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

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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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• thorough-fare:
    1. I. A road through: pervium: a t. for armies, p. exercitibus, Tac. H. 3, 8: more usu. expr. by means of the adj. pervius, of which the preced. is the neut. used subst.: t.s, perviae transitiones, Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 67: v. passage, No. V.: a house through which there is a t., transitoria domus, Suet. Ner. 31 (as a name orig. given to the Golden Palace). Arcades, leading out from the forum as passages, are called Jani, in Cic. l. c.: cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 18: "no t.", fundula (defined in Varr. L. L. 5, 32, 40, § 145, as "a fundo, quod exitum non habeat ac pervium non est iter").
    2. II. A right of way: there were three legal t. t., iter, actus, via, Ulp. Dig. 8, 3, 1: the first was the mere right of passing through; the second implied the right of driving cattle, vehicles, etc.; the third implied the existence of a road through a man's property: cf. Cic. Caecin. 26, 74: v. Dict. Ant. 1030, "servitutes praediorum rusticorum." It may also be expr. by jus eundi et agendi, Ulp. Dig. 43, 8, 2, § 21: (or without et, Just. Inst. 4, 6, 2).