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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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• retreat (v.):
      1. 1. rĕcĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (to draw back: hence with pron. refl., to r.) to r. to the camp, r. se in castra, Caes. B. C. 3, 76: there was an opportunity of r.ing, sui recipiendi facultas dabatur, id. B. G. 3, 4: Cic.: Liv.
      2. 2. rĕfĕro, retŭli (rettŭli), rĕlātum, 3 (syn. of preced.: constr. with pedem or gradum): to r., r. pedem, Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8; Caes.: so with retro, Phaedr. 2, 1, 6: gradum, Liv. 1, 14, ad fin.; and as milit. t. t. r. signa, id. 38, 2, ad med. Fig.: to r. as quietly as possible, quam mollissime pedem r., Quint. 6, 4, 19. (N.B.--Recipere se is not to r., but simply to go back, return.)
      3. 3. rĕcēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 (to go back): to r. from their position, ex quo stabant loco r., Caes. B. G. 5, 43: v. retire. (N.B.--Retrocedentes occurs as a part. in Liv. 8, 8, ad med.)
      4. 4. rĕfŭgio, fūgi, fŭgĭtum, 3 (to flee for refuge): to r. to the roadstead, r. in stationem, Liv. 10, 2: v. TAKE REFUGE.
      5. 5. rĕsĭlio, ui, 3 (to leap back: in Cic. only fig.): the mountain range r.s on the north, mons a septentrione resilit, Plin. 5, 27, 27: v. recoil. Phr.: she r.s before the foe, pedem ex hoste reportat, Virg. Aen. 11, 764.