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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 to:
    1. I. Lit.: to apply to:
      1. 1. appōno, 3, with ad: p.ing one's ear to the ice, apposita aure ad glaciem, Plin. 8, 28, 42: to p. the hands to the face, manus ad os app., Cic.: with dat., to p. a torch to the doors (to set fire to), candelam valvis app., Juv. 9, 98: in this sense also subdo, subjicio, suppono: v. TO SET (FIRE TO): and infĕro, cf. Cic. Cat. 3, 9, 22.
      2. 2. applĭco, 1: v. to put, No. 9.
      3. 3. apto, 1: to p. arrows to the bow-strings, nervo sagittas apt., Virg. Aen. 10, 131.
      4. 4. impōno, 3 (to p. the male to the female): asinum equae imp., Col. 36, 4.--Phr.: to p. the hand to anything: (1.) v. to touch: tango, cf. Vulg. 1 Paralip. xiii. 10. (2.) v. TO REACH OUT: manum porrĭgo, extendo. Fig.: to steal, man. ext. ad, Vulg. Ex. xxii. 11. (3.) v. to swear: manum jungere, Vulg. id. ib. xxiii. 1. (4.) to p. their necks to the work, supponere colla sua in opere, id. 2 Esdr. iii. 5. (5.) to p. one's name to, subscrībo, etc.: v. sign, subscribe.
    2. II. The comp. to put to (= to add) opp. to to take from: addo, 3; appono, 3: v. to add; to put down; to reckon.
    3. III. To put to (horses, etc.): jungo, nxi, nctum, 3, and comps.: cf. equos j., Virg. G. 3, 114: equos curru j., id. Aen. 7, 724: reges ad currum j., Plin. 33, 3, 15. Comps. (1.) adjungo: cf. tauros aratro adj., Tib. 1, 10, 7. (2.) subjungo: cf. curru subj. tigres, Virg. E. 5, 29; juvencos plostro subj., Col. 6, 2, 8; carpento suos equos subj., Plin. 11, 49, 109: v. to harness; to yoke.
    4. IV. To drive or urge to any course (as "Thank him who puts me lothe to this revenge," Milton: "the avarice of their relations put them to painting," Dryden):
      1. 1. impello, 3, with in, ad, or ut and subj., etc.: v. to impel; to force; to urge.
      2. 2. addūco, 3: to be p. to the greatest straits, in summas angustias add., Cic. Quint. 5: in discrimen extremum add., id. Phil. 6, 7: ad ultimum discrimen add., Liv. 45, 8: p. to (or up to) a crime, ad tantum facinus add., Cic. R. A. 31: v. to bring to, into.
    5. V. To bring into any state: affĭcĭo, 3, with abl. gen. term: to p. to death (= execute), supplicio aff., Caes. B. G. 1, 27: to p. to inconvenience, incommodo aff., id. ib. 7, 16: to p. to grief or pain, dolore aff., Lucr. 3, 495: to p. to the torture, cruciatu aff., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4. Various Phrr.: (1.) to p. to death, to the sword: v. to kill; to slay; to massacre; to execute; to punish: esp. in the last sense, animadverto in: cf. Suet. Cal. 30, non temere in quenquam, nisi crebris et minutis ictibus, animadverti passus est (any one to be p. to death): to p. to the sword, trūcīdāre, ferro truc., trucidando occīdĕre: v. to slaughter: caedo, cĕcīdi, caesum, 3: Caes.: cf. Lucerini ad internecionem caesi sunt, Liv. 9, 26: "p. to the sword or to the halter" (Clarendon), *ferro aut laqueo necati: to p. to the cudgel (Hudibras), fuste (or-ibus) caedĕre, mulctāre, tundĕre, verberare: v. cudgel. (2.) to p. to flight: fŭgo, 1; impello, 3: v. flight, to put to. The Vulg. has persequi hostes, alienos, Lev. xxvi. 7: Deut. xxxii. 30. (3.) to p. to rights: ordĭno, 1: expĕdĭo, 4: v. to put in (order). (4.) to p. to shame: confundo, Vulg. Ps. xliii. 8 (xliv. 7): v. to shame: to be p. to shame: pudet: v. ashamed, to be. The Vulg. has confundor and revereor: Join: confundantur et revereantur simul (let them be, etc.), Ps. xxxix. 15 (xl. 14): also dēhŏnesto, 1, Prov. xxv. 8: insulto, 1, ib. x. (5.) to be p. to silence: contĭcesco, tĭcŭi, 3: cf. conscientia convictus repente conticuit, Cic. Cat. 3, 5: also mūtum fieri, let the lying lips be p. to silence, muta fiant labia dolosa, Vulg. Ps. xxx. 19 (xxxi. 18): and mutus alone: he was p. to silence, mutus illico, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 27: cf. to silence; silent. (6.) to p. to work: adhĭbĕo, ui, 2: with acc. of person; dat. of thing, Cic. (7.) to p. one's hand to (a work): aggrĕdior, essus, 3, dep.: with acc., to some great work, magnum quid aggr., Cic. Att. 2, 14: with ad, cf. aggreditur ad pacis opus, Liv. 1, 42: and ădŏrĭor, ortus, 4, dep.: cf. hoc ipsum continuo adoriamur, Cic.: v. to begin; to undertake. (8.) to p. (it) to a person, as a question, appeal, etc.: pono: v. supr., to put, No. 3. (9.) to p. to (to press hard), as, "We'll p. the matter to the present push" (Shaksp.), insto, etc.: to be p. to it, in periculo, discrimine esse, agi, periclitari, etc.: v. push. (10.) to p. to land: 1. appello, 3: 2. applĭco, 1: v. TO BRING TO LAND: cf. TO PUT IN TO PORT.