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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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• marriage:
      1. 1. conjŭgium (the natural union of man and wife): the earliest association is in m., prima societas in ipso c. est, Cic. Off. 1, 17, 54: desirous of this m., cupidus hujus c., Nep. Cim. 1: Virg.
      2. 2. connūbium (strictly, right of intermarriage: hence also, sometimes actual intermarriage between tribes or nations generally: and poet. = conjugium): to link in steadfast m., c. jungere stabili, Virg. Aen. 1, 73: v. intermarriage.
      3. 3. mātrĭmōnium (strictly, with ref. to the wife, who becomes a matrona): to bestow a daughter in m., filiam in matrimonium collocare, Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104: so, ducere (feminam) in matrimonium, etc.: v. to marry. (Comp. Cic. Ph. 2, 18, 44, tanquam stolam dedisset, in matrimonio stabili et certo [te] locavit.) Also in gen. sense to contract m.s or break them off, matrimonia contrahere, dimittere, Suet. Cal. 25: children born under lawful m., liberi justo m. suscepti, Just. 10, init.
      4. 4. nuptiae, arum (strictly, the marriage-feast; hence meton. the union itself: "a match"): to celebrate a m. nuptias celebrare, Liv. 36, 11, init.: cf. Cic. Clu. 5, 12. quum essent hae nuptiae plenae dignitatis (i. e. it was a highly respectable match): to bring about a m., nuptias concili re, Nep. Att. 5.
      5. 5. poet. meton. fax, făcis, f. (the marriage-torch); tŏrus (m.-couch); thălămus (m.-chamber): to join to oneself in lawful m., face sollenni jungere sibi, Ov. M. 7, 49: united by m., toro juncta, Ov. F. 3. 511: a stranger to m., thalami expers, Virg. Aen. 4. 550. Phr.: the m.-halter, maritale capistrum, Juv. 6, 43: the law concerning m.s, lex marita (poet.). Hor. Car. Saec. 20; lex de maritandis ordinibus, Suet. Aug. 34 certificate of m., *litterae justarum nuptiarum testes.