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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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• resolve (v.):
    1. I. To separate into parts:
      1. 1. dissolvo, vi, lūtum, 3: if the soul is a harmony it will be r.d, si animus est harmonia dissolvetur, Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 24: we see that anything can be more rapidly r.d than reconstructed, quidvis citius dissolvi posse videmus quam refici, Lucr. 1, 556: as a medic. t. t. in Plin. 20, 12, 48 (in which sense also digerere, discutere are used by Plin. and Cels.): v. dissolve, melt.
      2. 2. dissĭpo, 1: others think the soul is r.d into its elements, alii animum censent dissipari, Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18: v. disperse, separate.
    2. II. To solve, explain:
      1. 1. dissolvo, vi, sŏlūtum, 3: how do you r. these points? illa quemadmodum dissolvitis? Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 29.
      2. 2. solvo, vi, sŏlūtum, 3 v. solve, explain.
    3. III. As t. t. in music: rĕsolvo, vi, lūtum, 3 (Kircher. Musurg. vol. i. p. 334, sq. Rome, 1650).
    4. IV. To determine:
      1. 1. stătuo, ui, ūtum, 3 (constr. with acc. and inf., rel. clause, or subj.): he had r.d to fight a battle, statuerat praelio decertare, Caes. B. C. 3, 86 they r. to send 10,000 men into the town, statuunt ut x millia hominum in oppidum mittantur, id. B. G. 7, 21: I had r.d to go straight along the Appian road to Rome, statueram recta Appia Romam (sc. ire), Cic. Att. 16, 10.
      2. 2. constituo, ui, ūtum, 3 (constr. mostly with inf.): he r.d to wage war, bellum gerere constituit, Caes. B. G. 4, 6.
      3. 3. dēcerno, crēvi, crētum, 3: he had r.d to cross the Rhine, Rhenum transire decreverat, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: to r. to spend the rest of one's days far from public life, reliquam aetatem a re publica procul habendam d., Sall. C. 4.
      4. 4. dēlībĕro, 1 (mostly in part.): he had determined and r.d not to be present, statuerat et deliberaverat non adesse, Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 1. Join: d. et constituere, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25.
      5. 5. obstĭno, 1 (rarely absol. foll. by inf., to be r.d on: constr. with acc., ad, or inf.): they had r.d to conquer or to die, obstinaverant animis aut vincere aut mori, Liv. 23, 29: v. determine.
      6. 6. indūco, xi, ctum, 3 (constr. with animum or in animum, and a foll. inf. or subj.): to r. to speak about divination, animum i. de divinatione dicere, Cic. Div. 1, 13, 22: to r. to labour and to watch, in animum i., laborare, vigilare, Sall. C. 54.
      7. 7. expr. by certum est (constr. with dat. of person r.ing): I have r.d to say everything, certum est deliberatumque omnia dicere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 11, 31: I have r.d to go to a physician, certum est, ibo ad medicum, Pl. Merc. 2, 4, 4.
      8. 8. expr. sometimes by fut. part.: r.d nowhere to trust himself to fortune, nullo loco fortunae se commissurus, Liv. 22, 12, ad init.: they go to battle r.d to die, *vadunt in praelium perituri, Nägelsb. Stil. p. 313. Phr.: I am r.d, consilium est mihi, Cic. Att. 5, 5: news is brought that the Helvetians were r.d to march, renuntiatur Helvetiis esse in animo iter facere, Caes. B. G. 1, 10: if I were not firmly and unalterably r.d, si mihi non animo fixuro immotumque sederet, Virg. Aen. 4, 15: if I were quite r.d upon anything, si satis consilium quadam de re haberem, Cic. Att. 12, 50.
    5. V. To pass a formal resolution:
      1. 1. censeo, 2 (used prop. of the Senate: constr. with acc. and inf., or subj.): the Senate r.d that he should defend the Aedui, senatus censuit uti Aeduos defenderet, Caes. B. G. 1, 35: v. decree.
      2. 2. plăcet, plăcuit, and plăcĭtum est, 2 (to be approved or r.d on: constr. with acc. and inf., or subj. clause): it was r.d that letters should be written, placitum est ut epistolae scriberentur, Tac. A. 1, 36: Caes. B. G. 7, 15.