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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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• threaten:
    1. I. Trans.:
      1. 1. mĭnor, 1 (constr. with dat. of person and acc. of the thing: also with acc. and infin.): to t. any one with the cross, crucem alicui m., Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 102: they were t.ing that they would do this, hoc se facturos minabantur, Caes. B. C. 2, 13.
      2. 2. mĭnĭtor, 1 (freq. of preced. and constr. like it: in Pl. as an act. verb): to t. his brother with death, mortem fratri m., Cic. Phil. 6, 4, 10: to t. to do anything, m. facere aliquid, Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 13.
      3. 3. commĭnor, 1 (constr. like preced.): to t. battle rather than to fight, c. magis quam inferre pugnam, Liv. 10, 39.
      4. 4. intendo, di, tum or sum, 3 (to seek to bring upon: constr. with acc. after in, or dat.): to t. all with danger, i. periculum in omnes, Cic. Rosc. Am. 3, 7; so, minas intendere alicui, Tac. A. 3, 36.
      5. 5. intento, 1 (freq. of preced.): to t. any one with war, arma i. alicui, Liv. 6, 27: Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 76.
      6. 6. dēnuntio, 1 (to denounce, to announce something bad): to t. the people with slavery, d. populo servitutem, Cic. Phil. 5, 8, 21.
      7. 7. prōpōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3 (to set before): to t. with exile and death, exsilium, mortem p., Cic. Planc. 41, 97: id. Att. 2, 19, 1. Phr.: to t. anybody, minis insequi aliquem, Cic. Clu. 8, 24; minas jactare (alicui), id. Quint. 14, 47.
    2. II. Intrans.:
      1. 1. mĭnor, 1: the ash t.s (to fall), ornus minatur, Virg. Aen. 2, 626: Hor. A. P. 350. [N.B.--The lit. sense of the verb is to project: hence a t.ing rock is minans scopulus, Virg. Aen. 1, 162.]
      2. 2. impendeo, 2 (to impend): a great Parthian war is t.ing, magnum bellum impendet a Parthis, Cic. Att. 6, 2, ad med.: when wind is t.ing, vento impendente, Virg. G. 1, 365.
      3. 3. immĭneo (to t. by proximity): the greatest danger t.ing, summo discrimine imminente, Quint. 8, 4, 22: v. be imminent, impend.
      4. 4. insto, stĭti, 1 (stronger than preced.: cf. Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 11, "impendere jamdiu, aut instare jam plane, aut certe appropinquare"): to t. more savagely, truculentius i., Val. Max. 3, 8, 5. Phr.: the rest of the tower hung t.ing to fall, pars reliqua turris consequens procumbebat, Caes. B. C. 2, 11, ad fin.