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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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• pierce:
    1. I. To bore through:
      1. 1. perfŏro, 1 (to make a hole through): to p. a ship, navem p., Cic. in Quint. 8, 6, 47: to p. any one's side with a sword, latus ense p., Ov. Tr. 3, 9, 26: lights (passages for light) p.d from the soul to the eyes, lumina ab animo ad oculos perforata, Cic. N. D. 3, 4, 9. (Less freq., effŏro, 1, Col. 9, 1, ad init.; and simple verb, fŏro, 1, id. 5, 10, ad fin.: Macr.)
      2. 2. perfŏdio, fōdi, ssum, 3 (to dig through; to stab): Cic.: Virg.
      3. 3. pungo, 3: v. to prick, puncture.
      4. 4. tĕrebro, pertĕrebro, 1: v. to bore. Phr the shield was found p.d with 120 holes, inventa sunt in scuto foramina cxx., Caes. B. C. 3, 53: v. hole.
    2. II. To wound, transfix: confŏdio, transfŏdio, trājĭcio, etc.: v. to stab, transfix.
    3. III. To affect keenly: Phr.: a guilty conscience, p.s [stings], mens sibi conscia stimulos adhibet, Lucr. 3, 1032: that remark p.d his heart, descendit hoc verbum in pectus ejus, cf. Sall. Jug. 11: to be p.d with especial grief, praecipuo dolore angi, Cic. Fam. 4, 3 they were p.d (pricked) to the heart, compuncti sunt corde, Vulg. Act. ii. 37.
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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• PIERCE
  • To bore through, perforare (general term to make a hole through, pectora, latus ense, etc.; also, to pierce [= make] windows, lumina, Cic.): forare (post-Augustan, very rare): efforare (only Col., truncum): terebrare (with a borer or otherwise): perterebrare (with a borer).
  • To stick anything through, trajicere, transfodere, confodere, configere, transverberare (e.g., venabulo): percutere. To pierce anybody with a sword, alicui latus transfodere gladio; aliquem gladio transfigere (poetically, alicujus pectus gladio or ferro haurire): with a dagger, aliquem sica conncere, aliquem pugione percutere (for which Tac. has fodere only): one’s heart with a knife, cultrum in corde alicujus defigere.
  • ImPROP., to wound deeply (e.g., the heart), percutere, vulnerare.