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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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• snare (subs.):
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. lăquĕus, i, m. (a noose): to capture wild animals in s.s, captare feras laqueis, Virg. G. 1, 139: v. noose.
      2. 2. pĕdĭca, f. (a gin, springe): to place s.s (or springes) for cranes, gruibus p. ponere, Virg. G. 1, 307: Liv. 21, 36, fin.
      3. 3. plăga, f. (a hunting-net): to drive a wolf into the s.s, compellere in plagas lupum (v. l. Lycum), Pl. Poen. 3, 3, 35: to lay s.s, tendere, ponere p. Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68: to fall into a s., incidere (sc. in plagas), ib.: v. net (subs.). [For to entice into a s., v. to decoy.]
    2. II. Fig.:
      1. 1. lăquĕus, i, m.: to entangle one in s.s (or traps) of questions, interrogationum laqueis aliquem irretire, Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 43: cf. l. Stoicorum, id. Tusc. 5, 27, 76, and pass.: to lay s.s for a rival, rivali l. disponere, Ov. A. A. 2, 595: to fall into a s., cadere in l., ib. 3, 591: cf. in l. se induere, Pl. Cas. 1, 25: Cic.: to put one's neck into a s., collum in l. inserere, Cic. Verr. 4, 17, 37: to escape from a s., se expedire ex l., id. 2, 42, 102.
      2. 2. plăga: to contrive s.s (of the Stoics), p. texere, Cic. Acad. 2, 48, 147 (see also to snare, II.).
      3. 3. fŏvea: to deceive by a s., fovea decipere, Pl. Poen. 1, 1, 59.
      4. 4. casses, ium, m. (lit., hunting-nets: v. net): Tib. 1, 6, 5.
      5. 5. rēte, is, n. (v. net): r. amoris, Lucr. 4, 1141.
      6. 6. indāgo, ĭnis, f. (lit., an encircling with nets): to catch, so to speak, in a s., velut indagine capere, Tac. A. 13, 42, fin.
      7. 7. insĭdiae, arum, f.: to contrive s.s, i. parare, comparare, tendere, collocare, ponere, struere, Caes.: componere, Tac.: Prop.: Tib.: disponere, Quint.: (v. ambush, stratagem). Phr.: full of s.s, insidiosus, Cic.: Ov.: Plin.: to lay s.s against, insidiari (with dat.): v. ambush, to lie in, ambush: is it unjust that your enemies should fall into the s. they have laid for you? (injurium est) qua via te (adversarii) captent, eadem ipsos capi? Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 16 (see also supr. II., 1). [For to entice into a s., v. to allure, inveigle, seduce.]