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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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• scatter:
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To throw about:
      1. 1. spargo, si, sum, 3 (to strew): to s. money amongst the populace, s. numos populo, Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 16: to s. roses, s. rosas, Hor. Od. 3, 19, 22. Join: s. et disseminare, Cic. Arch. 12, 30: v. to sprinkle.
      2. 2. dissĭpo, 1 (to disperse): she s.'d the limbs of her brother about, dissipavit fratris sui membra, Cic. Man. 9, 22: to s. the enemy, hostes d., id. Fam. 2, 10, 2. Fig.: to s. cares, d. curas, Hor. Od. 2, 11, 17.
      3. 3. dispergo, si, sum, 3 (with perf. part. in reflect. sense): a multitude s.'d in every direction, dispersa in omnes partes multitudo, Caes. B. G. 6, 34. Join: d. et dissipati, id. B. G. 5, 28: fusi ac d., Cic. Sest. 42, 91. Fig.: to s. false reports, d. falsos rumores, Tac. H. 2, 96.
      4. 4. disjĭcio, jēci, jectum, 3 (freq. milit. term): to s. a column of soldiers, d. phalangem, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: the south-wind s.s the vessels, auster disjicit naves, Tac. A. 2, 23: to s. their corpses over the deep, d. corpora ponto, Virg. Aen. 1, 70. Fig.: topics unarranged and s.'d promiscuously up and down, res sparsae et vage disjectae, Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3.
      5. 5. dispello, pŭli, pulsum, 3 (to drive apart: rare): to s. the shades (of night), d. umbras, Virg. Aen. 5, 839: s.'d cattle, pecudes dispulsae, Cic. Att. 7, 7, ad fin.
      6. 6. discŭtio, cussi, cussum, 3: v. to break up.
      7. 7. fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3 (to pour forth, esp. as milit. term, to rout, q. v.): they rout and s. them whilst half asleep, semisomnos fugant f.que, Sall. Jug. 21. Fig.: blemishes which carelessness has s.'d (freely) throughout, maculae quae incuria fudit, Hor. A. P. 352.
      8. 8. diffĕro, distŭli, dīlātum, 3 (to bear away in different directions: rare): to s. embers, d. favillam, Lucr. 2, 676: Hor.
      9. 9. dissĕro, sĕro, 3: v. TO SPREAD ABROAD. Phr.: flight has s.'d my friends, fuga amicos distraxit, Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 2: the breezes s. everything, aurae omnia discerpunt, Virg. Aen. 9, 313: to s. armies, agmina diruere, Hor. Od. 4, 14, 30: to s. them abroad, agere diversos, Virg. Aen. 1, 70: to s. ashes over the fields, cinerem jactare per agros, id. G. 1, 81: the bodies of the slain lay s.'d about all over the field, corpora caesa toto campo ac prostrata diverse jacebant, Auct. B. Afr. 40, ad fin.
    2. II. To disperse; esp. in hostile sense:
  2. B. Intrans.:
      1. 1. expr. by preced. verbs with pron. reflect. or in pass.: to s. in flight in every direction, se in fugam passim spargere, Liv. 33, 15, ad fin.: 37, 20. cf. supr. (I, 2).
      2. 2. dīlābor, psus, 3 (esp. of armies, gradually diminishing and melting oway): Sall. Jug. 18 (exercitus amisso duce brevi dilabitur): Liv.