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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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• sea (subs.):
      1. 1. măre: (most gen. term: sea as opp. to land): on s. and land, terra marique, Sall. Cat. 13, et pass.: the s. is a destruction to sailors, exilium est mare nautis, Hor. Od. 1, 28, 18: the ship-bearing s., mare navigerum, Lucr. 1, 3. Also used for a particular s.: the upper (Ionian) s., superum m.. Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 69: our (Mediterranean) s., nostrum m., Caes. B. G. 5, 1: the Tuscan s., mare Tyrrhenum, Hor. Od. 1, 11, 5: the Atlantic s., mare Atlanticum, Mela, 3, 1.
      2. 2. aequor, ŏris, n. (prop. a level surface: hence the expanse of the s.: poet.): we run over the s. in our ship, trabe currimus ae., Virg. Aen. 3, 191: the too boisterous s., imperiosius ae., Hor. Od. 1, 14, 8: v. oft. p.: he calms the swollen s., tumida aequora placat, Virg. Aen. 1., 143. Also for a particular s., ib. 67 (Tyrrhenum aequor).
      3. 3. pĕlăgus, i, n. (the open s.: chiefly poet.): spread your sails to the open s., p. da vela patenti, Virg. Georg. 2, 41: when the s. was in a storm, saeviente pelago, Tac. Ann. 15, 46: they began to push for the (open) s., pelagus petere coeperunt, Auct. B. Hisp. 40.
      4. 4. pontus (the deep s.; the ocean: chiefly poet.): a long tract of s., longus p., Hor. Od. 3, 3, 38: the waters of the s., aequora ponti, Virg. Georg. 1, 469. Specially, the Euxine s., tumens P., Ov. Met. 15, 756: here the vast Euxine s. opens itself, sese ingens P. aperit, Mel. 1, 19.
      5. 5. ōcĕănus: v. ocean. Other more exceptional or ornamental phrr. are (1) sălum (the salt s.): the s. over-powering us, superante salo, Virg. Aen. 1, 537: he kept his ship at anchor in the (open) s., procul ab insula in salo navem tenuit in ancoris, Nep. Them. 8: also, sal, sălis, m.: the face of the calm s., salis placidi vultus, Virg. Aen. 5, 848: on the Tuscan s., sale Tyrrheno, ib. 6, 697: (2) frĕtum (prop. a narrow s. or strait: v. strait): the wave of the Libyan s., Libyci unda freti, Ov. Fast. 3, 568: esp. pl., while rivers shall run into s.s, in freta dum fluvii current, Virg. Aen. 1, 607: (3) văda, orum, pl. (strictly, shallows = aequora: also used poet.): ships overleap the bounds of the s., rates transiliunt v., Hor. Od. 1, 3, 24: (4) marmor, ŏris, n. (prop. a smooth, marble-like surface): the oars struggle in the sluggish s., in lento luctantur m. tensae, Virg. Aen. 7, 28: as many waves as roll in the Libyan s., quam multi Libyco volvuntur marmore fluctus, ib. 7, 8: (5) altum (the deep: mare being understood; in oblique cases only: both poet. and prose): to project into the s., eminere in altum, Liv. 44, 11: (ships) carried out to s., in altum provectae, Caes. B. G. 4, 28: (6) Neptūnus (meton.: poet.): if Eurus have sunk them in the s., si praeceps Neptuno immerserit Eurus, Virg. Georg. 4, 29: (7) names of special portions of the s.: s. of Azof, Palus Maeōtis, Plin. H. N. 2, 67, 67: Red s., Sinus Arabicus, ib. Phr.: to put to s.: (1) solvo, vi, ūtum, 3; with or without navem or ancoram expressed: Caes. B. G. 4, 36 (solvere naves): they embarked and put to s., naves conscenderunt et e terra solverunt, id. B. C. 3, 101: Cic.: after having put to s., ancora soluta, Cic. Att. 1, 13, init. So, funem solvere, Virg. Aen. 5, 773: cf. phaselum solvere, Hor. Od. 3, 2, 29: (2) prōvĕhor, ctus, 3 (to push out): the ships having put to s. later, serius a terra provectae naves, Caes. B. C. 3, 8: (3) conscendo, 3: v. to embark. To be at s., nāvĭgo, 1: I have written this while at s., haec scripsi navigans, Cic. Att. 16, 7, extr.: so, in alto navigare, id. Inv. 2, 51, 153: to be at s., in fig. sense, i. e. in doubt: fluctuo, 1: Sen. Ep. 52: to be quite at s., in summo versari errore, Cic. N. D. 1, 1, 2: I am not one whose mind is at s., non sumus ii quorum animus vagetur errore, id. Off. 2, 2, 7: a s. of troubles: fluctus (pl.), Nep. Att. 6: Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 3: in the s. of business, rerum fluctibus in mediis, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 85: salum aerumnosum, Cic. Tusc. 3, 28, 67: tumultuosum mare, Hor. Od. 2, 1, 16: half-s.s over: tēmulentus, Cic. Sest. 9, 20: ūdus, Mart. 5, 85, 5: ex vino vacillans, Cic. in Quint. 8, 3, 66.