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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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• sow (v.):
      1. 1. sĕro, sēvi, sătum, 3: to s. grain, frumenta s., Caes. B. G. 5, 14: one must s. vetch, serendum viciam, Varr. R. R. 1, 32, 2. Also, of the ground s.n: that field of yours is to be s.n, iste serendus ager, Ov. A. A. 2, 668: to s. furrows, s. sulcos, Tib. 2, 3, 73. Fig.: to s. civil broils, civiles discordias s., Liv. 3, 40, post med.: cf. causam discordiarum s., Suet. Cal. 26, ad fin.
      2. 2. sēmĭno, 1 (rare in this sense): to s. spelt, wheat, barley, adoreum, triticum s., Col. 2, 8, extr. Also of the ground s.n: to s. a field, agrum s., id. 2, 4, extr.
      3. 3. consĕro, sēvi, sĭtum, 3: to s. arable lands with corn, (sola) frumento c., Curt. 7, 4, post med.: a field carefully s.n, ager diligenter consitus, Cic. Sen. 17, 59.
      4. 4. dissĕro, no perf., sĭtum, 3: the Caecilian lettuce is s.n properly in January, (lactuca) Caeciliana mense Januario recte disseritur, Col. 11, 3, 26. Fig.: a portion of the vital principle s.n throughout the whole body, dissita pars animae per totum corpus, Lucr. 3, 144.
      5. 5. insĕro, sēvi, sĭtum, 3 (rare in this sense): if the corn is not s.n, si frumentum non inseritur, Col. 5, 7, 3.
      6. 6. obsĕro, sēvi, sĭtum, 3: to s. corn, o. frumentum, Pl. Trin. 2, 4, 129: to s. (cover by sowing) the earth, terram frugibus o., Cic. Leg. 2, 25, 63.
      7. 7. obruo, ui, ŭtum, 3: to s. millet, milium o., Col. 11, 2, 72: to s. beet, betam o., id. 11, 3, 42.
      8. 8. expr. by semen, with such verbs as jăcio, spargo, dēpōno, mando: to s. lettuce-seed, (lactucae) s. jacere, Plin. 19, 8, 39, § 130: to s. seed, semen spargere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 18, 50: to s. teeth, seed of men, dentes, mortalia semina, spargere, Ov. M. 3, 105 (expr. by dentes terrae supponere, id. M. 3, 102): (Fig.: to s. enmities for a long time, odia in longum jacere, Tac. A. 1, 69: for fig. sense, v. to circulate, disseminate): to s. seeds either in a ditch or furrow, deponere semina vel scrobe vel sulco, Col. 5, 4, 2: to s. seed in the ground, mandare semen terrae, Col. 1, 7, fin.: to s. barley in furrows, m. hordea sulcis, Virg. E. 5, 36: cf. semina sulcis committere, id. G. 1, 223.
      9. 9. expr. by sēmentis with facio: s., sementim facito, Cato R. R. 27: Liv. 23, 48, init. Also in plur.: to s. as extensively as possible, sementes quam maximas facere, Caes. B. G. 1, 3, init. Prov.: as you s., so will you reap, ut sementem feceris, ita metes, Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261. Phr.: night was preparing to s. the heaven with stars, nox coelo diffundere signa parabat, Hor. S. 1, 5, 10 (v. to stud): a little more than a peck is sufficient to s. an acre, jugerum paulo plus quam modius occupat, Col. 2, 10, med. Prov.: to reap where one has not s.n, ex aliorum laboribus libare laudem, Auct. Her. 4, 3, 5: cf. sub arbore, quam alius conseruit legere fructum (based on Liv. 10, 24, quam arborem consevisset, sub ea legere alium fructum indignum esse dicere).