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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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• ē-vinco, vici, victum, 3, v. a. (not anteAug.).
  1. I. To overcome completely, to conquer, vanquish: evicit omnia assuetus praedae miles, Liv. 10, 17 fin.: imbelles, Aeduos, Tac. A. 3, 46.—
    1. B. Transf. beyond the milit. sphere (freq.): lacrimis evicta, overcome, Verg. A. 4, 548: dolore, to induce, id. ib. 4, 474: precibus, Ov. F. 3, 688; Tac. A. 4, 57 fin.: blandimentis vitae, id. ib. 15, 64: donis, i. e. to bribe, id. ib. 12, 49 et saep.: in gaudium evicta domus, moved, Tac. H. 2, 64 fin.; cf.: ad miserationem, id. A. 11, 37: oppositas moles gurgite (amnis), Verg. A. 2, 497.—Of dangerous places, to pass by in safely: Charybdin remis (rates), Ov. M. 14, 76: fretum, id. ib. 15, 706: aequora, id. H. 18, 155: litora (Ponti), id. Tr. 1, 10, 33: os Ponti, Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 98: nubes (solis imago), Ov. M. 14, 769: somnos, id. ib. 1, 685: morbos, Col. 6, 5, 2: dolorem (with perferre), Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 36: superbiam (miseratio), Liv. 9, 6: luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos, vanquished, i. e. from which it has struggled free, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 2. platanus caelebs Evincet ulmos, i. e. will supplant them, Hor. C. 2, 15, 5; cf.: evincit herbas lupinum, Plin. 18, 21, 50, § 185.—Less freq.,
  2. II. To carry one's point, to prevail, succeed in a thing.
    1. A. In gen., with ut: evincunt instando, ut, etc., Liv. 2, 4, 3; 38, 9, 7; so, id. 3, 41; 5, 26; Suet. Tib. 37.—With rel.-clause, Val. Fl. 1, 248.—
      1. 2. In partic., jurid. t. t., to recover one's property by judicial decision: sive tota res evincatur sive pars, etc., Dig. 21, 2; 1 sq.; cf. Cod. Just. 8, 45, and v. evictio.—*
    2. B. Transf., for convinco (2. β), to succeed in proving, to demonstrate, evince: si puerilius his ratio esse evincet amare, will evince, Hor. S. 2, 3, 250.