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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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• rule (v.):
  1. A. Trans.: to govern:
      1. 1. rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3 (with acc.: most gen. term): Cic.: Virg.
      2. 2. mŏdĕror, 1 (in this sense, with acc.): r.ing the seas, maria moderantem, Cic. N. D. 3, 39, 93. Join: regit et moderatur, id. Somn. Sc. 8.
      3. 3. tempĕro, 1 (to restrain, regulate: with acc. or dat.): he r.s their passions, temperat iras, Virg. Aen. 1, 57: r.d his anger, temperavit irae (dat.), Liv. 33, 20.
      4. 4. impĕro, impĕrĭto, 1: v. to govern.
  2. B. Intrans.:
    1. I. To possess power:
      1. 1. dŏmĭnor, 1: to r. over the other animals, dominari in cetera animalia, Ov. Met. 1, 77: the Danai r. in the city, dominantur in urbe, Virg. Aen. 2, 327: dominor is used with a dat. in later writers only, Zumpt, § 413.
      2. 2. regno, 1: while Greece was still r.ing, regnante jam Graecia, Cic. Brut. 10, 41: (Clodius thinks) that he shall r. when Milo has been killed, Milone interfecto se regnaturum, id. Mil. 16, 43.
      3. 3. praesum, fui (with dat.): over which countries four kings r.d, quibus regionibus quatuor reges praeerant, Caes. B. G. 5, 22 he had r.d with kindness, clementer praefuerat, Liv. 34, 40. Phr.: while she (Athens) r.d, dum ea rerum potita est, Cic. Rosc. Am. 25, 70: Claudius who then r.d supreme, qui tum erat summo in imperio, id. Fin. 2, 20, 66: poet., imperii frena tenere, Ov. Trist. 2, 42: imperii frena moderari, id. Pont. 2, 9, 33: sceptra tenere, id. Her. 16, 176: v. to reign.
    2. II. To lay down a decision in a court: r. in court of law:
      1. 1. ēdīco, xi, ctum: Cic. Verr. 1, 46, 118.
      2. 2. dēcerno, crēvi, crētum: ib. 119.
    3. III. Of a custom
      1. 1. obtĭneo, ui, 2: a custom which formerly r.d, consuetudo quae retro obtinuit, Ulp. Dig. 1, 16, 7: v. to prevail.
      2. 2. păteo, ui, 2 (to extend, have influence): in which avarice r.s widely, in quo latissime patet avaritia, Cic. Off. 1, 7, 24: this precept r.s more widely, patet latius, id. Tusc. 3, 24, 58.