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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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• governor:
    1. I. One exercising supreme power:
      1. 1. gŭbernātor: ruler and g. of a state, rector et g. civitatis, Cic.
      2. 2. rector: v. ruler.
    2. II. One exercising delegated authority:
      1. 1. proconsul, ŭlis (in Cic. separately, pro consule): i. e. the g. of a Roman province; under the emperors of a senatorian province: Tac.: Sall. fr.: v. proconsul.
      2. 2. lĕgātus (the g. of an imperial province): Tac. Ann. 12, 40 ("at Caesar cognita morte legati ne provincia sine rectore foret"): Suet.
      3. 3. prōcūrātor (of a smaller province, a division of a province): Pontius Pilate the g., P. Pilatus p., Tac. Ann. 15, 44.
      4. 4. praefectus (esp. the g. of Egypt): pr. Aegypti, Suet. Vesp. 6 Ulp.: applied to the Persian satraps, e. g., pr. Lydiae, Ioniae, totiusque Phrygiae, Nep. Dat. 2, fin. (The best word for a modern g. of a country or province.)
      5. 5. sătrăpes, is; pl. satrapae (Persian title for viceroy): v. satrap. Phr.: to be g. of: (1) praesum, fui (with dat.): to be the g. of a province, provinciae pr., Sall.: Cic.: also absol., praeesse in provincia, Cic. Verr. 3, 77, 180. (2) obtĭneo, ui, tentum, 2 (to be in possession of a province: with acc. or absol.) to be g. of Hither Spain, cum imperio Citeriorem Hispaniam ob., Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 4: while I was g., me obtinente, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 4. (3) admĭnistro, 1: v. to administer. To make g.: (1) praefĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3 (with acc. and dat.): to make any one g. of a province, aliquem provinciae pr., Tac.: Cic. (2) praepōno, pŏsui, ĭtum, 3 (same constr.): to make any one g. of a province, aliquem provinciae pr., Cic.: Caes.: v. to appoint (I.).