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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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• ride (v.):
    1. I. Intrans.:
      1. 1. ĕquĭto, 1 (used act. in late authors): to r. amongst our army, e. in exercitu nostro, Cic. Deiot. 10, 28: to r. on a long reed, e. in arundine longa, Hor. S. 2, 3, 248: the south-east wind rode over the Sicilian main, eurus per Siculas equitavit undas, id. Od. 4, 4, 44.
      2. 2. vĕhor, vectus sum, 3 (used as a dep.: to be carried on a beast, or in a vehicle): the horse on which I was r.ing, equus in quo ego vehebar, Cic. Div. 2, 68, 140: to r. full speed towards the foe, equo concitato ad hostem v., Nep. Dat. 4, 5: r.ing in a four-horse chariot, quadrijugis vehens, Cic. Brut. 97, 331: to r. in a one-horse vehicle, uno equo vehi, Liv. 28, 9: to r. on a fish's back, pisce v., Ov. M. 2, 13.
      3. 3. vector, 1 (prop. freq. of preced.: rare): to r. on the shoulders of one's foes, v. humeris inimicis, Hor. Epod. 17, 74: Ov.
      4. 4. gestor, 1 (esp. of exercise taken for health or pleasure): to r. in a two-horse chariot, g. bijugis equis, Mart. 1, 12, 8: Sen.: Suet.
      5. 5. sĕdeo, sēdi, sessum, 2 (to sit: in late authors also pass., to be ridden): to r. on a horse, s. equo, Mart. 5, 38, 4, Spart. Phr.: (i.) to r., ire equis, Liv. 1, 14: in equis, Ov. A. A. 1, 214: super equos, Just. 41, 3: incedere equo, id. ib.: to r. in a chariot, ire curru, Liv. 28, 9: he rode rapidly in gigs a distance of 56 miles, LVI millia passuum cisiis pervolavit, Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: the boy does not know how to ride, nescit puer equo haerere, Hor. Od. 3, 24, 54: Cic.: one who r.s in a vehicle, gestator, Mart. 4, 64, 19. (ii.) to r. at anchor, in ancoris consistere, Caes. B. C. 3, 28: to r. upon the main, v. sail. (iii.) bedridden, lecto affixus, Hor. Sat. 1, 1, 81: Sen.: priest-ridden, *sacerdotibus nimis deditus, after Cic. Brut. 62, 223.
    2. II. Trans.: only found in certain phr., as, to r. a horse, equo vehi, v. preced., and exercise, drive: to r. a race, perh. *equis certamen inire, after Tac. A. 11, 11.