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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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• search (v.):
  1. A. Intrans.: to institute a search:
      1. 1. scrūtor, 1 (oftener trans.): Sen. Ir. 3, 36 (totum diem mecum scrutor).
      2. 2. rīmor, 1 (to pry into: usu. with object expr.: v. infr. II.): Virg. Aen. 7, 508. Not only scrutor, but other trans. verbs of searching may be used with obj. understood: e. g.: s. carefully and you will find, *quaere diligenter, et reperies. (Not however excutio, which must have acc. of person or thing s.'d.) Phr.: to s. everywhere, investigare et perscrutari omnia, Cic. Verr. 4, 21, 47.
  2. B. Trans.: to examine by s.ing:
      1. 1. scrūtor, 1: to s. secret places, abdita loca s., Sall. Jug. 12: Cic. Strengthened, perscrūtor, 1: Cic.
      2. 2. excŭtio, ssi, ssum, 3, (strictly, to examine by shaking a person's dress, in order to discover anything secreted): they ordered him to be s.'d, [ut] excuti (eum) juberent, Phaedr. 5, 5, 19. Cic. Join: non excutio te [si quid forte ferri habuisti], non scrutor, Cic. R. Am. 34, 97.
      3. 3. rīmor, 1 (to ransack every corner, to pry into: not in Cic.): Tac. H. 2, 29 (ipsam humum pilis lanceisque rimabantur, viz., in s. of Valens): Virg. Phr.: to s. sea and land, terra marique omnia exquirere, Sall. Cat. 13.