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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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• mitigate:
      1. 1. mītĭgo, 1 (to diminish the severity of anything: whether of bodily or mental sensations): the cold becoming m.d, mitigato frigore, Col. 1, 1, ad init.: to m. hardships, mala, labores m., cf. Tac. Ann. 14, 24: to m. the severity (of a governor), severitatem m., Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7.
      2. 2. mollio, 1 (to soften: hence fig. to moderate violence, passion, etc.): they should m. their anger, mollirent iras, Liv. 1, 9, fin.: to m. a punishment, poenam m. (poet.), Ov. Tr. 3, 5, 53.
      3. 3. lēnio, 4 (to quiet down, soothe); cf. Cic. Mur. 31, 65, te ipsum ... dies leniet, aetas mitigabit: Sall. Phr.: to m. a penalty, aliquid de severitate poenae remittere, cf. Cic. Ph. 1, 5, extr. see also to lessen, abate, relieve.