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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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• touch-stone:
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. cōtĭcŭla: Plin. 33, 8, 43.
      2. 2. lapis Heraclius Lydius: ib.
      3. 3. index, ĭcis, m.: Ov. Met. 2, 706.
      4. 4. *schistus Lydius: Linn. Phr.: after applying the t., postquam indicium est factum, Vitr. 9, 3.
    2. II. Fig.: obrussa (a testing of gold): reason must be used as a t., adhibenda tanquam obrussa ratio, Cic. Brut. 74, 258: to apply the t. to arguments, argumenta ad obrussam exigere, Sen. Q. N. 4, 5.
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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• TOUCH-STONE
  • PROP., coticula: lapis Lydius (Plin.); “schistus Lydius (Linn.).
  • Figuratively, obrussa alicujus rei (Cic., Sen.); lex, norma, qua spectetur, ad quam exigatur, aliquid. To apply a touch-stone to anything, aliquid ad obrussam exigere (Sen.): this is a touch-stone for anything, haec est alicujus rei obrussa (Sen.).