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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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• quick, to be: (cf. to quicken, intr. B).
    1. I. With life: vĭgĕo, ui, 2: you are q. with youth, strong in courage, viget aetas, animus valet, Sall. C. 20, 10.
    2. II. In speed and energy (cf. to make haste):
      1. 1. accĕlĕro, 1: if they will be q., si acc. volent, ad vesperam consequentur, Cic. Cat. 2, 4.
      2. 2. prŏpĕro, 1: propera! be q.! Pl. Cas. 2, 8, 57: esp. with inf.: cf. prop. redire in patriam, Cic. Prov. Cons. 14: prop. signa inferre, Sall. J. 56: reflect.; simulabat sese negotii causa prop., ib. 76: deprŏpĕro, 1: cf. propere, cito introite, et cito deproperate, ib. 2, 8, 57.
      3. 3. movēre se (to bestir oneself), Ter. And. 4, 3, 16.
      4. 4. mātūro, 1: one had need be q. in acting, facto maturatoque opus esse, Liv. 1, 58: also, to be too q. (in doing a thing): cf. ni Catilina maturasset signum dare, Sall. C. 18. Also expr. by subs.: to be q. in doing a kindness, maturitatem beneficio praestare, Frontin. Aq. 105.
      5. 5. expĕdĭo, īvi, or ii, ītum, 4, to be q. about anything (with acc.); cf. expedire negotia, Cic. Fam. 13, 26: to be q. and finish matters, exp. et conficere res, id. Brut. 42, 154: be q.! expedi! Pl. Stich. 2, 2, 11. Note:--festīno, 1, with part. festīnans, and adj. festīnus (poet.), almost always imply haste (i. e. hurry): see the antithesis of properat (is quick, makes good speed) to festinat (is hurried), Cat. in Gell. 16, 14.