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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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• prostitute (v.):
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. vulgo, 1: to p. the body for hire, corpus pretio v., Aur. Vict. Orig. ad fin.: Liv. 1, 4.
      2. 2. publĭco, 1: Pl. Bac. 4, 7, 22.
      3. 3. prostĭtuo, i, ūtum, 3 (to expose for hire): to p. oneself, p. pudicitiam suam, Suet. Ner. 29: Ov. Am. 1, 10, 42 (p. faciem suam lucro). (Softened expr., parum honeste pudicitiam habere, Sall. Cat. 14: cf. ib. 13, pudicitiam in propatulo habere, i. e. expose it for sale.)
      4. 4. to p. oneself, prosto, stĭti, stātum, 1: Juv. 1, 47: Sen. Contr.
    2. II. To devote to base uses: Phr.: he p.d his talents to the praise of a tyrant, *bonum ingenium suum turpiter ad tyrannum laudibus extollendum contulit: see also to disgrace.