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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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• protection:
    1. I. Protecting power or care:
      1. 1. tūtēla: (a city) under the p. of Apollo, in tutela Apollinis, Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 55: to commend to any one's p., tutelae alicujus commendare, id. Off. 1, 53, 228. Join: tutela ac praesidium, id. Mur. 10, 22. Fig.: wool affords p. against cold, lanae tutelam contra frigora praestant, Plin. 29., 2, 9.
      2. 2. praesĭdium (strictly, a body of troops defending: also used like tutela): Cic. Mur. 10., 22 (tutela ac praesidium).
      3. 3. fĭdes, ĕi, f. (plighted faith: hence, by meton. = protection): to have recourse to any one's p. as dependents, in alicujus f. et clientelam se conferre, Cic. R. Am. 37, 106: Caesar said he would take them under his p. and preserve them, Caesar sese eos in fidem recepturum et conservaturum dixit, Caes. B. G. 2, 15: to implore the p. of gods and men, deum atque hominum f. implorare, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, 25.
      4. 4. custōdia (watch or guard): v. guard.
    2. II. That which protects:
      1. 1. tūtēla (meton.): Hor.: Ov. Join: decus et tutela, Ov. Met. 12, 612.
      2. 2. tūtāmen, ĭnis, n.: Virg. Aen. 5, 262 (decus et tutamen, sc. lorica). In same sense, tutamentum: Liv. 21, 61, fin.
      3. 3. praesĭdium (safeguard): H r. Od. 1, 1, 2: cf. Cic. Mur. 28, 77, illud fortissimum praesidium pudoris (where the gen. is perh. of apposition). Compare supr. (I.).
    3. III. In commerce, favouring home trade by means of import duties: to abolish p. in corn, *portoria tollere quae ad externa frumenta excludenda imposito sunt.