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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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• ravish:
    1. I. To carry off:
      1. 1. răpio, ui, ptum, 3: he wins the r.'d prey, rapto potitur, Virg. Aen. 4, 217: everything sounds with lamentations of women and children who are r.'d and carried off, omnia ... mulierum puerorumque qui rapiuntur atque asportantur ploratibus sonant, Liv. 29, 17. So, comp. abripio, 3: Cic.
      2. 2. abstrăho xi, ctum, 3: to r. from a mother's embrace, de matris complexu ... [avellere atque] a., Cic. Font. 17, 36.
      3. 3. abdūco, xi, ctum, 3: the daughter of Isidorus r.'d by force, Isidori filia vi abducta, Cic. Verr. 3, 34, 78: v. to carry off.
    2. II. To dishonour:
      1. 1. stupro, 1: Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 64: et pass. In same sense, constupro, 1: matronas, virgines, Liv. 29, 17.
      2. 2. vĭtio, 1: Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 37 (virginem v.). So, virgini vitium per vim offerre, id. Ad. 3, 1, 9.
      3. 3. expr. by phr. pudicitiam expugnare, Cic. Coel. 20, 49; p. imminuere, Pl. Cist. 1, 1, 89. Also, comprimere, polluere, may be used, with some such phr. as, per vim, invitam (reluctantem, sc. mulierem); but alone they do not exclude the notion of consent on the other part. Phr.: endeavouring to r., virginitatem violare conantem, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 59: suddenly r.'d, subita Veneris violata rapina, Ov. A. A. 1, 675: Phoebe was r.'d, vim passa est Phoebe, Ov. A. A. 1, 679.
    3. III. To delight intensely, răpio, 3: Vulg. Judith xvi. 11: but usu. pass. Phr.: r.'d with delight, dulcedine laetae (aves), Virg. G. 4, 55: to be r.'d by the charms of song, carminibus stupere, Hor. Od. 2, 13, 33: to be r.'d with joy, summa laetitia efferri; laetitia perfundi: v. to transport, charm; also, rapture, enraptured.