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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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• own (adj.): always preceded by my, thy, his, our, your, their, or some other possessive word:
      1. 1. expr. by gen. of ipse: with my, his, o. hand, mea, sua ipsius manu: with their o. blood, eorum ipsorum sanguine, Cic. Man. 11, 30, et pass. Also the pron. ipse freq. stands in apposition with subject, instead of being put in gen.: he cut off his o. legs, *ipse sua crura amputavit (not sua ipsius crura): for rules applying to such cases, comp. himself.
      2. 2. when a contrast gives prominence to the pron. adj., meus, tuus, suus, etc. are sufficiently emphatic without any addition: e. g. to defend the interests of their allies, not their o. homes, sociorum fortunas, non sua tecta defendere, Cic. Man. 12, init.: grasping what belonged to others; lavish of his o., alieni appetens, sui profusus, Sall. Cat. 5.
      3. 3. the pron. adj. is sometimes strengthened by suffixes, -met, -pte: by my o. fault, meamet (rare and archaic) culpa, Pl. Poen. 1, 3, 37: on my o. account, meapte causa, Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 8 so, nostrapte culpa, id. Ph. 5, 2, 1. This kind of emphasis is most common in suus: e. g. killed by his o. hand, suapte manu interfectus, Cic. de Or. 3, 3, 10: in their own way, suopte more, Sall. Jug. 31. (N.B.--The pron. adj. is idiomatically strengthened by dativus ethicus sibi: I cut this man's throat with his o. sword, suo sibi hunc gladio jugulo, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 35.)
      4. 4. proprius (one's own); oft. with pron. adj. meus, tuus, etc.: all that was (peculiarly) our o., omnia quae nostra erant propria, Cic. R. Am. 52, init. Also without pron. adj., where the context implies possession: three estates are handed over to Capito as his o., tria praedia Capitoni p. traduntur, ib. 8, 21.
      5. 5. pĕcūliāris, e (of one's o. private property: strictly, in the case of persons not sui juris): to get anything on one's o. private account, aliquid p. nomine apprehendere [de filio], Ulp. Dig. 41, 2, 4: his o. private slaves, servi p., Suet. Caes. 76.