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

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• wing (subs.):
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. āla: cocks clap their w.s, galli plausu premunt alas, Enn. in Cic. Div. 2, 26, 57: that they (the bees) may be able to spread their w.s to the summer sun, ut possint alas pandere ad aestivum solem, Virg. G. 4, 27.
      2. 2. pennae, ārum (feathers): birds keep their young warm beneath their w.s, aves pullos pennis fovent, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129: to unfold the w.s, explicare pennas, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 55: bees shake their w.s, apes pennis coruscant, Virg. G. 4, 73. Fig.: those who had clipped my w.s would not have them grow again, qui mihi pennas inciderant nolunt easdem renasci, Cic. Att. 4, 2, 5: to be on the w., volare: v. to fly.
    2. II. Fig.: (i.) the wing of an army:
      1. 1. cornu (extremity, w. of an army): the enemy's line was repulsed on the left w., hostium acies a sinistro cornu pulsa est, Caes. B. G. 1, 52.
      2. 2. āla (prop. the cavalry stationed on the wing): the right w., dextera ala, Liv. 27, 2. Phr.: the cavalry on the w., alarii equites, Liv. 40, 40. (ii.) the wing of a building: āla: Vitr. 6, 4, 28.
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• wing (v.): Phr.: to w. one's way through the air, aerias carpere vias, Ov. A. A. 2, 44.
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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• WING
  • PROP., ala. Wings, alae; pennae (alae is used also of insects; pennae only of birds; according to Quint., 1, 4, 12, pinnae for pennae is wrong): to have wings, alatum esse (poetical, PROP.); volare (figuratively, of time): to clip the wings, pennas alicui incidere (PROP. and figuratively; Cic., Att., 4, 2, 5): to clip his wings, alas intervellere (i. e., pluck some of the feathers out; IMPROP.; Plaut.): the wings grow again, pennae renascuntur (PROP. and figuratively).
  • Figuratively, (a) Of an army, cornu (a wing of the main army of the Roman legions): ala (one of the wings of the cavalry and allies which extended beyond the Roman legions; Vid: Gell., 16, 4): The troops which formed the wings, alarii; so, also, alariae cohortes (Vid: commentators on Caes., B.G., 1, 51): to be in the right wing, to form the right wing, dextrum cornu tenere; in dextro cornu consistere: to attack the left wing, invadere sinistrum cornu. (b) A side building of a house, tectum quod est viae junctum (a building projecting from the main building toward the street, Gell., 16, 5): ala (one of the walks or halls on the right or left side of the court in a Roman house, Vitr. 4, 7, 2; 63, 4, sq.). To build another wing (to a building), accessionem adjungere aedibus. (c) Of a door, foris: valva (rarely in the sing.).