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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 10 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• harshness:
    1. I. Of sounds:
      1. 1. aspĕrĭtas (soni): Tac. G. 3.
      2. 2. expr. by adj.: there is a h. about the sound, *nonnihil rauci, duri atque horridi, sonus habet: v. harsh.
    2. II. Of flavours: austērĭtas, ăcerbĭtas: v. sourness.
    3. III. Of behaviour:
      1. 1. aspĕrĭtas: to stand in dread of the h. of an uncle, avunculi a. vereri, Nep. Att. 5, init.: without h., yet not without strictness, sine a., nec sine severitate, Vell. 2, 89.
      2. 2. inclēmentia (unmercifulness; rare). Virg.
      3. 3. ăcerbĭtas v. bitterness, sourness.
      4. 4. saevĭtia: v. cruelty. See also severity.
    4. IV. Of style: dūrĭtas Join: duritas et severitas, Cic. Or. 16, fin. (Or expr. by adj.: v. harsh. IV.)
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• HARSHNESS
asperitas (roughness): acerbitas (bitterness, sour, oppressive nature or quality): iniquitas (oppressiveness, oppressing nature or quality; e.g., improper severity of a person). Harshness of character, animus durus, animi duritas, ingenium durum (hardness of heart): severitas dura (inexorable severity): animi atrocitas (inhumanity of disposition; opposed to humanitas et misericordia): austeritas (perhaps not prae-Augustan; of harshness to the taste, vini, etc.; also, austeritas nimia, Col., ; also, figuratively, with reference to colors unpleasantly dark, and to stern strictness of conduct; opposed to comitas, Quint.). You find no harshness of expression in Herodotus. Herodotus sine ullis salebris fluit.