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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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• live (v.):
    1. I. To be alive:
      1. 1. vīvo, xi, ctum, 3: Pl.: Cic. Join: vivere ac spirare, Cic. Sext. 50, 108.
      2. 2. spīro, 1 (to breathe: q. v.): v. supr.
    2. II. To sustain life by food:
      1. 1. vīvo, 3 (with abl.): to l. on fish, piscibus v., Caes. B. G. 4, 10, fin.: Hor.
      2. 2. vescor, 3 (to use for food: with abl.): I l. on milk, cheese, flesh, lacte, caseo, carne vescor, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 90.
      3. 3. vitam tŏlĕro, 1 (with abl. of that on which: implying scant or homely fare): Col. 10, pref. See also to eat.
    3. III. To dwell in a certain place:
      1. 1. hăbĭto, 1: to l. under-ground, sub terra h., Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 95: to l. in any one's house, apud aliquem h., id.: to l. up three pair of stairs (in an attic), sub tegulis h., Suet. Gr. 9. Freq. with acc.: v. to inhabit.
      2. 2. vīvo, xi, ctum, 3 (prob. always with some reference to the manner of life): Conon l.d a great deal at Cyprus, Conon plurimum Cypri vixit, Nep. Chab. 3: to l. with (in the company of) any one, cum aliquo v., Cic. in Pis. 28, 68.
    4. IV. To spend one's life in a certain way:
      1. 1. vīvo, 3: esp. with such advv. as bene, honeste, turpiter, etc.: Cic. pass.: to l. in conformity with nature, v. convenienter naturae, Cic. Off. 3, 3, 13.
      2. 2. expr. by ăgo, dēgo, vīvo, with vitam, aetatem, etc.: to l. most virtuously and honourably, vitam sanctissime honestissimeque agere, Cic. Ph. 9, 7, 15: to l. most miserably, v. miserrimam degere, id. Sull. 27, 75: to l. in solitude, v. in solitudine agere, id. Fin. 3, 20, init.: also v. exigere, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 39: to l. safely, v. tutam vivere, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 47, 118 (a less freq. constr.): to l. a literary life, aetatem agere in litteris, id. Leg. 2, 1, 3: to l. all one's life free from pain, degere omnem aetatem sine dolore, id. Fin. 2, 35, 118: less freq. aetatem gerere, Sulp. in Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 2.
    5. V. To get one's living: v. livelihood.