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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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• freedom:
    1. I. Liberty:
      1. 1. lībertas: (a). political and general: to bestow f. on a slave, dare l. servo, Cic.: to lose one's f., perdere l., Pl.: Cic.: no Roman citizen can lose his f. unless he himself authorize the proceeding, nemo civis Romanus l. potest amittere, nisi ipse auctor sit factus, Cic.: to take away a man's f., l. alicui adimere, Cic.: to assert one's f., se in libertatem vindicare, Cic.: to recover f., l. recuperare, Caes.: it is the peculiarity of f. to live as you choose, libertatis proprium est, vivere ut velis, Cic. (b). exemption from burdens: f. of a house from taxation, aedium l., Dig. (c). f. of speech: to satirize with great f., multa cum l. notare, Hor.: to pay the penalty of f. of speech, libertatis poenas pendere, Justin: v. frankness, licence.
      2. 2. cīvĭtas (implying privilege as well as mere liberty): v. citizenship. Phr.: a suit affecting the f. of a citizen, liberalis causa, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 40; liberale judicium, Quint. 6, 3, 32: v. free, (I., fin.): there exists f. of thought and speech, sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet, Tac. H. 1, 1: hence, f. of the press, *libertas quae sentias in publicum proferendi: to give advice with f., audacter monere, Ter. (v. frankly).
    2. II. Release, exemption from:
      1. 1. văcātio (esp. legal exemption): f. from expense, toil, military service, in short from everything, v. sumptus, laboris, militiae, rerum denique omnium, Cic. Verr. 4, 10, 23: in gen. sense, f. from evils, v. malorum, Sen.: with ab: f. from causes (at law), v. a causis, Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 12.
      2. 2. immūnĭtas (from dues or duties): v. exemption.
      3. 3. expr. by căreo, văco: v. free (II., fin.): e. g., in this way you will secure f. from many annoyances, *ita multis vacabis molestiis.
    3. III. Freedom of manner and bearing: *ingenui ac liberales mores: v. ingenuousness, ease.