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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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• take up:
    1. I. To lift up:
      1. 1. sūmo, mpsi, mptum, 3: I t. up your letters again and again into my hands, epistolas identidem in manus sumo, Plin. Ep. 6, 7: to t. up the pruning-hook, s. falcem (opp. to ponere), Juv. 13, 39: to t. up arms, s. arma, Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 86. Fig.: every war is easy to t. up, omne bellum facile sumi, Sall. Jug. 83 (opp. to deponere): v. undertake, commence.
      2. 2. suscĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3: her maidens t. her up, suscipiunt famulae, Virg. Aen. 4, 391: to t. up a child (i. e. to adopt him at his birth), s. puerum, Ter. Andr. 2, 3, 27. Fig.: to t. up the cause of the senate, s. causam senatus, Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 51; to t. up the burden of duty, s. onus officii, id. Rosc. Am. 38, 112: v. take upon oneself.
      3. 3. tollo, sustŭli, sublātum, 3: to t. up a man who is lying, jacentem t., Pl. Ps. 5, 1, 2: he wished to be t.n up into the chariot of his father, optavit ut in currum patris tolleretur, Cic. Off. 3, 25, 94: v. lift up.
      4. 4. corrĭpio, rĭpui, reptum, 3 (to snatch up: mostly poet.): to t. up a bow, arcum manu c., Virg. Aen. 1, 188. Phr.: to be t.n up to heaven, sublimem abire, Liv. 1, 16: to t. up on one's shoulders, sublevare humeris, Plin. 11, 17, 17.
    2. II. To continue: suscĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3: Anchises t.s up the tale, suscipit Anchises, Virg. Aen. 6, 723: v. continue.
    3. III. To reply sharply:
      1. 1. corrĭpio, rĭpui, reptum, 3: not to t. up but to admonish, non c. sed monere, Quint. 11, 1, 68: Caes. B. C. 1, 2.
      2. 2. objurgo, 1: he took him up as a parent would t. no one up, objurgavit, sicut neminem parens, Cic. Coel. 11, 25: now let me t. you up, nunc te objurgari patere, id. Att. 4, 16, ad fin.: v. to chide.
    4. IV. To occupy, fill: occŭpo, 1: as much space as a line-of-battle would t. up, quantum loci acies instructa o. poterat, Caes. B. G. 2, 8: t.n up with their own affairs, in re sua occupati, Catul. 15, 8: v. occupy. Phr.: the contemplation of wisdom commonly t.s up much of my time, mihi multum auferre temporis solet contemplatio sapientiae, Sen. Ep. 64, 6: to t. up a day, diem consumere, Juv. 1, 4: a journey which used to t. up a whole day, via quae solidum diem terebat, Stat. Silv. 4, 3, 36.
    5. V. To bind up a vein (med. t. t.): dēlĭgo, 1: the larger veins are to be t.n up, majores (venae) deligandae sunt, Cels. 7, 19, ad init.
    6. VI. To arrest: comprĕhendo, di, sum, 3: v. arrest.