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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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• sink (v.):
  1. A. Intrans.:
    1. I. To settle downwards:
      1. 1. sīdo, di, 3: (gum) s.s in water, in aqua sidit, Plin. 12, 25, 54 § 121: to s. into ashes (as a house consumed in the flames), in cineres s., Prop. Fig.: to s. by its own weight (of an empire), pessum sua mole s., Sen. Const. Sap. 2 (pessum = pedes versum, downwards). Comps. (1) consīdo, sēdi, 3 (strengthened from preced., to s. down altogether, esp. on a large scale): (all Troy appeared) to s. down into the flames, c. in flammas, Virg. Aen. 2, 624: the Alps may now (without danger) s. down, Alpes jam licet considant, Cic. Prov. 14, 34: Col. (2) dēsīdo, sēdi, 3 (to s. down; to the bottom): Cic. Div. 1, 35, fin.: Varr. (3) rĕsīdo, sēdi, 3 (to s. again; subside after rising): every gust of wind sank, omnis resedit flatus, Virg. Aen. 7, 27: opp. to surgere, Ov. Am. 1, 1, 27; to attolli, Plin. Ep. 5, 17, 2 (of the rising and s.ing of the subject of a poem). (4) subsīdo, 3: the valleys s., s. valles, Ov. M. 1, 43: the streams s. (after flood), flumina s., ib. 243: v. to subside.
      2. 2. ruo, i, rŭtum, 3 (to s. with violence, go suddenly to ruins: whereas sido and comps. denote gradual settling down): Troy s.s headlong from its lofty height, r. alto a culmine Troja, Virg. Aen. 2, 290. So, corruo, 3 (to s. all in ruins): Cic. Top. 3, 15: Quint.
      3. 3. collābor, lapsus, 3 (to s. or fall in ruins): Liv.: Suet. Very oft. of persons s.ing in a swoon: he sank to the ground and lay for a long time half dead, collapsus diu prope intermortuus jacuit, Suet. Ner. 42: Virg.
      4. 4. when the sense is to be swallowed up, as in water, expr. by mergo, immergo, dēmergo, submergo, si, sum, 3; either as pass. refl. or in act. with pron. refl.: many ships being pierced through s., multae naves rostris perforatae merguntur, Auct. B. Alex. 46: Bootes s.s in the deep ocean, Bootes alto mergitur oceano, Cat. 66, 68 almost engulphed in the mud and s.ing (deeper and deeper), hausti paene limo immergentesque se, Liv. 22, 2: s.ing in the waters of the river, demersus fluminis undis, Ov. M. 14, 615. Fig.: a house sunk in destruction, domus demersa exitio, Hor. Od. 3, 16, 3. Phr.: the ships being overladen sank to the bottom, naves nimio onere pressas mare hausit, Tac. H. 3, 77: v. to swallow up.
    2. II. To penetrate deep: descendo, di, sum, 3: the weapon had not sunk deep into the body, ferrum haud alte in corpus descendisse, Liv. 1, 41. Fig., of the impression made by anything said: that remark sank deeper into Jugurtha's heart than ..., quod verbum in pectus Jugurthae altius quam ... descendit, Sall. Jug. 11.
    3. III. To be in a declining state; go to destruction: ruo, pessum eo or sīdo, lābor, etc.: v. ruin, I., Phr. See also supr. (I.).
    4. IV. To lower oneself, yield to indulgences: Phr.: to s. in indolence and sensuality, ad inertiam et voluptatem corporis pessum dari (or as one word), Sall. Jug. 1. to s. into sensuality, in flagitia se ingurgitare: v. to plunge (B.).
    5. V. To fall, decline; as prices: cădo, 3; etc.. v. to fall (IV.).
  2. B. Trans.:
    1. I. To cause to go to the bottom:
      1. 1. dēprĭmo, pressi, ssum, 3: to s. a plough deep in the soil, aratrum d., Virg. G. 1, 45 esp. to s. a ship (act of war), navem d., Caes. B. C. 1, 58. Cic.
      2. 2. submergo, 3 (to submerge: not denoting, as deprimo does, a hostile act): he sunk a ship at the entrance of the harbour, faucibus portus navem submersam objecit, Caes. B. C. 3, 39: v. to submerge.
      3. 3. dēmergo, 3 (like deprimo, to send to the bottom): Auct. B. Alex. 25 (quum triremem hostium perforasset et demersisset). See also to plunge.
    2. II. To lower: Phr.: to s. a well, puteum demittere [alte], Virg. G. 2, 231: also, p. agere [e. g. in centum pedes], Plin. 17, 8, 4: p. defodere, id. 37, 9, 43 (al. depressis puteis).
    3. III. To lower, degrade; take up completely: esp. in pass., to be sunk in anything: Phr.: the whole plebeian order was deeply sunk in debt, totam plebem aere alieno demersam esse, Liv. 2, 29 (v. debt): sunk in deep sleep and wine, somno vinoque sepultus, Virg. Aen. 2, 265: to be sunk in grief, in moerore jacere, Cic. Att. 10, 4: cf. Lucr. 1, 63, humana quum vita jaceret ... oppressa gravi sub religione, i. e. sunk beneath grievous superstition: sunk in vice, vitiis deditus; qui se in flagitia ingurgitavit, immersit: v. devoted to, also, to plunge (fin.).
    4. IV. To invest: collŏco, 1: v. to invest (III.).
    5. V. To waste, dissipate: v. to squander.