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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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• shorten (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
      1. 1. contrăho, xi, ctum, 3: and now mid-day had s.'d the shadows of things, jamque dies medius rerum contraxerat umbras, Ov. M. 3, 144: to s. the times for speaking, tempora dicendi c., Quint. 6, 5, 4.
      2. 2. coarcto (coarto), 1 (to limit): to s. the time for celebrating the nuptials, tempus sponsas habendi c., Suet. Aug. 34; to s. the consulships of the others, consulatus aliorum c., Tac. H. 2, 71.
      3. 3. more freq. expr.. by circuml.: (winter) s.s the days, *dies breviores facit s. reddit: to s. the time of speaking, *dicendi tempus angustius reddere: v. short. Phr.: to s. syllables, syllaba corripere, Quint. 1, 5, 18. See also to abridge, contract, diminish.
  2. B. Intrans.: expr. by pass. refl. of verbs under (A); or act. with pron. refl.: the days s. gradually, *sensim dies breviores fiunt, redduntur: human life has s.'d, *hominum vitae spatium in angustius coactum est.