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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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• subject (adj.):
    1. I. Brought under:
      1. 1. subjectus: s. to you, s. tibi, Plin. Pan. 24: s. to and dependent on you, s. atque obnoxii vobis, Liv. 7, 30, ad init.: to spare the s., parcere subjectis, Virg. Aen. 6, 854.
      2. 2. dicto audiens: Liv. 5, 3, ad fin.: v. obedient.
      3. 3. subdĭtus (rare): s. to Pluto's sway, Plutonis s. regno, Tib. 4, 1, 67. Or expr. by the verb, v. to subject. Phr.: to become completely s. to the king, sub jus judiciumque regis venire, Liv. 39, 24, med.
    2. II. Exposed or liable:
      1. 1. obnoxius: s. to disease, o. morbo, Plin. 17, 24: s. to insults, o. contumeliis, Suet. Tib. 63.
      2. 2. subjectus: daily and hourly more s. to envy, subjectior in diem et horam invidiae, Hor. Sat. 2, 6, 47: s. to (of a particular disease), is sometimes expr. by the termination -ōsus: e. g. s. to the gripes tormĭnōsus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 27. Phr.: human affairs are s. to chance, habet mortalia casus, Lucan 2, 13: to be s. to the will of another, alieni arbitrii esse, Suet. Claud. 2: to be s. to punishment, poenâ teneri, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 5: your mistress will be s. to your cognizance, notitiae suberit amica tuae, Ov. A. A. 1, 398: the s.-matter of the discussion, materia ad argumentum subjecta, Cic. Part. 11, 38: the s.-matter of philosophy, subjecta quasi materia sapientiae, Cic. de Fin. 3, 19. [N.B.--The quasi is important.] The s.-matter of a speech, materia orationis, Cic. de Or. 2, 34, 145: to furnish s.-matter for discussion, materiam sermonibus praebere, Tac. H. 4, 4: v. matter.