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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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• spoil (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To plunder, strip by violence:
      1. 1. spŏlio, 1: usu. with acc. and abl. or acc. alone: to s. temples, houses, cities, fana, domos, urbes s., Caes.: Cic.: v. to plunder. Strengthened, exspŏlio, 1: Cic.: Sall.
      2. 2. praedor, 1: v. to plunder.
    2. II. To mar, injure, destroy:
      1. 1. corrumpo, rūpi, ruptum, 3 (to break up and make an end of: most gen. term): to s. the springs (by choking them up, etc.), aquarum fontes c., Sall. Jug. 55: to s. fine opportunities, magnas opportunitates c., Sall. Cat. 43: Caes.: esp. as pass. refl., v. infr. (B.).
      2. 2. perdo, 3. v. to destroy, ruin.
      3. 3. vĭtio, 1 (to make faulty, cause a flaw in): to s. a tool in work, ferramentum in opere v., Col. 11, 1, med.: (the stream) is s.'d by briny salts, salibus vitiatur amaris, Ov. M. 15, 286.
      4. 4. dēprāvo, 1 (to worsen, deteriorate: but not with ref. to material things): v. to pervert. See also infr. (III.).
    3. III. With ref. to character, to corrupt by indulgence:
      1. 1. dēprāvo, 1: Cic. Att. 10, 4 (puerum indulgentia d.): Caes.
      2. 2. corrumpo, 3: Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 17: v. to corrupt.
      3. 3. perdo, 3: Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 36. more fully, mores liberorum perdere, Quint. 1, 2, 6. If nothing more than the act of over indulgence be meant, use nimium indulgere, cf. Ter. l. c.: nimis molliter educare: molliore educationis ratione uti, cf. Quint. 1, 2, 6. (Indulgere does not of itself imply excess.)
  2. B. Intrans.: corrumpor, 3: I must take care these (fish) don't s., hi mihi ne corrumpantur cautio est, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 67: so, prandium c., ib. 4, 2, 49.