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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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• slave (subs.):
      1. 1. servus, f., -a (but see No. 6): a s., the child of a female s., s. servaque natus, Liv. 1, 47: a public s., s. publicus, Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 24: a runaway s., fugitivus (sc. servus: cf. Vatin. in Cic. Fam. 5, 9), Hor. S. 2, 5, 16. Fig.: to be the s. of lusts, libidinum s. esse, Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12: we are the s.s of law in order that we may be able to be free, legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus, id. Clu. 53, 146. Dimin.: servulus, id. Caecin. 20, 58: f., -a, id. Att. 1, 12: [Tert. has serviculus].
      2. 2. verna, comm. (a home-born s.): saucy s.s., v. procaces, Hor. S. 2, 6, 66: a s. boy, verna puer, id. ib. 1, 2, 117: Pl. Dimin.: vernula, Juv. 10, 117.
      3. 3. fămŭlus, f. -a, Virg. (esp. freq. in poet.: a domestic): opp. to herus, Cic. Off. 2, 7, 24. Fig.: virtue is the s. of fortune, virtus est f. fortunae, id. Tusc. 5, 1, 2. Join: ministra et f., id. ib. 1, 31, 75.
      4. 4. mancĭpium (a s. obtained by a peculiar form of purchase: v. Dict. Antiq.): s.s bought for money, m. argento parata, Liv. 41, 6, ad fin.: Hor.: Cic.
      5. 5. puer, ĕri (a boy, attendant): Hor. Od. 1, 38, 1: Cic.
      6. 6. ancilla (a female slave: far more freq. than serva: fig. it is also applied to men): male and female s.s love this man, hunc servi a.que amant, Cic. Verr. 3, 4, 8: Fufidius, a vile s., the disgrace of all posts of honour, Fufidius, a. turpis, honorum omnium dehonestamentum, Sall. H. 1, 15. Dimin.: ancillula, Sen. Ep. 47, 17.
      7. 7. expr. by certain collective words: (i.) fămĭlia (the domestics): the s.s of Mars, f. Martis, Cic. Clu. 15, 43: s.s for sale, f. venalis, Pollio in Quint. 7, 2, 26: so also famulatio, App.: famulitium, Macr. (ii.) servĭtium: such are s.s now-a-days, ita nunc s. est, Pl. Curc. 2, 3, 21: Cic. Coel. 32, 78. (iii.) servĭtus: Hor. Od. 2, 8, 18. (iv.) vēnālĭcia, s.s, Ulp. Dig. 28, 8, 5.
      8. 8. expr. by words indicating his special office or condition: an under s., vicarius, Cic. Verr. 1, 36, 93: f. -a, Inscr.: a s. of all work, mĕdiastīnus, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 14: a s. who tells the names of those he meets, nōmenclātor, Cic. Mur. 36, 77: an old s., veterator, Venul. Dig. 21, 1, 65: a s. for sale, venalis, Cic. Verr. 5, 56, 146: novitius, Quint. 8, 2, 8: a fellow s., conservus, Cic. Fam. 12, 3, 2: f. -a, Pl.: Ov. Dimin.: conservula, Sen.: the husband or wife of a slave, contubernalis, Col.: the cohabitation of s.s was called contubernium, id. Phr.: to sell as a s., sub corona vendere, Caes. B. G. 3, 16 (from the old custom of selling captives). a band of s.s, manus servilis, Hor. Ep. 4, 19. vernacula multitudo, Tac. A. 1, 31. a revolt of the s.s, tumultus servilis, Caes. B. G. 1, 40: the private property of a s., peculium, v. Dict. Antiq.