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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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• ridge: no exact gen. equiv.: the nearest expr. are:--
      1. 1. sŭpercĭlium (brow, projecting r.): a lofty r., s. quoddam excelsum, Auct. B. Afr. 58: to stand at the bottom of the r., infimo s. stare, Liv. 27, 18: Virg.: v. brow.
      2. 2. expr. by dorsum (back) or jŭgum: v. chain (of mountains): he sends one legion by the same r., legionem unam eodem jugo mittit, Caes. B. G. 7, 45: a city lying along the r. of a hill, urbs porrecta in dorso montis, Liv. 1, 3: sometimes both words are connected: the unbroken r.s of the mountain chain, jugum quod montes inter se perpetuo dorso jungit, Liv. 41, 18: the top of the r. was almost level, dorsum ejus jugi prope aequum erat, Caes. B. G. 7, 44.
      3. 3. A r. between two furrows is called lira, or porca, Col. 2, 4, 8: also scamnum, ib. 2, 2, 25: Plin. Phr.: the collateral r.s (of a mountain), brachia, Plin. 5, 27, 27: the r.s of the Alps, culmina Alpium, Caes. B. G. 3, 2.
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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• RIDGE
  • Earth thrown up by the plough, porca (earth between narrow furrows): lira (earth between wide furrows).
  • The top of a mountain or hill, dorsum, jugum, montis (Caes., Liv.; ☞ not tergum collis or montis, which means the back or hinder part of a hill or mountain).
  • A line or chain of mountains, continuum montium jugum (Tac., Germ., 47); continuum montium dorsum (Liv., 41, 18); montes continui (Hor. Ep.), perpetui (Liv.): juga velut serie cohaerentia (Curt., 7, 3, 21); perpetuo jugo juncti colles (Mela, 1, 5, 3); jugum, quod montes perpetuo dorso inter se jungit (Liv., 41, 18); continuatio seriesque montium (after Cic.; Vid: Herzog, ad Caes., B.G., 7, 44).