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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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• sleep (subs.):
      1. 1. somnus (the most gen. t. used also in pl., esp. in poet.) calm s., s. placidus, Ov. F. 3, 185; tranquillus, Sen. Ira, 3, 36, 2 quiet s., tacitus s., Tib. 2, 1, 89 gentle s., mollis s., Cat. 68, 5; pl., Virg. G. 2, 470; lenes, Hor. Od. 3, 1, 22 deep s., s. altus, id. S. 2, 1, 8; artus, Cic. Rep. 6, 10 a very sound s., verissimus s., Plin. Ep. 6, 16: light s., s. leves, Hor. Epod. 2, 28; tenues, Stat. Th. 1, 389: heavy s., s. gravis, Sen. H. F. 1056: the first s., primus s., Virg. Aen. 1, 470: s. easy to obtain, s. facilis, Hor. Od. 2, 11, 8: (opp. to difficilis, Sen. Tranq. 2, 6): the s. of sorrow, tristis s., Cat. 64, 122: the s. of frenzy, furiales s., Plin. 14, 22, 28 § 142: the s. of oblivion, s. lethaeus, Virg. G. 1, 78: eternal s. (i. e. death), s. sempiternus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 117; perpetuus, Hor. Od. 1, 24, 5; longus, id. ib. 3, 11, 38: the "s. that knows no waking," s. ferreus, Virg. Aen. 10, 745: to procure s., consequi ut s. accedat, Cels. 3, 18 to induce s. by drugs, medicamentis s. arcessere, moliri, id. ib.: to produce s., s. facere, id.: Plin. 20, 5, 20; conciliare, id. 21, 20, 83; allicere, id. 9, 13, 15; concitare, id. 20, 17, 73; parĕre, id. 19, 8, 38; gignere, id. 21, 19, 77: to court s., s. sequi, Tib. 1, 1, 48: s. steals over any one, obrepit alicui s., Plin. Ep. 7, 4: to be hardly able to keep from s., s. vix tenere, Cic. Brut. 80, 278: to close the eyes in s., connivere somno, id. N. D. 2, 57, 143: to give way to s., somno indulgere, Tac. A. 16, 19: to be overpowered by s., somno opprimi, Caes. B. C. 2, 38; premi, Plin. 10, 77, 98; complecti, Cic. Rep. 6, 10; urgeri, Cic. Att. 12, 9: sunk in s., somno torpidi, Liv. 7, 36; mersi, id. 41, 3, extr.; soluti, Virg. Aen. 9, 189: in, during s., in somnis, Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 82; per somnum, id. Div. 2, 11, 27; per somnos, Plin. 23, 1, 24, extr.; somno, Liv. 8, 6: not to have a wink of s., s. non videre oculis, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 82: Cic.: v. sleepless: to have had enough s., somno satiatum esse, Liv. 2, 65: to drive away, prevent s., s. prohibere, Cels. 5, 25, 5; impedire, id. 3, 8; fugare, Tib. 1, 1, 4; adimere (opp. to dare), Virg. Aen. 4, 244; divellere, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 18; eripere, Juv. 3, 238: to rouse from s., e somno excitare, Cic. Rep. 6, 12; suscitare, id. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: s. from which a man cannot be roused, s. inexcitabilis, Sen. Ep. 83, 15: to interrupt one's s., s. interrumpere, Plin. 28, 4, 14: to startle from s., somnum r., Virg. Aen. 7, 458; somnos abrumpere, id. G. 3, 530: to start from s., corripere e somno corpus, id. Aen. 4, 572: s. departs, s. abit, Ov. F. 3, 23: to bring back s., reducere s., Hor. Od. 3, 1, 21: as a deity, Somnus, Ov. M. 11, 592 (cf. Stat. Th. 10, 84-117; S., 5, 4).
      2. 2. sŏpor (prop. a heavy s.; but also = somnus, esp. in poet.): a heavy s. annihilates even dreams, gravis s. etiam somnia exstinguit, Sen. Ep. 53, 7: heavy s., piger s., Cat. 63, 37 s. closes my eyes, occupat lumina s., Tib. 1, 2, 2: to enjoy quiet s., placidum s. carpere, Virg. Aen. 4, 522: to rest one's weary limbs in s., sopore placare artus languidos, Att. in Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: (cf. somnus devinxit membra suavi sopore, Lucr. 4, 452): of the s.-god, Prop. 1, 3, 45: also used, like preced., of the s. of death: altus aeternusque sopor, Lucr. 3, 466.
      3. 3. quies, ētis, f. (rest): s. by night, nocturna q., Sen. Ira, 3, 36, 1: soothing s., blanda quies, Ov. F. 3, 19: deep s., q. alta, Virg. Aen. 6, 522: the time of deep s., sopitae quietis tempus, Liv. 9, 37: rigid s. (of death), dura q., Virg. Aen. 10, 745: in s., secundum quietem, Cic. Div. 2, 66, 135: per quietem, Suet. Caes. 81.
      4. 4. nox, ctis, f. (night: hence, poet., s.): to sink to s., pectore noctem accipere, Virg. Aen. 4, 530 the s. of oblivion, Lethaea nox, Ov. A. A. 3, 648. Phr virtue, lulled to s., sopita virtus, Cic. Cael. 17, 41: to talk in one's s., per somnia loqui, Lucr. 5, 1156.