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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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  • PROP., merces, -edis (of a laborer): nanus pretium: manupretium: pretium laboris or operae. To pay wages, mercedem alicui dare, tribuere, persolvere; pretium operae alicui solvere: to receive wages, mercedem accipere ab aliquo: good wages, merces magna (Cic.), digna (Col.): poor, low wages, merces iniqua (Cic.): fair wages, aequa laboris merces (Cic.): to fix the rate of wages mercedem alicujus rei constituere (Cic.): to offer high wages, magnam mercedem alicui proponere (Cic.): to ask for wages, mercedem alicujus rei poscere; laboris mercedem petere: to serve for wages, operas suas locare alicui (Plin., Ep., 10, 55, 1).
  • Figuratively, merces (Liv.); pretium (Terentianus): (in a bad sense) poena, supplicium (Cic.).