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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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• retain:
    1. I. To keep in one's possession:
      1. 1. rĕtĭneo, ui, tentum, 2: to r. what he had received, r. quod acceperat, Cic. Pis. 28, 69: to r. the citadel, arcem r., id. de Or. 2, 67, 273: to r. the memory of anything, r. memoriam alicujus or aliquid memoria, Cic.: Caes.: v. memory.
      2. 2. obtĭneo, 2: v. maintain, KEEP POSSESSION.
      3. 3. tĕneo, ui, ntum, 2 (to hold): to r. their own laws, t. suas leges, Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 4, 13: to r. a custom, t. consuetudinem, id. Phil. 1, 11, 27: it is believed that he r.'d the name of every soldier, omnium militum tenuisse creditum est nomina, Quint. 11, 2, 50: v. hold.
      4. 4. servo, 1: the jar will long r. the scent, servabit odorem testa diu, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 69: v. keep, preserve.
    2. II. To keep in one's pay or service: ălo, ălui, ălĭtum and altum, 3 (to nourish): v. maintain (VI.): or hăbeo, 2: I do not r. a single slave, ego servum habeo nullum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 145: Caes. B. G. 1, 30.