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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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• stake (subs.):
    1. I. A piece of wood driven into the ground:
      1. 1. pālus: to tie a vine to a s., palo adjungere vitem, Tib. 1, 8, 33.
      2. 2. stīpes, ĭtis, m.: he fixes s.s sharpened at the point, s. praeacutos defigit, Caes. B. C. 1, 27: to drive a s. through a man, adigere s. per medium hominem, Sen. Ep. 14.
      3. 3. sŭdes, is, f.: he fixes s.s in the trenches, in fossis s. defigit, Caes. B. C. 1, 27.
    2. II. Stake to which criminals are tied for burning or other punishment: pālus: bound to the s., ad palum alligatus, Cic. Verr. 5, 5, 11: or, stīpes, ĭtis, m.: cf. Plin. 8, 5, 15, viri stipitibus alligati: to die at the s., igni cremari, Caes. B. G. 1, 4: to burn at the s., igni interficere, id. 6, 19: necare, id. 1, 53: to condemn a man to the s., *aliquem flammis damnare.
    3. III. Something pledged or wagered: pignus, ŏris, n.: to have a contest with a man for a s., pignore certare cum aliquo, Virg. E. 3, 31: posito pignore, Ov. A. A. 1, 168. Phr.: your interests are at s., res tua agitur, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84: liberty, safety, property, character, is at s., libertas, salus, bona, existimatio, agitur: cf. Cic. Verr. 4, 51: Manil. 2, 6: Liv. 28, 19: to be at s., in discrimen venire, Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 16: and Liv. 29, 17, in discrimine esse.