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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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• ĭn-augŭro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a.
  1. I. Lit. To take omens from the flight of birds, to practise augury, to divine: per sacram viam augures ex arce profecti solent inaugurare, Varr. L. L. 5, § 47 Müll.: impetritum, inauguratum'st: quovis admittunt aves, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 11: Palatinum Romulus, Aventinum Remus ad inaugurandum templa capiunt, Liv. 1, 6, 4: agedum, divine tu, inaugura, fierine possit, quod nunc ego mente concipio, Liv. 1, 36, 4. —Hence, b. inaugŭrāto, adv. (lit. abl. absol.), after consulting the birds: id quia inaugurato Romulus fecerat, Liv. 1, 36, 3: consecrare locum, id. 1, 44, 4.—
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. To give a certain sanctity to a place or (official) person by ceremony of consulting the flight of birds, to consecrate, inaugurate, install: locum, Liv. 3, 20, 6: VRBEM (Romulus) Calend. Praenest. ap. Inscr. Orell. 2, p. 386: cur non inaugurare? Sume diem; vide, qui te inauguret, Cic. Phil. 2, 43, 110: augur in locum ejus inauguratus est filius, Liv. 30, 26, 10; so, aliquem flaminem, id. 27, 8, 4; 41, 28, 7.—
    2. B. In gen., to install: cena et poculis magnis inauguratur (dux latronum), App. M. 7, p. 191: comitia, quae habentur aut regis aut flaminum inaugurandorum causa, Lab. ap. Gell. 15, 27, 1: si flamines Diales inaugurentur, Gai. Inst. 1, 130.