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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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• pay (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To discharge a debt:
      1. 1. pendo, pĕpendi, pensum, 3 (gen. term): to p. money, tribute, tax, to any one, alicui pecuniam, tributum, vectigal p., Cic.: Caes.: pass. Also comp. dēpendo, di, sum, 3 (to p. down): Cic.: Col.
      2. 2. solvo, vi, ūtum, 3 (mercantile term, to discharge an obligation): to p. any one a debt, pecuniam debitam alicui s., Cic. Clu. 12, 34: to p. money to the day, pecuniam ad diem s., id. Att. 16, 16, A.: not to be able to p. one's debts, solvendo aere alieno non esse, Liv. 31, 13. Comps. (1). exsolvo, 3 (to p. off or in full): to p. off debts, nomina exs., Cic. Att. 16, 6: Tac. A. 1, 36, extr. (legata exsolvi duplicarique). (2). dissolvo, 3 (to p. off, discharge): to p. off debts by selling real property, aes alienum praediis venditis d., Cic. Sul. 20, 56: Caes. (3). persolvo, 3 (to p. in full): to pay off debts in full, aes alienum pers., Sall. Cat. 35: Suet.
      3. 3. nŭmĕro, 1 (to count out; pay down in ready money): to p. down large sums of money, magnam pecuniam n., Caes. B. C. 3, 3: Cic. Comps. (1). adnŭmĕro, 1 (to p. over, into the hands of): Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 15: Cic. (2). dīnŭmĕro, 1 (without perceptible diff. of meaning): Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 17.
      4. 4. luo, i, 3 (rare and late in this sense): Curt. 10, 2, ad fin. (aes alienum l.): Cod. Theod.
      5. 5. repraesento, 1 (to p. down in ready money, instead of letting it lie on interest): Cic. Att. 12, 25: cf. Suet. Aug. 101, quam summam [sc. legatam] repraesentavit, i. e. he ordered the legacy to be paid down at once (without waiting for his death).
    2. II. To make payment to: Phr.: to p. troops, stipendium militibus numerare, Cic. in Pis. 36, 88; persolvere (in full), id. Att. 5, 14; stipendio afficere exercitum, id. Bal. 27, 61. So with merces: v. supr. (I.); also, wages.
    3. III. Fig., to offer as due: Phr.: to p. praises and thanks, laudes gratesque agere, Liv. 7, 36, med.: Cic.: with habere (grates deis immortalibus agere atque habere, Liv. 23, 11, extr.): also, grates persolvere, Virg. Aen. 1, 600: to p. due honour to the gods (by sacrifice), persolvere diis honorem, ib. 8, 62: to p. one's respects to any one, salutare aliquem, Sall. Cat. 28: Cic.: Hor.: v. to render.
    4. IV. Special Phr.: to p. the penalty, poenas dare (v. punishment): also, poenas [justas et debitas] solvere, Cic. Mil. 31, fin.; poenas persolvere, etc. (v. penalty): to p. a vow, votum solvere, Cic. Ph. 3, 4, 11; reddere, id. Leg. 2, 9, 22: to p. the debt of nature, naturae satisfacere, Cic. Clu. 10, 29; naturae cedere, Sall. Jug. 14: to p. any one in his own coin, par pari referre, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 55.
  2. B. Intrans.:
    1. I. To meet one's liabilities: pendo, 3 (elliptical constr.): to p. for fodder, pro pabulo p., Plin. 12, 14, 32, fin.: or supply the ellipse: v. supr. (A., I.).
    2. II. To be remunerative: perh. respondeo, 2 (to make a return): cf. Sen. Ep. 23, 4, vena [metalli] assidue plenius responsura fodienti, i. e. which continually p.s better and better, for the labour of working: also, Virg. G. 1, 47 (= to answer any one's expectations of return). Or expr. by fructus, reditus: farms p. very well now, *agrorum hodie uberrimi sunt fructus, reditus: cf. Plin. Ep. 6, 3: land does not p. so well as it did, *imminuti sunt (minores sunt hodie) agrorum reditus: cf. Plin. l. c.