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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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• plunge (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To dip in water, etc.: mergo, si, sum, 3: to p. chickens in the water, pullos in aquam m., Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 7: foll. by sub and abl. = to whelm beneath, Virg. Aen. 6, 342. Frequent. merso, 1 (to p. again and again, as in sheep-washing), id. G. 3, 447. Comps. (1). immergo, 3 (more freq. than simple verb in present sense): to p. the hands in boiling water, manus in aquam ferventem i., Plin. 28, 6, 15: Cic. Tim. 13: less freq. with dat.: Ov.: Plin. (2). dēmergo, 3: with in and acc., Lucr. 6, 149: also abl., Suet. Tib. 2. (3). submergo, 3 (to p. beneath, submerge): Virg.: Ov.
    2. II. To thrust deep: Phr.: to p. a sword into the bowels, demittere in ilia ferrum, Ov. M. 4, 119: Pl.: so, ensem condere in pectore, Virg. Aen. 9, 347; or with simple abl., Ov. M. 13, 459: also, recondere (to p. deep), Virg. Aen. 10, 387: Ov. (Not mergo in this sense, unless as a strongly fig. expr.: cf. Ov. M. 3, 249.)
    3. III. To bring into; esp. in such phrr. as to p. one's country into war, perh. patriam bello illigare (to entangle, involve), cf. Liv. 32, 21, ad med.
  2. B. Intrans.:
    1. I. Into water, etc.: expr. by mergo, immergo, dēmergo, with pron. refl., also as refl. pass.: to p. in the sea (= dive, of birds), se in mari mergere, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, init.: so, in aquam se immergere, Plin. 11, 25, 30. (N.B.--The acc. serves to indicate the act of plunging into the water; the abl., the place where it is done.) See also to dive.
    2. II. Fig., to rush headlong into Phr.: he p.d into the thick of the enemy's swords, inter mucrones se hostium immersit, Just. 33, 2: to p. in sensual delights, in voluptates se mergere, Liv. 23, 18, med.: cf. ingurgitare se in flagitia (to be quite swallowed up in vicious excess), Cic. in Pis. 18, 42; also, effundere se in libidine (to indulge to excess), id. Par. 3, 1, 21.