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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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• require:
    1. I. To demand.
      1. 1. postŭlo, 1: they begin to ask, to r., to threaten, incipiunt poscere, p., minari, Cic. Verr. 3, 34, 78: he r.d rather than requested, postulabat magis quam petebat, Curt. 4, 1, 8.
      2. 2. exĭgo, ēgi, actum, 3: to r. hostages, e. obsides, Caes. B. C. 3, 12: to r. rather than ask what he seeks, id quod petat e. magis quam rogare, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 1.
      3. 3. posco, pŏposci, 3 (constr. with two acc. in act. and one in pass.: the person asked in abl. after ab: cf. Lat. Gram. § 244: to ask: hence freq. to ask urgently, r.): to r. their children as hostages, p. liberos obsides, Caes. B. G. 1, 31: to r. the slaves who had fled to them to be delivered up for punishment, servos qui ad eos perfugissent p., id. ib. 1, 27: not merely to wish but to r. and demand, non desiderare solum sed etiam p. et flagitare, Cic. Verr. 5, 28, 71.
      4. 4. rĕposco, 3: to r. of another an account of his life, r. ab altero rationem vitae, Cic. Verr. 3, 1, 1: to r. an account of their success or failure, r. aut prospera, aut adversa, Tac. H. 3, 13, extr.: Virg.: Ov.
      5. 5. exposco, 3; deposco, 3: v. demand.
    2. II. To need:
      1. 1. ĕgeo, 2: v. need.
      2. 2. rĕquīro, quīsīvi or ĭi, ītum, 3: the affair r.d great energy, res magnam diligentiam requirebat, Caes. B. G. 6, 34: so that we r. nothing further, ut nihil sit praeterea nobis requirendum, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 3.
      3. 3. quaero, quaesīvi or ĭi, ītum, 3: to r. an orator's eloquence, q. eloquentiam oratoris, Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 29: Liv. (The freq. quaerĭto, 1, occurs in Pl.)
      4. 4. posco, pŏposci, 3: what the matter seemed to r., quod res p. videbatur, Caes. B. G. 7, 1.
      5. 5. postŭlo, 1 (rare): as the nature of the case shall r., ut causae natura postulabit, Cic. Or. 36, 125: Plin.
      6. 6. fĕro, tŭli, lātum, 3 (to render necessary): if your convenience shall r. it, si commodum vestrum feret, Cic. Agr. 2, 28, 77: as our circumstances r., ut tempora nostra ferunt, id. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 5. Join: f. et postulare, id. Verr. 5, 40, 105.
      7. 7. dēsīdĕro, 1 (to feel need of): virtue r.s no other reward, nullam virtus aliam mercedem desiderat, Cic. Arch. 11, 28: the vines r. to be watered, (vites) desiderant rigari, Plin. 17, 26, 40: v. want. Phr.: it r.s great labour, est magni laboris, Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 150: you will determine as my integrity, reputation, and position shall seem to r., statues ut ex fide, fama, reque mea videbitur, id. Att. 5, 8, extr.: as the circumstances of the time r., pro tempore et pro re, Caes. B. G. 5, 8.