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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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• regulate:
    1. I. To set in order, adjust:
      1. 1. ordĭno, 1: when all things were being r.d, appointed and prepared, cum omnia ordinarentur, instituerentur, pararentur, Cic. Sull. 19, 53: he corrected and r.d a most disorderly custom, confusissimum morem correxit ordinavitque., Suet. Aug. 44, init.: the Gods have so r.d the fates, ita dii fata ordinaverunt, Curt. 4, 14, 20.
      2. 2. compōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3: I had so r.d my journeys as to be at Puteoli on the Nones, ego itinera sic composueram ut Nonis Puteolis essem, Cic. Att. 15, 26: the works of the water-clocks are thus r.d, ita componuntur horologiorum collocationes, Vitr. 9., 8 (9), 6: v. arrange.
      3. 3. dispenso, 1 (to r. the quantity): to r. and trim the wick of a candle, d. et temperare filum candelae, Juv. 3, 287: the sisters who r. the span of human life, quae dispensant mortalia fila sorores, Ov. H. 12, 3: ill r.d liberty, male dispensata libertas, Sen. Ben. 1, 10, 2. Join: d. et componere, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142.
      4. 4. tempĕro, 1: the water is so r.d that it fills it, but does not overflow, ita temperatur aqua ut impleat nec redundet, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 36: the water r.s its own flow, aqua se temperat ad rationem, Vitr. 9, 8, 10: to r. the market prices, annonam macelli temperare, Suet. Tib. 34.
      5. 5. mŏdĕro, 1: the causes by which the speech is entirely r.d, causae quibus totis moderatur oratio, Cic. Or. 16, 51: Dig. Phr.: to r. one's life according to a fixed principle, vitam ad certam normam dirigere, Cic. Mur. 2, 3: ad regulam quandam exaequare, Sen. Ep. 20, 3: we must so r. our actions that ..., talis est ordo actionum adhibendus ut ..., Cic. Off. 1, 40, 144: to r. oneself by anybody's will., se ad arbitrium alicujus fingere et accommodare, id. Or. 8, 24; formare et fingere, id. de Or. 3, 45, 177: to r. one's transactions by the times, commetiri cum tempore negotium, id. Inv. 1, 26., 39: nature so r.ing it, ita modulante natura, Plin. 2., 54, 55.
    2. II. To govern, manage: administro, 1: v. manage, rule.