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

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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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• nervous:
    1. I. Full of sinewy vigour: nervōsus: Cic. Br. 31, fin. (quis Aristotele nervosior?): or expr. by nervi, orum: v. nerve (II.).
    2. II. Having much nervous susceptibility: Phr.: to feel extremely n. and shaky, tota mente atque omnibus artubus contremiscere, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121: in sim. sense, trepidare (to be in an agitated state): cf. Pl. Cas. 2, 7, 9, ut ille trepidabat, ut festinabat miser! (v. to tremble; agitated): of a n. temperament, *ingenio nimis trepido atque anxio: qui facilius quam opus est animo commoveri et trepidare solet.
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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• NERVOUS
  • Of or belonging to the nerves, nervosus. Nervous system, nervi (the nerves, as Cels., 1, praef., p. 23, Bip., validi nervi an infirmi; i. e., a strong or weak nervous system): a nervous disease, nervorum morbus (not morbus nerveus): nervous fever, febris nervosa.
  • Strong in nerve, nervosus (PROP.; then figuratively = strong, powerful; of style, of an orator, etc. ☞ Only in very late Latin for powerful or vigorous in body): lacertosus, robustus, validus (muscular, robust, strong in body; of men and animals): quibusdam nervis intentus (figuratively, strong, vigorous; of style, etc.): vibrans (figuratively, of style, of ideas). In a nervous manner, nervose (e.g., dicere).
  • Weak in the nerves, aeger nervis (Tac., Ann., 15, 45, 3): nervis infirmis (after Cels., 1, praef., p. 23, Bip.): *nervis infirmis or resolutis laborans. A nervous state of body, nervorum valetudo (Suet., Vesp., 7); nervi infirmi (Cels. 1, praef., p. 23, Bip.; opposed to nervi validi): a nervous frame, corpus propter nervorum valetudinem collapsum (after Suet., Vesp., 7, and Verg., Georg., 3, 485).