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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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• lie (v.): correl. to lay (q. v.):
    1. I. To be in a horizontal position: jăceo, ui 2 (usu. of inanimate things; but also of persons, to denote a temporary position): the apples l. beneath the tree, j. sub arbore poma, Virg. E. 7, 54. to l. on the ground to do anything, j. humi ad aliquid faciendum, Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 26: for sleep, Liv. 21, 4.
    2. II. To rest in a recumbent posture: cŭbo, ui, ĭtum, 1: to l. in a litter, in lectica c., Cic. Verr. 4, 23, 51: to l. on one's face, one's back, in faciem, supinum c., Juv. 3, 280: oft. with ref. to illness: v. ill (to be). Comps. recŭbo, recumbo; accŭbo, accumbo (the forms in cumbo denoting the act; those in cubo the state): v. to recline. Frequent. cubito, 1 (rare): Pl.: Cic.
    3. III. To be deposited in a grave: Phr.: here lies he, hic est ille situs, Enn. in Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57: Liv.: on tombs, often abbreviated thus, H. S. E. = hic situs est: v. Forcell. s. v. (Hic jacet appears to be a modernism.)
    4. IV. To be situated:
      1. 1. expr. by sĭtus, pŏsĭtus: v. situated.
      2. 2. jăceo, 2 (rare): this country l.s beyond Cappadocia, quae gens j. supra Cappadociam, Nep. Dat. 4: Plin.
      3. 3. specto, 1: v. to look towards.
    5. V. Milit. t. t., to be in quarters: Phr.: to l. encamped anywhere, alicubi stativa habere, Liv. 2, 52, med.: with the notion of inaction, milites stativis castris habere, Sall. Jug. 44.
    6. VI. To depend upon: Phr.: as far as in me l.s, quantum in me est, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, init.; quantum est situm in nobis, id. Arch. 1, 1; quantum potero (with ref. to the future), id. Fam. 5, 13, fin.; pro virili parte, id. Sext. 68, init. (pro viribus = in proportion to your powers, Cic. Sen. 9, 27): you know how much l.s in speed, scis quantum sit in celeritate, id. Br. 1, 15, fin.
    7. VII. To consist: Phr.: contĭneor, tentus, 2 (to be involved, bound up in): in this one virtue l. all the rest, hac una virtute omnes virtutes continentur, Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 150 (v. to bind up, II.): the point where a cause really l.s, cardo causae, Quint. 5, 12, 3.
    8. VIII. To be sustainable in law: compĕto., īvi, ītum, 3: an action for theft will l., furti actionem c., Ulp. Dig. 47, 2, 45. (The same sense may be expr. by actionem habere, the subject being the person who brings the action, ib. § 41.) Phr.: here no action for theft can l., haec furti non admittunt actionem, ib. § 36.