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

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Contents (2 entries · 3 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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• sagacity:
      1. 1. prūdentia (sensibleness): Plin. 8, 1, 1 (of elephants): cf. sagacious (1).
      2. 2. săgācĭtas (keen-tracking wit, resembling the instinct of hounds which track by scent): Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 41, 105: the s. of Hipparchus discovered ..., Hipparchi sagacitate repertum est, Plin. 2, 13, 10.
      3. 3. perspĭcācĭtas (sharp-sightedness): Cic.: v. penetration. Phr.: possessed of (great) s., prudens, alti ingenii, etc. (v. sagacious): wanting in s., hebes, tardus (tardioris ingenii): v. dull, slow.
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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• SAGACITY
sagacitas (power of tracing things to their causes; by metonymy, from hounds): ingenii acumen or acies (the former implying more of depth; of original and inventive ability), and acumen only: perspicacitas: prudentia perspicax (insight, taking in all at one glance): subtilitas (fine discrimination). To possess natural sagacity, natura acutum esse: such is his own sagacity, qua est ipse sagacitate.