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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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• strengthen:
    1. I. Trans.:
      1. 1. firmo, 1 (to give firmness and solidity to): to s. the body by food, corpus cibo f., Liv. 27, 13, extr.: Cic.: to s. and increase any one's resources, opes alicujus f. atque augere, Cic. Off. 2, 11, 40. As milit. term: to s. a place by fortifications, garrisons, locum munitionibus, praesidiis f., Caes.: Sall. Comp. confirmo, 1 (strengthened from simple verb): they think the sinews are s.'d thereby, nervos confirmari putant, Caes. B. G. 6, 21. (For fig. sense, v. to corroborate.)
      2. 2. rōbŏro, 1 (implying rather more than firmo: less freq., and in Cic. only fig.): to s. the limbs, artus r., Lucr. 4, 1038: Plin.: fit education s.s the heart, recti cultus pectora r., Hor. Od. 4, 4, 34: Cic. Strengthened, corrōbŏro, 1 (more freq. than simple verb): to s. soldiers by constant toil, milites assiduo labore c., Suet. Galb. 6: to s. the stomach, stomachum c., Plin. 20, 23, 99, § 263. Join: corroborare et confirmare [ingenia], Cic. Am. 20, 74.
      3. 3. stăbĭlio, 4 (to render stable or secure): to s. the laws, leges s., Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 62.
      4. 4. expr. by circuml.; to s. a conspiracy, *vires, (opes) conjurationis augere: to s. a state, *civitatem viribus opibusque augere; civitatem firmiorem tutioremque contra hostes reddere: v. to increase (I.).
    2. II. Intrans.: to become strong: only in fig. sense:
      1. 1. expr. by pass. of verbs under (I.): e. g. when the character s.s with (i. e. along with) years, corroboratis jam confirmatisque et ingeniis et aetatibus, Cic. Am. 20, 74.
      2. 2. or by inceptive verb: e. g. ingrăvesco, 3: the evil s.s daily, i. in dies malum, id. ad Brut. 1, 10, 1: cf. ingravescens morbus, id. Div. 2, 6, 16. Phr.: our affections s. by intercourse, voluntates nostrae consuetudine conglutinantur, cf. Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 2: failings which s. with our strength (lit. along with us), vitia quae nobiscum creverunt, Sen. (Quich.): Fame s.s by advancing, F. vires acquirit eundo, Virg. Aen. 4, 175: v. also to increase (II.), strong, to become or grow.