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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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• invītus, a, um, adj. [perh. for in-vicitus; cf. Sanscr. va?*!-, to will; ava?*!as, unwilling; Gr. ἑκών, ἀ-έκων], against one's will, unwilling, reluctant (syn. coactus; class.).
  1. I. Of persons: invitus me vides, Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 23: ut viatores invitos consistere cogant, Caes. B. G. 4, 5: soli hoc contingit sapienti, ut nihil faciat invitus, nihil dolens, nihil coactus, Cic. Par. 5, 1: ego eum a me invitissim us dimisi, very unwillingly, very much against my will, id. Fam. 13, 63: Berenicen ab urbe dimisit (Titus) invitus invitam, Suet. Tit. 7: trahit invitam nova vis, Ov. M. 7, 19.— Abl. absol.: me (te, se, etc.) invito, against my (your, his, etc.) will, in spite of me, without my consent: vobis invitis, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 7: si se invito transire conarentur, against his will, Caes. B. G. 1, 8: Sequanis invitis, id. ib. 1, 9: diis hominibusque invitis, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2: invito numine, Verg. A. 10, 31: invita Diana, Ov. M. 8, 395: invitā Minervā, against one's natural bent, Hor. A. P. 385: invita Minerva, id est adversante et repugnante natura, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110: quod et illo et me invitissimo fiet, altogether contrary both to his inclination and my own, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 9. — With ut: invitus feci, ut L. Flaminium e senatu eicerem, Cic. de Sen. 12, 42.—With gen.: credidit, dominum non invitum fore hujus solutionis, would not be ill pleased with this payment, Dig. 16, 3, 11.—
  2. II. Of things: invita in hoc loco versatur oratio, Cic. N. D. 3, 35, 85: invitae properes anni spem credere terrae, Verg. G. 1, 224: verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur, Hor. A. P. 311: dantur in invitos impia tura focos, Ov. H. 14, 26: lyra, id. Am. 3, 9, 24: ignes, id. M. 8, 514: oculis legere, id. H. 18, 4; cf.: vultu prospicere, Val. Fl. 7, 575: ope, i. e. furnished involuntarily, Ov. P. 2, 1, 16: invito sanguine, Val. Fl. 3, 391. — Adv.: invītē, against one's will, unwillingly: invite cepi Capuam, Cic. Att. 8, 3, 4 (dub.).— Comp.: invitius, Cic. de Or. 2, 89, 364.