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

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Contents (2 entries · 6 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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• terse:
      1. 1. pressus (free from superfluous ornament): less t. than the dignity of history demands, minus p. quam historiae auctoritas postulat, Quint. 10, 1, 102: forcible and t. in style, verbis aptus et p., Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 56.
      2. 2. tersus (pure, neat): t. and polished, t. ac limatus, Quint. 12, 10, 50: so of Horace, 10, 1, 94: Plin.
      3. 3. astrictus (compressed: opp. to remissus): concise and t. eloquence, contracta et a. eloquentia, Cic. Brut. 90, 309.
      4. 4. strictus: Quint. 12, 10, 52: so too constrictus, v. concise, COMPRESSED.
      5. 5. densus: t. and brief, d. et brevis, Quint. 10, 1, 73: v. brief.
      6. 6. angustus (simple, short): Cic. Or. 56, 187 (a. atque concisus, opp. to collatatus (?) ac diffusus). Phr.: to be t., plura paucis complecti, Quint. 8, 3, 82.
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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• TERSE
tersus (Quint.; e.g., auctor tersior est Hor.); pressus: brevis: sententiis densus: creber. SYN. in CONCISE.