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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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• lose:
    1. I. To part with unintentionally; to let slip: āmitto, mīsi, ssum, 3: to l. one's wits along with one's wealth, consilium cum re a., Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10: to l. so good an opportunity, tantam occasionem a., ib. 3, 5, 58: Cic.: to l. sight of any one, aliquem e conspectu a., Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 2.
    2. II. To forfeit, experience loss of, in business, etc.:
      1. 1. perdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (implying entire loss or destruction of something valued): to l. (utterly) the fruits of industry, fructus industriae p., Cic. Fam. 4, 6: to l. a cause at law, causam p., Cic. R. Com. 4, init.: of losing at play, Ov. A. A. 1, 451. Stronger is deperdo, 3: Cic. Prov. Cons. 5, 11.
      2. 2. āmitto, 3 (often of accidental loss; whereas perdo is mostly to lose blamably or wilfully; also, amitto may imply the possibility of recovery: cf. supr. 1): to l. the franchise, civitatem a., Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 182: to l. a house by fire, domum incendio a., Suet. Cl. 6. (In Cic. R. Com. 4, init., occur both causam perdere [supr. 1], and causam amittere: the latter simply = causâ cadere, to be cast in a suit; the former, to lose it through misconduct in the defence.)
      3. 3. jactūram făcio, pătior. v. loss (II, 3).
    3. III. To suffer destruction of a part of the body or of life
      1. 1. pass. of căpio, 3. to l. one eye, altero oculo capi, Liv. 22, 2, extr.: having lost the use of eyes and ears, oculis et auribus captus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117: that has lost the use of reason, mente captus, Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 53. (N.B.--This use is most common in p. part.)
      2. 2. āmitto, 3: to l. (the use of) one's eyes, lumina a., Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114; aspectum a., ib. 1, 30, 73: to l. strength and flesh, vires et corpus a., Cic. Fam. 7, 26: to l. (or part with) life, vitam a., Cic.: Sall.
      3. 3. perdo, 3 (comp. supr. II., syn.): in his second campaign he lost his right hand, secundo stipendio dextram manum perdidit, Plin. 7, 28, 29.
    4. IV. To be bereaved of: āmitto, 3 Cic. Fam. 4, 6: Suet. (but filium amittere may also be used in sense I.: cf. Pl. Capt. prol. 23). See also to bereave.
    5. V. Milit. term to experience diminution of force:
      1. 1. āmitto, 3. Liv. 21, 38, med.: ib. 22, 3, init. (not used of loss by actual fighting). So to l. a town, oppidum a., Sall. Jug. 97: Cic.
      2. 2. dēsīdĕro, 1: in that battle he lost not more than 200 men, in eo proelio non amplius CC. milites desideravit, Caes. B. C. 3, 99: esp. pass., desiderari, to be lost or missing, id. B. G. 5, 23.
      3. 3. more freq. expr. by cădo, caedo, occīdo, etc. (when the loss is in actual fight): cf. Liv. 21, 29; 22, 7; et pass.
    6. VI. In pass., to be lost = to be destroyed, come to nought, be wasted:
      1. 1. pĕreo, 4, irr.: v. to perish.
      2. 2. intĕreo, 4, irr. (to come to nothing; be utterly lost): a drop of brine is lost in the vastness of the sea, i. magnitudine maris stilla muriae, Cic. Fin. 3, 14, init.: of money, to be lost or wasted, Nep. Them. 2: as exclam., interii (also, perii)! I am lost, ruined! Pl.: Ter.
      3. 3. excĭdo, di, 3 (lit. to drop out: hence to be wasted or thrown away): to be lost or spilt upon the ground, ex. aut in terram defluere, Cic. Am. 17, 58.
      4. 4. dēfluo, xi, xum, 3 (to be spent and wasted): cf. preced. ex.: Sall. Miscell. Phr.: trees l. their leaves, arboribus folia decidunt, cadunt; nudantur foliis arbores, (arbores) folia deperdunt, Plin. 16, 22, 34: to l. colour, pallescere (v. pale, to become); of persons, sanguine ex ore decedente pallescere, Gell. 19, 4 (see also to fade). to l. one's way, errare, less freq. deerro, Cic. (v. to wander; astray): to l. hope, l. heart, animo cadere, animum despondere (v. to discourage, despond): to l. a throne, regno excidere, Curt. 10, 5, ad fin.: everything here has lost interest, hic omnia jacent, Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 3: to l. sight of land, (terram) abscondere (poet.), Virg. Aen. 3, 291 (comp. supr. I.): the river is lost in morasses, (flumen) paludibus hauritur, Tac. G. 1: to give up anything as lost, desperare (v. to despair), deplorare (not in Cic.): given up for lost by the physicians, a medicis deploratus, Plin. 7, 50, 51: to be lost in thought, in cogitatione defixum esse, Cic. de Or. 3, 5, 17.