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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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• shut (v.):
      1. 1. claudo, si, sum, 3: to s. (in) the pupils, lest anything should get into the eye, ad claudendas pupulas, ne quid incideret, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142: to s. the door of the bedchamber, forem cubiculi c., id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59: to s. the eyes (of a dying person), ocellos (oculos) c., Prop. 2. 13, 17: Lucan 5, 28. Fig.: to s. the ears (i. e. to instruction), aures c., Cic. Tusc. 4, 1, 2. Comp.: occlūdo, si, sum, 3 (to s. or close up): v. to shut up.
      2. 2. ŏpĕrio, ui, ertum, 4 (opp. to aperio: to s. by a covering, as a pot by putting the lid on): to s. the door, fores o., Pl. Men. 2, 3, 1: so, ostium o., Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 33: to s. the eyes (i. e. before going to sleep, opp. to oculos patefacere): oculos o., Plin. 11, 37, 55.
      3. 3. comprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3 (to bring close together: only used of the hands and eyes): to s. the hands so as to make a fist, manus in pugnum c., Quint. 2, 20, 7: to s. the eyes (an act of the will), oculos c., id. 11, 3, 76.
      4. 4. obdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (by barring or bolting): to s. the door, forem o., Pl. Casin. 5, 2, 15: the doors having been s. behind, obditis a tergo foribus, Tac. A. 13, 5.
      5. 5. obtūro, 1 (to stop up, as with a stopple or a lid): Pl.: Vitr. Phr.: to s. one's eyes to anything, in aliqua re connivere, Cic. Phil. 1, 7, fin.: v. to wink.