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

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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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  • v. To put, place, set, ponere (general term); locare, collocare (to give a definite plan to anything, with choice or purpose): to lay in or upon, ponere, collocare in aliqua re; imponere alicui rei, in aliquam rem, or in aliqua re; ponere super aliqua re; e.g., wood upon the hearth (lignum super foco): to lay under, supponere, subjicere alicui rei or sub aliquid: to lay to, apponere, applicare, admovere alicui rei or ad aliquid: to lay wood on the fire, alimentum dare igni; material igni praebere; flammam materia alere: to lay the hand on the mouth, manum ad os apponere: to lay one’s self down, cubare, decumbere (in order to sleep); accumbere (in order to take food; Vid: Bremi, Suet., Caes., 72): to lay one’s self down on or in anything, recumbere in aliqua re; se abjicere in aliquid (☞ not in aliqua re; Vid: Cic., De Or., 1, 7, extr.): to lay a foundation, fundamenta agere (Cic.) or jacere (Cic.), PROP.; facere fundamenta, figuratively (Cic.): to lay an ambush, insidias locare, collocare, ponere [[and Vid: AMBUSH]: to lay a plot, moliri aliquid, [Vid: PLOT]: to lay siege, obsidere (inchoative: obsidere = obsessam tenere); obsidionem (urbi) inferre; operibus cingere: to lay violent hands on, manus alicui afferre; on one’s self, necem sibi consciscere: to lay waste, vastare devastare; populari: to lay a shoot, etc., propagare: to lay to heart, aliqua re moveri or commoveri; de aliqua re laborare; aliquid aegre ferre; aliquid in pectus, or in pectus animumque, demittere.
  • To beat down, as corn or grass, sternere.
  • To keep down, keep from rising, sedare: to lay the dust (humum conspergendo) sedare pulverem (Phaedrus).
  • To give or offer, as a wager, sponsionem facere (Cic.; with one, cum aliquo) pignore certare or contendere (cum aliquo, Nep., to lay a wager).
  • To exclude (an egg) from the body, (ovum) parere, gignere (Cic.), lacere (Varr.), edere (Plin.), ponere, eniti (Col.).
  • To spread (a snare), tendere (e.g., rete, plagas), PROP. and figuratively; (avibus) pedicas ponere (Verg.).
2. adj., laicus (ecclesiastical).