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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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• oppress:
    1. I. To weigh down, overburden:
      1. 1. prĕmo, ssi, ssum, 3: to be o.'d with debt, aere alieno premi, Caes. B. G. 6, 13: sorrows which o. me, aerumnae quae me p., Sall. Jug. 17. Stronger is opprĭmo, 3 (to weigh quite down, overwhelm): to be o.'d with suffering in every part of the body, totius corporis doloribus opprimi, Cic. Fam. 9, 14, ad init.: (hopelessly) o.'d with debt, aere alieno oppressus, Cic. Cat. 2, 4, extr.: Sall.
      2. 2. afflīgo, xi, ctum, 3 (strictly, to dash to the ground: hence, to distress grievously): esp. in p. part., o.'d with grief, afflictions, etc., moerore, aegritudinibus afflictus: Cic. pass.
      3. 3. grăvo, 1: v. TO WEIGH DOWN.
      4. 4. ŏnĕro, 1 (esp. of food which lies on the stomach): Plin.: v. to load (I., 1). To be o.'d (uncomfortably fatigued), ingravescere., Cic. Sen. 11, 36.
    2. II. To treat oppressively:
      1. 1. opprĭmo, 3 (in connexion with some other words to complete the idea, as servitus, crudelitas): to liberate one's country when o.'d by tyrants, patriam a tyrannis oppressam e servitute in libertatem vindicare, Nep. Thras. 1: to o. a state, civitatem servitute oppressam tenere, Auct. pro dom. 51, 131.
      2. 2. vexo, 1 (to treat with outrage and violence): to o. and ruin a province, provinciam v. atque perdere, Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 4, 12: to o. and impoverish a territory, agros v. atque exinanire, Cic. Verr. 3, 52, 122. Join: lacerare atque vexare (most cruelly to o.), Cato in Gell. 2, 6, med. (where the full force of the verb vexo is explained).
      3. 3. expr. by injūria, with a verb: since he o.'d all the Sicilians, quum omnibus Siculis injurias faceret, Cic. Div. Verr. 16, 52: so, injurias imponere, injuriis afficere, id.: v. injury, injustice. Phr.: the humbler classes were wantonly and cruelly o.'d, in humiliores libidinose crudeliterque consulebatur, Liv. 3, 37, med.: see also to tyrannize.