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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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• ruin (subs.):
    1. I. Utter destruction:
      1. 1. exĭtium, pernĭcies, etc.: v. destruction.
      2. 2. ruīna (downfall: a word always used with something of metaphor): in this universal r. ..., in hac rerum ruina, Liv. 26, 41, med.: r. of fortune (bankruptcy; breaking completely down), ruinae fortunarum, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 14: Hor. Phr.: to go to r., (1). ruo, i, rŭtum, 3 (to fall with violence; oft. in fig. sense): Cic. Verr. 5, 6, 12 (quae cum accidunt, nemo est quin intelligat ruere illam rempublicam): Hor. Strengthened, corruo, 3 (to go to utter r.: both lit. as a house, and fig.): Cic. Off. 1, 24, 84. (2). pessum eo, 4, irr. (lit. to go to the bottom: archaic, and not in Cic.): the finest plains of Italy would go to r., p. ituros fecundissimos Italiae campos, Tac. A. 1, 79. Also, pessum sīdo, 3: Sen. (3). ŏbeo, pĕreo (strengthened, dispereo), 4, irr.: v. to perish. (4). praecĭpĭto, 1 (to go headlong or with violence to r.): when the state was sinking headlong to r., praecipitante republica, Cic. Sall. 1, 1: Liv. (5). lābor, psus, 3 (to glide, fall, or waste away): cf. Cic. Or. 3, 10, cetera nasci, occidere, fluere, labi: also, Liv. 3, 33, init., eo citius res lapsa est = deteriorated, went to r. (6). dīlābor, 3 (to waste away and go to pieces: both lit. as a building, and fig.): fall to ruin, monumenta dilapsa, Lucr. 5, 311: the most admirably constituted commonwealth went to r., (ut) praeclarissime constituta respublica dilaberetur, Cic. Off. 2, 23, 80. (7). collābor, 3 (to go completely to decay, fall in ruins as a house): the roof of the house (appeared to) fall in r.s, fastigium domus collabi, Suet. Caes. 81: Liv. (8). poet. dare ruinam (to come down with a violent fall): Virg. Aen. 2, 310. Phr.: r. seize thee! dii te perduint! Cic. Deiot. 7, 21: Ter.
    2. II. Specially, seduction: stuprum (per vim illatum): v. seduction, rape.
    3. III. Usu. pl., broken parts, esp. of buildings:
      1. 1. ruīnae, arum (not so in Cic.): to rebuild temples out of the r.s of temples, ruinis templorum templa aedificare, Liv. 42, 3, fin.: Ov.
      2. 2. păriĕtīnae, arum (ruined walls, parietes: perh. ruinae understood): I was more impressed by the sight of the r.s of Corinth, magis me moverunt Corinthi p. aspectae, Cic. Tusc. 3, 22, 53: Plin.
      3. 3. perh. vestīgia, orum: v. traces, remains.
      4. 4. expr. by verb: nothing save the r.s of buildings, *nil praeter disjecta (dilapsa, of the effect of decay) aedificia: cf. Virg. Aen. 2, 608.
      5. 5. strāges, is, f. (as of a building thrown down): Tac. H. 1, 86 (strage obstantis molis refusus amnis).