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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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• obedience:
      1. 1. ŏbēdientia (most gen. term): slavery is the o. of a mean spirit, servitus est ob. animi fracti et abjecti, Cic. Par. 5, 1, 35: to refuse o., ob. abjicere, id. Off. 1, 29, 102: Plin. who uses it of the ob. of bees to their queen, of elephants to their masters, etc.).
      2. 2. obtempĕrātio (rational ob., according to principle: rare): Cic. Leg. 1, 15, 42 (si justitia est obtemperatio scriptis legibus).
      3. 3. expr. by pāreo, ŏbēdio: to render o. to any one, alicui parere, obedire by o. and command, et parendo et imperando: a zealous o. was rendered to the dictator by both parties, utrimque enixe dictatori obeditum est., Liv. 4, 26, extr.: v. to obey.
      4. 4. obsĕquium (a low kind of obedience; compliance, complaisance): later = obedientia: they swear o. (loyalty) to his guardians, in tutorum obsequia jurant, Just. 13, 2, extr. Phr.. to keep (people) to their o., in officio continere, Caes. B. G. 3, 11: v. duty.