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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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• prepare:
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To make ready:
      1. 1. păro, 1: to p. everything necessary, quod opus est p., Ter. And. 3, 2, 43: to p. oneself to learn, p. se ad discendum, Cic. Or. 35, 122. Join: parare et instruere [convivium], Cic. Verr. 4, 27, 62. Comps. (1). praepăro, 1 (to get ready beforehand): to p. land for (a crop of) grain, frumentis arva p., Col. 2, 16, init.: to p. for a journey, profectionem p., Suet. Tib. 38: Caes. B. G. 5, 9 (= make ready previously). (2). compăro, 1 (esp. to bring together resources for an enterprise): to p. resources against every emergency, subsidia adversus omnes casus c., Caes. B. G. 4, 31: to p. oneself (by collecting arguments) to reply, se ad respondendum c., Cic. N. D. 3, 8, init. (3). appăro, 1 (to make careful preparations for): to p. (for) war, bellum a., Cic. Man. 12, extr.: v. preparation (I., fin.). Join: [convivium] ornare et apparare, Cic. Verr. 4, 20, 44.
      2. 2. orno, exorno, ădorno, 1 (to p. by furnishing and fitting out): v. to fit out, furnish.
    2. II. To mix a medicine:
      1. 1. compōno, pŏsui, ĭtum, 3: Col. 6, 4, init.: Plin.
      2. 2. perh. concinno, 1: cf. Cato, R. R. 114, vinum c., ut alvum bonam faciat: ib. 115. Phr. to p. a draught, medicamentum (in poculo) diluere, Curt. 3, 6, med. (N.B.--Medicinam facere [R. and A.] is to practise physic.)
    3. III. To study a speech or other composition: mĕdĭtor, 1: esp. in phr. meditari causam (to prepare one's case, con a brief), Cic. Att. 5, 21, extr.: Ter.
  2. B. Intrans.: to make oneself ready:
      1. 1. păro, compăro, 1 (with pron. refl.): foll. by ad and acc.: v. supr. (A., I.). Also apparo is used absol. (not in Cic.), = apparo me: and followed by infin.: as he was p.ing to cross over from Sicily, quum trajicere ex Sicilia appararet, cf. Suet. Aug. 47, extr.
      2. 2. accingo, nxi, nctum, 3 (with pron. refl. or oftener, as pass. refl.; to gird oneself: chiefly poet.): come, prepare! accingere! Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 4: to p. to take revenge, accingi ad ultionem, Tac. H. 4, 79.