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

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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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• dis-trĭbŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a., to divide, distribute (class.; cf.: divido, impertio, dispenso, participo, communico).
  1. I. Lit.: argentum, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 17: partiendum sibi ac latius distribuendum exercitum putavit, Caes. B. G. 3, 10 fin.: distribuisti partes Italiae, Cic. Cat. 1, 4, 9; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 8: reliquum populum distribuit in quinque classes, Cic. Rep. 2, 22; cf. id. Leg. 3, 3, 7; Ov. F. 6, 84: copias in tres partes, Caes. B. G. 6, 32, 3; id. B. C. 1, 55, 2: pueros in classes, Quint. 1, 2, 23: orbem in duodecim partes, Cic. Tusc. 1, 28 et saep.: milites circum familias conventus Campani, Caes. B. C. 1, 14 fin.; cf.: gladiatorias familias Capuam et in cetera municipia, Sall. C. 30 fin.: Numidas in hiberna in proximis Thessalis urbibus, Liv. 42, 67: legiones et auxilia provinciatim, Suet. Aug. 49: milites in legiones, Caes. B. C. 3, 4, 2; cf. Front. Strat. 4, 1, 43: gladiatores binos singulis patribus familiarum, distributed among them, apportioned to them, Cic. Att. 7, 14, 2: naves quaestori, legatis, praefectis, equitibus, Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 3 and 5: equos Germanis, id. ib. 7, 65 fin.: pecunias exercitui, id. B. C. 1, 39, 3 al.; cf. also: pecuniam in judices, Cic. Clu. 27, 74: naves in legiones, Tac. A. 2, 8: pecus viritim, Caes. B. G. 7, 71, 7: capita singula ex captivis toto exercitu praedae nomine, id. ib. 7, 89 fin.: Poenorum arma inter suos, Front. Strat. 4, 7, 12 et saep. Rarely of the distributing of a service among several: alterum (genus) emendi, quod praeterea civitatibus aequaliter esset distributum, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 70 Zumpt. —
  2. II. Of abstract objects: quae observata sunt in usu ac tractatione dicendi, haec partibus distributa sunt, Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 109; Quint. 9, 3, 93; cf. id. 9, 1, 34: meministis me ita distribuisse initio causam, Cic. Rosc. Am. 42: vitae opera hac (honesti) regulā, Sen. Ben. 7, 2.—Hence, distrĭ-būte, adv., orderly, methodically (very rare): neque distincte neque distribute scribere, Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7: distributius tractare, id. Inv. 2, 59, 177.