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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 (v.):
      1. 1. dormio, 4 (the most gen. t. used in poet. as pass. impers.): to s. more heavily from fatigue, Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14; to s. lightly, leviter d., Sen. Ep. 53, 7 to s. little, exiguum d., Plin. 10, 77, 97: to s. very little, minimum d., Sen. Ep. 83, 6 to s. until past day-light, d. in lucem, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 34: to s. on till midday, in medium diem d., after id. ib. 1, 2, 30: to s. at midday, meridie d., Plin. Ep. 7, 4: he is dismissed to s., dormitum dimittitur, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 73: we must s. one eternal s., nox est perpetua una dormienda, Catul. 5, 6 he s.s whilst he is awake, vigilans dormit, Pl. Ps. 1, 3, 152 (167) (prov.): hence, Fig.: you are s.ing, and do not seem yet to understand these things, vos dormitis nec haec adhuc intelligere videmini, Cael. in Cic. Fam. 8, 17, 2: to s. easily on either ear, d. otiose in utramvis aurem, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 101: so, in dextram aurem, Plin. Ep. 4, 29 (prov., of those who are indifferent): v. sluggish, dull, negligent.
      2. 2. dormīto, 1 (freq. of preced.: to fall asleep, s. habitually): to begin to s. soundly and heavily, arte et graviter d. coepisse, Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59. Fig.: sometimes good Homer s.s, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, Hor. A. P. 359 (quoted by Quint. 10, 1, 24).
      3. 3. quiesco, ēvi, ētum, 3 (to rest): the praetor was s.ing, praetor quiescebat, Cic. Verr. 4, 14, 32: he slept well, bene quievit, Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 3: he did not s. more than three hours at night, non plus quam tribus nocturnis horis quievit, Suet. Cal. 50.
      4. 4. conquiesco, ēvi, ētum, 3 (less freq. than preced.): to s. at midday, meridie c., Caes. B. G. 7, 46: Suet. Phr.: to be always ready to s., somni esse paratissimi, Plin. Ep. 3, 5: to s. very little, brevissimo uti somno, Sen. Ep. 83, 6: v. sleeper: he could not s. at all, nullo horae momento contigit somnus, Plin. 7, 51, 52: to s. on till past day-light, somnum in diem extrahere, Tac. Germ. 22: all living creatures slept, somnus habebat animalia, Virg. Aen. 3, 147: to s., somnum, quietem capere, Cic. Att. 8, 1, extr.; Caes. B. G. 6, 28; somnos ducere, carpere, Virg. Aen. 4, 555, 560: quietem trahere, Prop. 1, 14, 9: v. also GO TO SLEEP, FALL ASLEEP: to be fast asleep, condormire, Suet. Aug. 78: to have guards to keep watch while he slept, dispositos supra somnum habere, Curt. 6, 11, 3.