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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.
stain (v.) Copy link
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• stain (v.):
    1. I. To discolour, to spot:
      1. 1. foedo, 1: v. to soil, befoul.
      2. 2. dēcŏlōro, 1 (rare): what sea has not the blood of Italy s.'d? quod mare Dauniae non decoloravere caedes? Hor. Od. 2, 1, 35: cf. Auct. Her. 2, 5, 8: v. to discolour.
      3. 3. măcŭlo, 1 (to fleck, spot): the drops s. the ground with gore, guttae terram tabo maculant, Virg. Aen. 3, 28: cf. Val. Fl. 4, 368, telas maculare ostro: s.'d, marked with spots, maculosus, Plin. 36, 6, 13: Suet.
    2. II. To dye, to colour:
      1. 1. cŏlōro, 1: to s. wood with red earth, lignum c. sinopide, Plin. 35, 6, 13.
      2. 2. tingo (tinguo), nxi, inctum, 3: v. to dye.
      3. 3. infĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3: all the Britons s. themselves with woad, omnes se Britanni vitro inf., Caes. B. G. 5, 14: Plin.
      4. 4. incŏquo, xi, ctum, 3 (to bake in; fix colour by heat; also in gen. sense: poet.): fleeces s.'d with Tyrian red, vellera Tyrios incocta rubores, Virg. G. 3, 307.
      5. 5. fūco, 1: fleeces s.'d with glass-green dye, vellera hyali saturo fucata colore, Virg. G. 4, 335: v. to dye.
    3. III. Fig.: to spot with guilt, to pollute, disgrace:
      1. 1. foedo, 1: s.'d with foul crime, turpi crimine foedatus, Lucr. 3, 49: a victory s.'d by cupidity, foedata per avaritiam victoria, Tac. A. 4, 19.
      2. 2. măcŭlo, 1: to pollute their offspring by parricide, m. partus suos parricidio, Liv. 1, 13: he s.'d his glory by a shameful death, gloriam turpi morte maculavit, Nep. Paus. 5: Virg. Aen. 10, 851.
      3. 3. polluo, 3: v. to pollute.
      4. 4. contāmĭno, 1: to s. the name of the Roman people by crime, scelere nomen P. R. c., Auct. Harusp. 16.
      5. 5. expr. by ignominia notare, afficere: v. to disgrace. Phr.: to s. oneself with the guilt of parricide, obstringere se parricidio, Cic. Phil. 11, 12, 29: s.'d, disgraced, maculosus (maculosi senatores, Cic. Att. 1, 16): to be s.'d (receive a stain), suscipere maculam, Cic. Leg. Man. 3, 7: v. pollute, disgrace.