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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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• sustain:
    1. I. To bear, uphold:
      1. 1. sustĭneo, tĭnui, tentum, 2: the air s.s the flight of birds, aër s. volatus alitum, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101.
      2. 2. sustento, 1: Alcanor s.s his falling brother, Al. fratrem ruentem s., Virg. Aen. 10, 339.
      3. 3. sublĕvo, 1: bees s. their wearied king on their shoulders, apes fessum regem humeris s., Plin. 11, 17, 17, § 54: v. support, prop up. Phr.: temples s.'d by vast columns, templa vastis innixa columnis, Ov. Pont. 3, 2, 49.
    2. II. To support, maintain:
      1. 1. sustĭneo, 2: we are nourished and s.'d by corn, alimur et s. re frumentaria, Cic. Verr. 3, 5, 11.
      2. 2. sustento, 1: Liv. 2, 34: Cic.: Tac.
      3. 3. tŏlĕro, 1 (with the notion of doing so barely): to just s. life by agriculture, t. vitam exercendo agros, Tac. A. 11, 7.
      4. 4. ălo, ălui, ălĭtum, 3: v. maintain, nourish.
    3. III. To bear, bear up against:
      1. 1. sustĭneo, 2: to s. labours, labores s., Cic. Rep. 1, 3.
      2. 2. fero, tŭli, lātum, 3. Join: ferre et sustinere, id. Tusc. 5, 6, 16.
      3. 3. sustento, 1: to s. the extremity of famine, extremam famem s., Caes. B. G. 7, 17: the defence was with difficulty s.'d, aegre sustentatum est, ib. 2, 6. Phr.: we have s.'d a severe defeat, pugna magna victi sumus, Liv. 22, 7: to s. a loss, facere damnum, Pl. Capt. 2, 2, 77: ferre damna, Ov. Her. 15, 64: jacturam facere, Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 79 jacturam pati, Col. praef. 1, 1: v. supper.
    4. IV. To sustain a character or part: to s. the principal character (in a play), primas partes agere, Ter. Ph. prol. 27: discere partes (of an actor), id. Heaut. prol. 10. Fig.: to s. the part of friend, amicum agere, Tac. H. 1, 30: to s. the part of an emperor, principem gerere, Plin. Pan. 44.