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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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• put down:
    1. I. To set down:
      1. 1. dēpōno, 3: to p. down a load, onus dep., Lucr. 3, 1072: to p. down a thing out of one's hands, aliquid de manibus dep., Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 3. Fig.: to put down money, etc. (esp. as a wager): depono: I p. down this heifer, ego hanc vitulam depono, Virg. E. 3, 31: also, in medium conferre (= to p. into the pool), Suet. Aug. 71: v. to lay: to p. down (in writing): scribo, conscribo, describo: v. TO WRITE DOWN.
      2. 2. appōno, 3: cf. Pl. Poen. 4, 2, 35: Sy. Onus urget. Mi. At tu appone (p. it down then): cf. Ter. Andr. 4, 3, 10, hunc ante nostram januam appone. Also (very rare), to put down as, e. g. gain, quem fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro appone, Hor. Od. 1, 9, 15: cf. Ter. Andr. 2, 1, 32: v. to account; to reckon.
      3. 3. fĕro, tŭli, lātum, 3: to p. down an item in an account, cf. Cic. Verr. 1, 39, 100, expensum tulerit (p. it down as paid).
    2. II. To lower:
      1. 1. dēmitto, misi, missum, 3: to p. down the sail-yard, antennam d., Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 9: to p. down the ears (in fear or submission), d. aures, Hor. Od. 2, 13, 34: d. auriculas, id. S. 1, 9, 20: also submitto: aures (opp. to surrigere), Plin. 10, 48, 67: oculos, Ov. F. 3, 272: fasces, Plin. 7, 30, 31: v. to let down; to lower.
      2. 2. dēpōno, 3: he p.s down his head and falls asleep, caput deponit, condormiscit, Pl. Curc. 2, 3, 81: to p. down his head on the ground, caput terrae d., Ov. M. 3, 5, 20.
      3. 3. dējĭcĭo, 3 (v. to throw down; to throw off): in old Eng. (e. g. Bacon) used like alvum dejicere: v. to purge.
    3. III. Hence, fig. to degrade, to humble; to repress:
      1. 1. prĕmo, and compounds: (1). prĕmo, pressi, pressum, 3: he prided himself on p.ing down a superior, premendo superiorem sese extollebat, Liv. 22, 12: to p. down one's reputation, famam alicujus pr., Tac. A. 15, 49: in order to p. down people's talk, ut premeret vulgi sermones, id. A. 3, 6. Join. premere ac despicere, Quint. 11, 1, 16. (2). dēprimo: each raises himself by p.ing down another, ita se quisque extollit, ut deprimat alium, Liv. 3, 65, fin. (3). supprĭmo: v. to repress.
      2. 2. dējĭcĭo, jēci, jectum, 3: with de, to be p. down from a post of honour, de honore dejici, Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 9, 25: abl. alone, honore, Liv. 39, 41: p. down from their supremacy, dejecti principatu, Caes. B.G. 7, 63. Joined with demoveo, depello, and detrudo, in Cic. Caecin. 17, 49, demoveri et depelli de loco necesse est eum qui dejiciatur: neminem statui detrusum, qui non adhibita vi manu demotus et actus praeceps intelligatur: for detrūdo (the strongest term) cf. to be p. down from the first rank to the second, a primo ordine in secundum detrudi, Suet. Caes. 29. Depono is used in this sense in Vulg. Luc. i. 52, deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles: v. to degrade, to depose.
    4. IV. To suppress, to do away with:
      1. 1. exstinguo, nxi, nctum, 3: when death had p. down envy, mors quum exstinxisset invidiam, Cic. Balb. 6, 16: truth may too often be overpowered, never p. down, veritatem laborare nimis saepe, aiunt, exstingui nunquam, Liv. 22, 39. Join: exst. and opprĭmo: you ought to p. down and crush in the bud the power of that sort of men, hominum ejusmodi perniciosam atque intolerandam potentiam primo quoque tempore exst. atque opprimere debetis, Cic. Rosc. A. 13, 36.
      2. 2. tollo, sustŭli, sublātum, 3: to p. down old laws by new ones, veteres leges novis legibus t., Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 247: with ex, dictaturam funditus ex republica t., id. Phil. 1, 1, 3 v. to abolish; to destroy.
      3. 3. submitto, 3: furorem, Virg. Aen. 12, 832: cf. to quell.
    5. V. To p. down something of one's own; to give up, abandon, resign:
      1. 1. pōno (opp. to sumo, take up): cf. Nec sumit aut ponit secures, Arbitrio popularis aurae, Hor. Od. 3, 2, 19-20: cf. to lay down.
      2. 2. rĕpōno.
      3. 3. exŭo: cf. to lay aside.