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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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• oath:
      1. 1. jusjūrandum, jūrisjurandi, n. (gen. term): to cause any one to take an o., aliquem jusj. adigere, Caes. B. G. 7, 67: Liv.: also. ad j. adigere, Sall. Cat. 22: and, jurejurando aliquem adigere (to bind by o.: foll. by acc. and inf.), Liv. 10. 38, med.; also, jurej. obstringere, Caes. B. G. 1, 31: to take an o., j. accipere, Caes. B. C. 3, 28: to swear a most true o., verissimum j. jurare, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, med.: to tender an o. to any one (in court), j. deferre alicui, Quint. 5, 6. 3: to offer to take o., j. offerre, ib. § 1 (see the whole chap.) to be under an engagement by o., jurej. teneri, Cic. Off. 3, 27, 100: to keep one's o., j. conservare, ib.; jurej. stare, Quint. l. c.
      2. 2. verba, orum (the formulary of oath; esp. with ref. to some person to whom fealty is sworn): usu. in connexion with jurare: unless he took the o. dictated by himself, nisi in quae ipse concepisset verba juraret. Liv. 7, 5, med.: so paulo infr., adjurat in quae adactus est verba: he caused the soldiers to take the o. to Vespasian, in verba Vespasiani milites adegit, Suet. Vesp. 6: Tac.: more fully, in alicujus verba jusjurandum adigere (with acc. of person), Caes. B. C. 2, 18.
      3. 3. sacrāmentum (military; taken by soldiers on enlisting): to cause soldiers to take the o. to any one, sacramento (milites) adigere, Liv. 4, 5: Tac. (with gen. of authority to whom, legiones sacramento Othonis ad.): also, sacramento aliquem obligare (a less formal expr.), Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36. he compels them to take the o. to himself, (milites) apud se s. dicere jubet, Caes. B. C. 1, 23: to prove false to the military o., s. mutare, Suet. Cl. 13. In fig. sense: Hor. Od. 2, 17, 10.
      4. 4. expr. by jūro, adjūro, āvi and ātus sum, 1 (to take an o.): he takes this o., in haec verba jurat, Caes. B. C. 1, 76 to take the o. of allegiance to any one, in nomen alicujus jurare, Suet. Cl. 10; in aliquem jurare, Tac. H. 1, 76: cf. supr. (2): v. to swear.