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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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• solicit:
    1. I. To ask:
      1. 1. ambio, īvi and ĭi, ītum, 4 (with acc. of the person only, in the best writers: rarely with acc. of the thing, which is gen. expr. by a clause with ut or ne, very rarely by inf.): thee, Fortune, the poor husbandman s.s with anxious prayer, te (Fortunam) pauper ambit sollicita prece ruris colonus (where Fortuna is personified), Hor. Od. 1, 35, 5: cf. reginam ambire affatu, Virg. Aen. 4, 284: to s. a prize for the actors, palmam histrionibus ambire, Plaut. Amph. prol. 69: s.ing exemption from the laws, ambiens ut legibus solveretur, Suet. Caes. 18: cf. ambirent multi ne filias in sortem darent, id. Aug. 31, med. Hence techn. used of s.ing votes (v. to canvass). Phr.: to s. an office, petitioni se dare, Cic. Fam. 13, 10, 2: a s.ing the consulship, petitio consulatus, Caes. B. C. 1, 22: so, ambitio, prensatio (but v. canvass).
      2. 2. pĕto, 3: rŏgo, 1 (less precisely): v. to beg, ask.
      3. 3. mendīco (to solicit alms): v. to beg (II.).
    2. II. To request strongly, entreat: contendo (often joined with peto), insto, dēprĕcor (v. to beg): ōro, obsecro, flāgĭto (v. to implore, importune, entreat, urge).
    3. III. To court, try to obtain:
      1. 1. pĕto, īvi and ĭi, ītum, 3: Sempronia was so inflamed by lust that she oftener s.'d men than was s.'d, libidine sic accensa Sempronia ut viros saepius peteret quam peteretur, Sall. C. 25: cf. Cat. 59 (61), 145.
      2. 2. capto, 1 (to court applause, popularity): to s. applause, c. plausus, Cic.: so, aucupor, affecto: v. to court (5. Phr.), covet.
    4. IV. To invite: sollĭcĭto, 1: usu. of urging to crime: to s. to administer poison, ad venenum dandum s., Cic. Clu. 16, med.: see also to invite (II.), tempt, allure: and for bad sense, v. to seduce, tempt.
    5. V. To disquiet (a sense now obsol., used by Dryden, Milton): sollicito, vexo: v. to harass.