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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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• post (subs.):
    1. I. A piece of wood set erect:
      1. 1. cippus (esp. for marking the extent of a graveyard; also, for a boundary mark): Hor. S. 1, 18, 12: Scr. Gromat. Goes. p. 88.
      2. 2. pālus (rather a stake than a post): v. stake.
      3. 3. pīla: v. pillar, pile. Fig., to denote stupidity, insensibility, truncus, stipes, Cic. in Pis. 9, 19: also, lapis, Ter. Heaut. 4, 7, 3: v. blockhead.
    2. II. Military:
      1. 1. stătio: to remain at one's p., in s. manere., Ov. M. 1, 627: cf. outpost.
      2. 2. praesĭdium (strictly, a body of men placed to guard): to occupy and fortify a p., pr. occupare et munire, Caes. B. C. 3, 45: to leave one's p., pr. relinquere, Cic. Tusc. 3, 8, 17; praesidio decedere, Liv. 4, 29, med. Fig.: to quit the p. of life, de praesidio et statione vitae decedere, Cic. Sen. 20, 73.
      3. 3. lŏcus (position, ground): to abandon the standards or quit one's p., signa relinquere aut loco cedere, Sall. Cat. 9.
    3. III. Troops stationed in a position: stătio, praesĭdium: v. picquet, guard.
    4. IV. Office: q. v. Phr.: to appoint to p.s of command, praeponere, praeficere (v. to appoint): yours is a difficult p., provinciam cepisti duram, Ter. Ph. 1, 2, 22: holding a lucrative p., *quaestuosae rei (curae) praepositus.
    5. V. Public service, etc.:
      1. 1. cursus publicus: to travel p. haste, celeri mutatione cursus publici vehi, Amm. 21, 9, med.: simply, to travel p., is cursu publico uti, Cod. Just. 12, 51 § 16: see the whole chapter ("de cursu publico"): the horses employed, veredi, Just. Cod. l. c. § 7; equi cursuales, ib. § 19: their drivers (p.-boys), veredarii, ib. § 13 (whence, for the service, res veredaria, Eichst. in Kr.).
      2. 2. cursus vĕhĭcŭlārius: Capit. Ant. P. 12: for which, res vehicularia, Amm. 14, 11, ad init. (copia rei v. data). Phr.: to travel p., publicis vehiculis uti, Amm. ib. infr. (N.B.--To expr. modern travelling by post, with ordinary hired vehicles, use, [celeri] permutatione jumentorum facta iter conficere: cf. Amm. ib. infr.)
    6. VI. The letter post: *tabellarii publici (or sing.): to send a letter by p., *t. publici officio uti, Wyttenb. in Kr.: to be at the head of the p., *tabellariis publicis praepositum esse. (Cursor publicus seems less suited to denote our modern postal service.)