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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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• suit (v.):
  1. A. Trans.: To adapt:
      1. 1. accommŏdo, 1: v. to fit, accommodate.
      2. 2. compōno, 3: v. to adapt, to arrange, regulate. Phr.: to s. the action to the word, may be expr. by dictum ac factum s. dictum factum (no sooner said than done: v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. dico, I., 4.).
  2. B. Intrans.:
    1. I. To be adapted to:
      1. 1. convĕnio, vēni, ventum, 4: liquid food s.s the fatigued, cibus humidus fatigatis convenit, Cels.: which vices seem to s. any one you please rather than him you mention, quae vitia in quemvis videntur potius quam in istum c., Cic. Verr. 1, 49, 128 the name does not s., nomen non c., Ter. Andr. 5, 4, 39.
      2. 2. congruo, ui, 3: one kind of speech does not s. every case, non omni causae c. orationis unum genus, Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 210.
      3. 3. consentio, sensi, sensum, 4: v. to agree (IV.), to harmonize.
      4. 4. haereo, haesi, haesum, 2 (rare in this sense): and let not the chorus sing anything between the acts which does not lead on to the plot and s. well, neu quid medios (chorus) intercinat actus quod non proposito conducat et haereat apte, Hor. A. P. 195. Cf. comp., cohaereo (v. to fit together, correspond).
      5. 5. respondeo, di, sum, 2: v. to correspond, to answer (II.).
      6. 6. cădo, cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 3 (with in and acc.): that suspicion of yours s.s not (or is not suitable to) this man, non in hunc hominem c. ista suspicio, Cic. Sull. 27, 75.
      7. 7. quadro, 1 (to square or agree with): to s. in many respects, ad multa q., id. Att. 4, 18, 3. Or expr. by sum and adj. (v. fit, suitable): when it shall s. (or be convenient for) you, quum erit tuum commodum, ib. 12, 28, 3 (expr. by commodo tuo, id. Fam. 4, 2, 4). Phr.: the man s.s you perfectly, magis ex usu tuo nemo est, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 47: the other arts s. not every age, ceterae artes non aetatum omnium sunt, Cic. (Quich.).
    2. II. To become, q. v.: dĕcet, convĕnit. Or expr. by sum with adj. (v. becoming, suitable).
    3. III. To please, q. v.: Phr.: they do not s. you, non tui stomachi (sunt), Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2 (v. also liking, Phr.): the same things do not s. everybody, non omnes eadem mirantur amantque, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 58.