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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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• keep (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To hold; not to let go:
      1. 1. tĕneo, ui, ntum, 2: to k. a position, locum t., Caes. B. C. 1, 44, extr.: v. to hold, retain. So comps. (1.) contĭneo (stronger than teneo: to k. hold upon): to seize more easily than to k., expeditius rapere quam c., Curt. 4, 11, med.: to k. in allegiance, in fide c., Liv. 28, 2, fin.: to k. employed, in exercitatione c., Cic. Fam. 7, 19. (2.) rĕtĭneo (esp. as opp. to the notion of sending away, giving up): to k. legions near the capital, [reservare et] r. legiones ad urbem, Caes. B. C. 1, 2: to k. to allegiance, in fide r., Liv. 25, 40, med.: Cic. (3.) attĭneo (rare in this sense): Tac.
      2. 2. servo, 1 (esp. in danger or difficulty): to k. rank, s. ordines, Caes. B. G. 4, 26: very often with reference to moral obligation: Caes.: Cic.: v. infr. (III.). So comps. (1.) asservo, 1 (esp. to k. in custody): to be kept in prison, in carcerem asservari, Liv. 8, 20, med.: also, a. aliquem vinctum, Ter. Andr. 5, 2, 24; or simply, asservare, Cic. Verr. 3, 22, 55. (2.) conservo, 1 (strengthened from servo): to k. (their) original temper towards the Roman people, pristinum animum erga P. R. cons., Liv. 31. 2: esp. with ref. to obligation (v. infr. V.). (3.) rĕservo, 1: v. to reserve.
      3. 3. custōdio, 4 (under watch and d): Fig.: to k. a book most carefully librum diligentissime c., Cic. Fam 6, 5.
      4. 4. hăbeo, 2 (laying less stress on the idea of retention; esp. to have in a certain state): to k. any one blockaded, aliquem in obsidione h., Caes. B. G. 3, 31: to k. in one's power, in potestatem (al. potestate) h., Caes. B. C. 1, 25: Sall.: to k. sick patients in the dark, aegros in tenebris h., Cels. 3, 18, ad init. Esp. in phr., sibi secum h., to k. to oneself, Cic. Ph. 2, 28, 69: fig. of keeping a close secret, id. Fam. 7, 25. So cŏhĭbeo (stronger than simple verb, and implying restraint): k. yourselves indoors, cohibete intra limen vos, Pl.: v. to restrain.
    2. II. To store up: condo, rĕcondo, custōdio: v. to store, preserve.
    3. III. To support, preserve. servo, conservo: v. to preserve.
    4. IV. To have, rear animals:
      1. 1. ălo, ui, tum, 3: to k. hounds, a. canes ad venandum, Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 30: Varr.. Non.
      2. 2. pasco, pavi, pastum, 3: to k. nags, grooms, caballos, calones p., Hor. S. 1, 6, 104: Cic. Off. 2, 4, 14: Juv. (Alo includes the breeding and rearing of animals; pasco denotes simply the supplying of them with food.)
    5. V. Fig.: to observe, adhere to:
      1. 1. servo, 1: to k. faith, one's promise, fidem s., Caes. B. G. 6, 36; promissa s.: Cic. Off. 1, 10, 32: to k. the commandments, mandata s., Vulg. Matt. xix. 17. In same sense, conservo: to k. an oath, jusjurandum c., Cic. Off. 3, 28, 103: to k. a law, legem c., Quint. 9, 2, 83.
      2. 2. custōdio, 4 (to keep carefully: not in Cic.): to k. a rule, regulam c., Quint. 1, 7, 1: Col.
      3. 3. exsolvo, solvi, sŏlūtum, 3 (to discharge an obligation): to k. an oath, a promise, jusjurandum exsolvere, Liv. 24, 18; fidem ex., id. 26, 31, fin.
    6. VI. In phr., to k. accounts: tabulas conficere, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 23: also, codicem instituere, conscribere, id. R. Com. 2, 6. Miscell. Phr.: to k. one's bed (from sickness), jacere, cubare (v. ill, to be); from inclination, lectulo (lecto) contineri, Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 4: to k. one's house, domi se retinere, Nep. Epam. 10: to k. a school, docere, Suet. Gr. pass.; scholam tueri, ib. 8: k. a thing secret, celare, with double acc. (v. to keep back): to k. the company waiting, convivas morari, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 120: to k. a day as an annual holiday, festum diem anniversarium agere, Cic. Verr. 4, 48, extr.: in same sense, agitare, Cic. ib. 2, 63, 154 (v. to observe). See also foll. artt.
  2. B. Intrans.:
    1. I. To remain without being spoiled:
      1. 1. expr. by servo (pass.): all these k. well, with the same mode of preserving, haec omnia una conditura commode servantur, Col. 12, 7.
      2. 2. dūro, 1: to k. through the winter (of grapes), d. per hiemes, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 16. So, grapes that will k. through the winter, uvae hiemis temporibus durabiles, Col. 3, 2, init.
    2. II. To remain: q. v. See also foll. artt.