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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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• retirement:
    1. I. The act of retiring: v. foll. art.
    2. II. Seclusion:
      1. 1. secrētum (used in both sing. and pl.): deep and close r., altum abditumque s., Plin. Ep. 2, 17: to withdraw from the stage of the world into r., se a vulgo et scena in secreta removere, Hor. S. 2, 1, 71.
      2. 2. sēcessus, ūs: quiet and r., silentium et s., Quint. 10, 3, 28: to pass one's time in repose and r., tempus in otio s.que agere, Suet. Vesp. 4.
      3. 3. sōlĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. (solitariness: used in both sing. and pl.): to withdraw from the society of men into r., e coetu hominum in s. se recipere, Cic. Off. 3, 1, 2: so, secedere, Tac. Or. 9, extr.: to court r., solitudines sequi, Cic. Att. 12, 26. Join: s. et recessus, id. Att. 12, 26: he also connects it with otium, Off. 3, 1, 1 (q. v.).
      4. 4. ōtium (leisure, repose: poet. in pl.): to go into r., in otium venire, Cic. Att. 1, 7: to withdraw into secure r., in o. tuta recedere, Hor. S. 1, 1, 31: Sen.
      5. 5. quies, ētis, f. (rest): their r. is useful to mankind, quies eorum prodest hominibus, Sen. Ot. Sap. 6, 5. Join: q. et otium, Tac. Agr. 6.
      6. 6. sĭlentium: Tac. Agr. 3 (an enforced r.). Phr.: a place of r., sēcessus, ūs: v. retreat: a life of r., vita privata et quieta, Cic. Sen. 7, 22: to pass one's life in r., aetatem procul a republica habere, Sall. C. 4: to live in r. in the country, rure et procul coetu hominum vivere, Liv. 7, 5, extr.: he lives in the deepest r. in the country, latet abditus agro, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 5; so latēre, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 25; fallĕre, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 10; secubare, Prop. 2, 19, 41: I escape into the r. of my library, abdo me in bibliothecam, Cic. Fam. 7, 28, 2.