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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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• root (v.):
    1. I. Lit., to strike roots, become rooted:
      1. 1. rādīces agere: Ov. R. A. 106 (r. altius agere, to r. the more deeply): Cic. (fig.): also, r. capere, Cato, R. R. 133. Cf. Virg. G. 2, 291, radice ad Tartara tendere, to r. downwards.
      2. 2. rādīcor, 1 (only as gardener's word: rare): vine-layers readily r., mergi facile r., Col. 4, 2, 2.
      3. 3. comprehendo, tĕneo (to get hold of the ground, viz. by means of root-fibres): v. root, subs. (I., 2). Poet. phr. terrae (= in terra) defigi: Virg. G. 2, 290.
    2. II. Meton., only in p. part. rooted, i. e. rendered motionless, by fear or some other cause.
      1. 1. expr. by fixus, defixus (strengthened from preced.): the Gauls stood r.d, (to the ground) with fear, pavore defixi steterunt, Liv. 5, 39: I stood r.'d (to the ground), stabam defixus, Calp. 7, 37.
      2. 2. by stŭpeo, 2, obstŭpesco, 3 (to be or become stupified with amazement, etc.): cf. Virg. Aen. 1, 495, stupet obtutuque haeret defixus in uno: also, Hor. Od. 2, 13, 13, carminibus stupens (rooted to the spot, lost in admiration): v. amazed, STUPIFIED, TO BE.
      3. 3. insĕro, sēvi, sĭtum, 3 (to implant).
    3. III. Fig., to be or become r.'d., i. e. firmly established.
      1. 1. invĕtĕro, 1, or inveterasco, 3, the opinion has become r.'d, inveteravit opinio, Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 1: a deeply r.'d hatred, invidia inveterata, id. Cluent. 1, 1.
      2. 2. inhaereo, si, sum, 2: to be deeply r.'d in the mind, i. in mentibus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 33. Join: (opinio) inhaerens et penitus insita, ib. 4, 11, 26.
      3. 3. exp. by fīgo, xi, xum, 3 (plant or fix): this evil has r.'d itself so deeply, adeo penitus hoc se malum fixit, Sen. Tranq. 15, 5: if this were not a r.'d principle with me, si mihi non animo fixum ... sederet, Virg. Aen. 4, 15.