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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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• swallow (v.):
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. glūtio, īvi or ii, ītum, 4: Juv. 4, 29.
      2. 2. haurio, hausi, haustum, 4: to s. whole, cibos integros h., Col. 8, 17, 11.
      3. 3. sorbeo, ui, 2: to s. a raw egg, crudum ovum s., Plin. 29, 3, 11, § 42.
      4. 4. dēvŏro, 1: ib.: what is s.'d, id quod devoratur, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 135.
      5. 5. absorbeo, ui, 2 (to s. greedily): to s. up the cakes, a. placentas, Hor. S. 2, 8, 24.
      6. 6. vŏro, 1: some animals s. down, others masticate their food, (animalium) alia vorant alia mandunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122.
    2. II. Fig.: to s. up, devour:
      1. 1. absorbeo, 2: the Ocean seems scarcely able to have s.'d up so much wealth, Oceanus vix videtur tot res abs. potuisse, Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 67.
      2. 2. devŏro, 1: let Charybdis s. me up, me Charybdis d., Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 74: the voice is s.'d up and lost, vox devoratur, Plin. 11, 51, 112, § 270.
      3. 3. sorbeo, ui, 2: Virg. Aen. 3, 421.
      4. 4. haurio, 4: you have s.'d up all your patrimony by your extravagance, hausisti patrias luxuriosus opes, Mart. 9, 83, 4: v. ENGULPH, exhaust.
    3. III. To put up with: sorbeo: exsorbeo: devŏro: cf. Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 9: id. Brut. 67, 236: v. bear, endure.