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

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Contents (2 entries · 7 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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• stool:
    1. I. A low seat:
      1. 1. scăbellum (strictly, for stepping on to a bed or couch, from scando): Varr. L. L. 5, 35, 168: Quint.
      2. 2. sellŭla (any small seat): v. seat.
    2. II. A close-s.: sella pertūsa: Cato R. R. 157: called also, s. familiarica, Varr. R. R. 1, 13, med.: and simply, sella, Scrib.
    3. III. Euphemistically, evacuation by the bowels:
      1. 1. alvus, i, f.: watery, pale-coloured, black s.s, a. liquida, pallida, nigra, Cels. 2, 6, med.: to promote s.s, alvos elicere, Plin.
      2. 2. expr. by circuml., quod descendit, quod excernitur: Cels. 2, 4, extr. Phr.: to go to s., ventrem exonerare, Suet. Vesp. 20: corpus ex., Sen. Ep. 70, 17: alvum ex., Plin. 10, 44, 61 (de avibus): ad requisita naturae discedere (to go aside for the purpose), Spart. Carac. 6: more coarsely, cacare, Hor.: Mart.
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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• STOOL
  • A low seat, sellula (Tac.): sedecula (Cic.): subsellium: scabellum (a foot-stool).
  • Natural evacuation of the bowels, alvus. To go to stool, alvum exonerare (Plin.): necessitati or naturae parere; secedere ad exonerandum corpus (Sen., Ep., 70, 17). To have a stool, alvum dejicere (Cic.), solvere, exinanire (Cels.).