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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 (subs.):
    1. I. A person under dominion:
      1. 1. prīvātus: Plin. Pan. 10: he seemed greater than a s. while in a s.'s rank, major privato visus dum p. fuit, Tac. H. 1, 49. As fem. privāta (mulier), Hor. Od. 1, 37, extr.
      2. 2. subjectus: valour and high spirit in s.s are offensive to rulers, virtus ac ferocia subjectorum ingrata imperantibus, Tac. Agr. 31.
      3. 3. cīvis: as a king to his s.s, ut rex civibus suis, Cic. ap. Augustin.: a good s., civis bonus, Cic.: an excellent and most loyal s., civis optimus atque fidelissimus, Cic. Phil. 4, 2, 6.
      4. 4. pārentes (pl.): Sall. J. 102: what with disloyal s.s and unjust rulers, inter male parentes et injuste imperantes, Tac. Agr. 32. Or expr. by adj. or verb: e. g., wishes to have foreign nations loyal allies rather than wretched s.s, malit exteras gentes fide et societate junctas habere quam tristi subjectas servitio, Liv. 26, 49.
    2. II. A matter or theme:
      1. 1. rēs, rĕi (rēi, Lucr.), f.: an important s., r. magna, Cic. Rull. 2, 41: a s. of dispute, r. controversa, id. Leg. 1, 20, 52: or, id de quo agitur, disseritur, cf. id. Acad. 4, 6, 18: the s. of our enquiry, id quod quaerimus, id. Off. 1, 4, 14: if the speaker be not master of his s., si res non subest (orationi) ab oratore percepta et cognita, id. de Or. 1, 12, 50: v. discussion, argument, enquiry. For s.-matter, v. adj., II. Phr.: they have led me from the s., abstulerunt me velut de spatio, Liv. 35, 40.
      2. 2. argūmentum: the s. of a letter, a. epistolae, Cic. Att. 10, 13: the s. (or plot) of a play, poem, etc., fabulae, carminis a., Plaut.: Ter.: Liv. 7, 2: the s. (of a work of art), a., Cic.: Ov.: Virg.: s. of a picture by Parrhasius, Parrhasii tabulae a., Suet. Tib. 44.
      3. 3. lŏcus (pl. loci in this sense), (strictly a point or division of a subject): an extensive s., l. longe lateque patens, Cic. Or. 21, 72: the s. has been clearly stated, l. perpurgatus est, Cic. de Div. 2, 1, 2.
      4. 4. quaestio: the nature of the gods is a very hard and obscure s., perdifficilis et perobscura est q. de natura deorum, Cic. N. D. 1, 1, 1. Phr.: to change the s., sermonem alio transferre, Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 133.
      5. 5. mātĕria (of a book): Plin. Ep. 1, 2.
    3. III. (Logic and grammat.): that of which any thing is predicated:
      1. 1. subjectum, Mart. Cap.
      2. 2. pars subjectiva, Appul.
    4. IV. Medic. t. t.; perh. *corpus or *corpus mortui incidendum, consecandum.
    5. V. A bad fellow: a bad subject (Fr. mauvais sujet), homo perditus, nebulo: Cic.: Hor.