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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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• mount (v.):
    1. I. To rise on high:
      1. 1. expr. by adv. sublīme, or adj. sublīmis (cf. L. G. § 343), and verb: to m. aloft, sublime ferri, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40; efferri, Liv. 21, 30: so, sublime volare, Lucr. 2, 206: with adj.: he m.'d aloft, sublimis abiit, Liv. 1, 16, fin.
      2. 2. subvŏlo, 1: to m. upwards towards heaven, in coelestem locum s., Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40: Ov.
      3. 3. expr. by sursum, with various verbs: e. g. sursum succedere, Lucr. 2, 203: so, sursum ferri, cf. deorsum ferri, Lucr. l. c.: v. upwards.
      4. 4. exsĭlio, ēmĭco: v. to spring up. See also to ascend.
    2. II. To get on horseback: equum conscendo, etc.: v. infr. (III.).
    3. III. Trans.: to get upon:
      1. 1. scando, di, sum, 3: to m. the walls (of a besieged city), s. moenia, Liv. 22, 14, med.: Cic.: v. to climb. Comps. (1). conscendo, 3 (usu. with direct acc.): to m. a horse, equum c., Liv. 1, 57; also, in equum, Ov. M. 6, 222: to m. a rampart, vallum c., Caes. B. G. 5, 39, fin. (2). escendo, 3 (usu. with prep.): to m. a carriage, in currum e. (al. conscendere), Pl. Merc. 5, 2, 90: to m. the rostra, in rostra e., Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80. (3). ascendo, 3 (both with and without prep.): to m. a horse, a. in equum, id. Sen. 10, fin.: to m. the rostra (tribune), in contionem a., Cic. Fin. 2, 22, 74: also without in, Liv. 23, 14, init.: to m. the ridge of a mountain, jugum montis a., Caes. B. G. 1, 21. (4). inscendo, 3 (usu. with prep. in; but also without): to m. a horse, ins. in equum, Suet. Ner. 48 (pass. inscendi, to be m.'d, of Bucephalus, Gell. 5, 2): Pl. (Inscendo is less freq. than the preced. comps., and not in Cic. at all.)
      2. 2. ēgrĕdior, ssus, 3 (rather rare in this sense, and never trans.): the soldiers had almost m.'d the summit with their scaling-ladders, scalis egressi milites prope summa ceperant, Sall. Jug. 60: Liv.
      3. 3. sŭpĕro, 1: I m. the very top-most point of the house, summi fastigia tecti ascensu supero, Virg. G. 2, 303: Liv.: v. to surmount.
    4. IV. Phr.: to m. guard, stationem agere, Tac. H. 1, 28; in statione esse, Caes. B. G. 4, 32: v. guard, subs. (I.).