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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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• harden:
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. Lit.: to make hard:
      1. 1. dūro, 1: to h. the hoofs (of a mule), ungulas d.: Col. 6, 37, fin.: Plin.: esp. in p. part.: snows h.'d on the ground, duratae solo nives, Hor.: Liv.
      2. 2. indūro, 1: the North wind h.s the snow, nivem ind. Boreas, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 14: to become h.'d, indurari, Plin. 31, 2, 8.
      3. 3. expr. by circuml. (aliquid) durius facere, reddere: v. to make.
    2. II. Fig.: to render hardy or callous:
      1. 1. dūro, 1: to h. the limbs, the mind, membra, animum d., Hor. S. 1, 4, 119: to h. an army by endurance of danger, patientia periculorum exercitum d., Vell. 2, 78: h.'d to every crime, ad omne scelus duratus, Tac.
      2. 2. indūro, 1: to h. the mind, animum ind., Sen. Ep. 51, 5. To become h.'d, obdurescere (to become callous, insensible): I have become quite h.'d to that, jam ad ista obduruimus, Cic. Att. 13, 2: also indurescere (to become confirmed), Quint. 1, 3, 12.
  2. B. Intrans.: to become hard:
      1. 1. dūesco, dūrui, 3: water h.s (in freezing), d. humor, Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26: Virg.: Tac.
      2. 2. indūresco, 3: before the grains of corn quite h., ante quam ex toto grana indurescant, Col. 2, 21, init.
      3. 3. obdūresco, 3 (more freq. in fig. sense): Cato: Varr. See also to congeal, curdle.