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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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• oppression:
    1. I. A weighing down: grăvātio: o. after food, g. post cibum, Coel. Aur. (Or expr. by verb: v. to oppress, I.)
    2. II. Cruelty and tyranny:
      1. 1. injūria: or more expressively (cf. L. G. § 591), injūriae: to resist o., ire obviam injuriae, Liv. 3, 37, extr.: o. practised upon peoples and individuals, populorum privatorumque injuriae, Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 2, 6: to add o. to o., cumulare injurias, Liv. 3, 37, ad init.
      2. 2. servĭtus (a state of bondage and o.): the Athenians bewailed their grievous o., tristem s. flebant Attici, Phaedr. 1, 2, 6: Cic.: cf. to oppress (II., 1).
      3. 3. vexātio (violent and cruel usage): Liv.: v. outrage.