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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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• lay (v.):
    1. I. To place: pōno, 3: v. to place; and foll. artt.
    2. II. To fix down, establish. Phr.: to l. the foundations, fundamenta jacere (v. foundation). Fig.: to l. one's plans, rationem capere (foll. by ut), Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11; so, r. inire, ib. 4, 2, 7. See also, to form (V.).
    3. III. To prostrate: sterno, strāvi, tum, 3: Virg. Aen. 2, 306 (but the expr. is more emphatic than the Eng.).
    4. IV. To deposit eggs:
      1. 1. părio, pĕpĕri, partum, 3: both with ovum, e. g. Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 57; and absol. Col. 8, 5, init.: Varr. So partŭrio, 4 to be about to l., Col. l. c.
      2. 2. ēdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (to deposit eggs; whereas pario may include the whole breeding process): they begin to l. about Jan. 1, circa Kal. Jan. ova e. incipiunt, Col. l. c.: also, edere fetus, id. 8, 11, med.
      3. 3. ēnītor, sus and xus, 3 (lit. to strain out: less freq. than preced.). with ova, Col. 8, 11, med.; also absol., ib. paulo ante.
      4. 4. as pass. nascor, nātus, 3: to gather up eggs that have been laid, quae nata sunt (ova) recolligere, Col. 8, 5, ad init.: Varr. (Cic. has, ova gignere, of the spawning of fish, N. D. 2, 51, fin.; Ov., ova ponere, Met. 8, 258, poet.)
    5. V. Miscell. Phr.: to l. the dust, pulverem sedare, Phaedr. 2, 5, 18. to l. snares, plagas (retia, etc.) tendere, Cic. Off. 3, 17, init.; ponere, Virg. G. 1, 307: to l. siege, obsīdĕre, obsĭdēre (v. to besiege, siege): to l. (violent) hands on any one, [vim et] manus alicui inferre (v. hand, 1, ii.) whatever one could l. hands on, quod cuique temere ad manum venisset, Liv. 38, 21. he laid (the remark) to heart more than any one would have thought, quod verbum in pectus (ejus) altius quam quisquam ratus erat, descendit, Sall. Jug. 11: to l. a thing well to heart, aliquid in pectus demittere, Sall. Jug. 102, ad fin.; in pectus animumque demittere, Liv. 34, 50: incumbere ad aliquid toto pectore (implying earnest pursuit), Cic. Fam. 10, 10: to l. waste, vasto (v. to devastate) to l. blame upon (v. blame, II.). See also foll. artt.