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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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• quarrel (subs. Fr. querelle, fr. Lat. querela = complaint), used in all shades of meaning, from disagreement up to fighting, but now in a narrower sense:
      1. 1. jurgium, n.: gen. term (when confined to words): cf. ex inimicitiis jurgia, maledicta gignuntur, Cic. Am. 21: to fasten a q. upon a person, jurgio quempiam invadere, Tac. H. 2, 53: cf. petulantibus jurgiis illudere, id. ib. 3, 32: optimum quemque jurgio lacessere, id. A. 14, 49: to pick a q. with any one, jurgio contendere, and (poet.), jurgia nectere cum aliquo, Ov. Am. 2, 2, 35: to pursue vain q.s, cf. (poet.) inania jurgia jactas, Virg. Aen. 10, 95: to be involved in a q. and get one's ears boxed: cf. adeo ut (Agrippina) correpta jurgio, atque etiam manu pulsata a matre Lepidae, Suet. Galb. 5. Also, in this sense, altercātĭo, f., contentĭo, f.: v. dispute: wrangling.
      2. 2. rixa, f. (stronger: v. brawl, fray): Join: turba atque rixa (a collision and q. between counsel), Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, 148: Join: corrupta jurgiis aut rixis disciplina (q.s or brawls), Tac. H. 2, 27, fin.: to begin a q., in rixam ire, Quint. 6, 4, 13: to be involved in a q., in rixa esse, Liv. 40, 14: to have a q. with, alicui rixa est cum aliquo; cf. Academiae nostrae cum Zenone magna r. est, Cic. Fam. 9, 22: to settle or end a q. (peaceably): cf. rixa sedata est, Liv. 2, 29: to decide a q. (by fighting it out), rixam transigere: cf. crebrae, ut inter vinolentos, rixae, raro conviciis, saepius caede et vulneribus, transiguntur, Tac. G. 22: to produce a q. (said of wine), r. gerere, Hor. Od. 3, 21, 3. We may also use (in different shades of meaning) controversia, discordia, lis (v. debate: dispute), and even pugna (v. fight). Phr.: to make up a q., reconciliare gratiam, Cic. Fam. 5, 2; concordiam, Liv. 2., 32; amicitiam de integro, id. 8, 2; inimicitiam invicem, Tac. G. 22. Phr. to seek a q. with, occasiones quaerere adversum, Vulg. 4 Reg. v. 7. Phr.: to undertake a person's q., se partibus alicujus adjungere. See also to quarrel: quarrelsome.