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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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• shatter (v.):
    1. I. To dash into pieces:
      1. 1. frango, frēgi, fractum, 3: v. to break. More adequately expr. by comps.: (1). confringo, 3: by kicking against them with my feet I nearly s.'d these two doors, pultando pedibus pene confregi hasce ambas fores, Pl. Most. 2, 2, 25: trees s.'d by the violence of the storm, arbores vi tempestatis confractae, Ulp. Dig. 39, 2, 24. (2). perfringo, 3 (rare in this sense): the ships had s.'d their prows, naves proras perfregerant, Liv. 22, 20, init. (3). effringo, 3 (to dash out by a violent blow): cf. Virg. Aen. 5, 480, effracto illisit in ora cerebro.
      2. 2. discŭtio, cussi, cussum, 3 (to rend in pieces): the column was s.'d by lightning from the top to the bottom, columna tota ad imum fulmine discussa est, Liv. 42, 20: to s. the hollow temples with one blow, d. tempora cava ictu, Ov. M. 2, 625: the prow of the ship being s.'d, rostro navis discusso, Auct. B. Alex. 46.
      3. 3. ēlīdo, si, sum, 3 (to dash out or in pieces by a violent blow): to s. ships (as a storm does), naves e., Caes. B. C. 3, 27: Pl.
      4. 4. quasso, 1 (to shake violently, damage by shaking): the vessels being s.'d, quassatis vasis, Lucr. 3, 435: the fleet being s.'d by storms, classis ventis quassata, Virg. Aen. 1, 551. So, quassas rates, s.'d barks, Hor. Od. 1, 1, 18. Comp. conquasso, 1 (rare): to s. a cup, calicem c., Cato R. R. 52, fin.
    2. II. Fig. sense:
      1. 1. frango, 3: esp. in p. part., fractus: s.'d by defeats and calamities, proeliis calamitatibusque fractus, Caes. B. G. 1, 33, med.: Virg. So, comps. (1). infringo, 3: this battle so s.'d the power of the Samnites, hoc proelium Samnitium res ita infregit, Liv. 8, 39, med.: v. to impair. (2). confringo, 3 (stronger): Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5, 13: Val. Max.
      2. 2. commĭnuo, i, ūtum, 3 (strictly, to break into small pieces): to s. the resources of a state, opes civitatis c., Cic. Verr. 5, 37, extr. Join: frangere et comminuere, id. Off. 2, 11, fin.
      3. 3. sometimes, dēbĭlĭto, 1 (to disable): cf. Nep. Ages. 5, quum eo facto opes adversariorum debilitatae viderentur (quite s.'d and overthrown). Phr.. s.'d in constitution, *cujus corporis vires morbo [laboribus, etc.] confectae sunt: cujus corporis vires [vitiis, etc.] effetae sunt: cf. Cic. Sen. 9, 29.