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

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• quibble, quibbling (subs.):
      1. 1. captio, f.: dialectic q.s, c. dialecticae, Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17: to answer q.s, captiones refellĕre, Cic. Fat. 13, 30 c. discutere, id. Acad. 2, 15, 46: and dim. captiuncŭla, f.: id. Att. 15, 7: v. sophism: adv., to speak in q.s, captĭose dicere: to use contemptible q.s, cf. quo nihil captiosius potest dici, id. Rosc. Com. 17, 52.
      2. 2. căvilla, f. (very rare): come, no quibbling! aufer cavillam! Pl. Aul. 4, 4, 11: deriv. căvillātio, f.: a q. about a name, nominis c., Suet. Gramm. 3: cf. c. infelix verborum, Quint. 10, 7, 14: cavillationes ineptae, id. 7, 9, 4: sine metu cavillationis, id. 2, 14, 5: cf. quirk.
      3. 3. călumnia, f.: cf. res ab adversariis nostris extracta est variis calumniis, Cic. Fam. 4, 1.
      4. 4. ambāges, ium, f. pl.: leave off q.g and attend to me, ambages mitte atque hoc age, Pl. Cist. 4, 2, 81: to invent, or hunt up childish q.s, cf. vix pueris dignas amb. exquirere, Liv. 9, 11, fin.
      5. 5. argūtĭŏla, f., Gell. 9, 14, fin.
      6. 6. sŏphisma, ătis, n. (= captio in later writers): Gell. 18, 13.
      7. 7. quaestiuncŭla vafra: Sen. Ep. iii. 1.
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• quibble (v.):
      1. 1. calvor, 3, dep. (obsol.): SI.CALVITUR.PEDEMVE.STRUIT., Fragm. xii. Tab. in Fest. s. v. struere: Gai. Dig. 50, 16, 233: cf. to q. on the resemblance of words, te vocis calvi similitudine, Pac. in Non. 6, 29: Pass. Impers. cf. contra ille calvi ratus, Sall. Hist. Fragm. ib. 7, 8.
      2. 2. căvillor, ātus, dep.: cf. cavillari tum tribuni, Liv. 3, 20: verba patrum cavillantem (quibbling about), Tac. A. 1, 46: captiose dicere, v. sup. s. quibble (subs.).
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.