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

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• float (v.):
  1. A. Intrans.:
    1. I. to be suspended in fluid:
      1. 1. fluĭto, 1: a ship f.ing (drifting about) on the sea, navis fluitans in alto, Cic. Sext. 20, 46: in lake Apuscidamus everything f.s, in lacu A. omnia f., Plin. 31, 2, 18: the head of Orpheus f.'d down the sad Hebrus, Orphei caput tristi fluitavit Hebro, Ov.: Liv.
      2. 2. năto, 1 (to swim: q.v.): the greased hull f.s, n. uncta carina, Virg. Of aerial motion, Lucan, 5, 554.
      3. 3. innăto, 1 (to f. in or into something: with various constr.): a pond in which nothing will f., stagnum in quo nihil innatet, Plin. 31, 2, 18 (in Cic. innato is to f. or swim into, foll. by in and acc.: N. D. 2, 48, 123): with acc. (poet.): the alder f.s upon the wave, undam i. alnus, Virg. G. 2, 451.
      4. 4. inno, 1 (with dat.): provided only they (the canoes) would f., dummodo i. aquae possent, Liv. 21, 26, fin.: Virg. Aen. 8, 93 (but in and abl. would be the more usu. prose sequence).
      5. 5. fluctuo, fluctuor, (strictly, to toss about on the waves: cf. Cic. Verr. 5, 35, 91): some islands are always f.ing about, quaedam insulae semper fluctuant, Plin. 2, 95, 96: wood f.s, lignum fluctuatur, Plin. 16, 38, 73.
    2. II. To hang loosely:
      1. 1. pendeo, pĕpendi, pensum, 2: the clouds f. in the air, p. nubila, Virg. G. 1, 214: a swan was f.ing in the air, olor pendebat in aëre, Ov.
      2. 2. vŏlĭto, invŏlĭto, 1: her hair f.s upon her shoulders, comae inv. humeris, Hor. Od. 4, 10, 3: black ashes f. in the cloud, atra favilla in nimbo v., Virg.: v. to hover.
      3. 3. fluo, xi, xum, 3: locks f.ing over the smooth breast, comae per levia colla fluentes, Prop.
  2. B. Trans.: to cause to float: Phr.: he f.s the ship down the river to Scodra, navem secundo amne Scodram demittit, Liv. 44, 31: the chest was f.'d towards the dark wood, alveus silvis appulsus opacis, Ov. F. 2, 407: to f. a vessel by bladders, *utriculis suppositis efficere ut fluitet navis.