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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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• religion:
      1. 1. relĭgio (rellĭgio; so always in poet.: a term of wide import, including all feelings and manifestations of reverence, even to superstition): r. which consists in the pious worship of the gods, r. quae deorum pio cultu continetur, Cic. N. D. 1, 42, 117: to embrace the worship of the gods and pure r., cultum deorum et puram r. suscipere, id. Leg. 1, 23, 60: there are limits to r.; we ought not to be over superstitious, modus est quidam religionis: nimium esse superstitiosum non oportet, Auct. Dom. 40, 105: every state has its own r., sua cuique civitati r. est, id. Flac. 28, 69: the r. of the Jews, r. Judaeorum, id. ib. 28, 68: the r. of the Christians, r. Christianorum, Sulp. Sev. Chron. 2, 30: a heathen r., r. profana, Firm. Mat. 21, 1: to convert to the true r., ad veram r. reformare, Min. Fel. 1, 5: to conform to the established r., r. traditas colere, id. 6, 1 (cf. Liv. 5, 51), the rites of r., religionum caerimoniae, Cic. Rep. 2, 14: to be a teacher of r., perh. religiones interpretari, after Caes. B. G. 6, 13: a man of no r., contemptor religionum, Suet. Ner. 56.
      2. 2. expr. by sacra, ōrum, n. pl. (religious rites; esp. of private and family worship): the r. of Ceres, s. Cereris, Cic. Balb. 24, 55: the origin of the r., origo sacrorum, Liv. 39, 13: the ministers of r., antistites caerimoniarum et sacrorum, Auct. Dom. 39, 104: to follow the same form of r., iisdem uti sacris, after id. Off. 1, 17, 55: the Catholic r., the Lutheran r., *sacra Pontificia, Lutherana (Kr.): to change one's r., *ad alia sacra transire (Kr.).
      3. 3. piĕtas (prop. dutifulness: rare): r., p. adversus, erga deos, Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 73; Auct. Dom. 41, 107: v. piety. Phr.: the Christian r., Christiana fides, Sulp. Sev. 2, 31: a follower of the Christian r., Christianae legis studiosus, Amm. 25, 10, 15: an offence against r., sacrum commissum, Lex in Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 21: it was an offence against r. to eat the produce, religiosum erat consumere fructum, Liv. 2, 5: the whole state became entirely devoted to r., civitas tota in cultum versa deorum, id. 1, 21: to be the minister of r., perh. rebus divinis interesse, Caes. B. G. 6, 13; cf. Cic. Div. 1, 4, 7: a system of r., *formula rerum divinarum (Kr.): v. theology.