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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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• overthrow (v.):
    1. I. To throw down:
      1. 1. dējĭcio, jēci, ctum, 3: to o. the statues of the men of old, statuas veterum hominum d., Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19 Hor. Od. 1, 2, 15.
      2. 2. ēverto, ti, sum, 3: to o. a house on its owner's head, in dominum tecta e., Ov. M. 1, 231: Or. pro Dom. 40, 105: v. to upset. (Oftener in sense II.)
      3. 3. perverto, 3: v. to overturn.
      4. 4. afflīgo, xi, ctum, 3 (to dash violently to the ground): to o. a (sepulchral) monument, monumentum a., Cic. Coel. 32, 78: to o. a house, domum a., Or. pro Dom. 40, extr. See also to overturn.
    2. II. To subvert, ruin, destroy:
      1. 1. ēverto, 1: to o. states utterly, civitates funditus e., Cic. in Pis. 35, 86: Virg.: Ov.
      2. 2. perverto, 3: (to o. completely: in fig. sense): to shake and o. friendship, justice, amicitiam, justitiam labefactare atque p., Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70.
      3. 3. subverto, 3 (esp. by insidious, underhand attacks): the house of the Crassi o.n., subversa domus Crassorum, Tac. H. 4, 42: Nep. Pel. 2. Fig.: rapacity overthrew honesty, avaritia fidem subvertit, Sall. Cat. 10.
      4. 4. prōflīgo, 1 (lit. to dash down; hence, to do fatal damage to: see also III.): to o. a commonwealth, rempublicam p., Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 3.
      5. 5. percello, cŭli, culsum, 3 (to deal a violent, fatal blow to): to o. (ruin) the commonwealth, rempublicam p., Tac. A. 2, 39, init.: Suet.
      6. 6. ēruo, i, ŭtum, 3 (completely to o. and destroy): to o. a kingdom, regnum e., Virg. Aen. 2, init.: Vell.: expr. pass. by concĭdo, i, 3 (to come to the ground, be o.n): in the year in which Carthage was o.n, eodem anno quo Carthago concidit, Vell. 1, 13: the authority of the senate having been o.n, quum senatus auctoritas concidisset, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 3: Virg. Hor.: v. to fall. In like manner, pĕreo, 4, irr.: v. to perish.
    3. III. To conquer completely:
      1. 1. prōflīgo, 1: to o. and cut to pieces the forces of the enemy, copias hostium p., occidere, Cic. Ph. 14, 14, 37: Caes.
      2. 2. fundo, prŏfundo, 3: v. to rout.
      3. 3. dēvinco, dēbello, etc.: v. to subdue, conquer.
      4. 4. opprĭmo, pressi, ssum, 3 (to crush, overwhelm): to o. the freedom of the people, libertatem populi o., Nep. Alc. 3: to o. (put down) an intolerable domination, intolerandam potentiam o., Cic. R. Am. 13, 13.