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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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• tread (v.):
    1. I. Intrans.: to plant the feet upon the ground:
      1. 1. insisto, stĭti, stĭtum, 3: to t. firmly, firmiter i., Caes. B. G. 4, 26: firme ins., Suet. Cal. 26: with dat.: to t. upon (the bodies of) the fallen, jacentibus i., Caes. B. G. 2, 27: Liv.
      2. 2. ingrĕdior, ssus, 3: to t. upon the ground, solo i., Virg. Aen. 4, 177: v. to walk. Fig.: to t. in any one's steps, vestigiis alicujus i., Cic. Rep. 6, 24: Liv. (with acc.).
      3. 3. incēdo, ssi, ssum, 3: to t. on concealed fires, inc. per ignes suppositos cineri doloso, Hor. Od. 2, 1, 7: v. to walk. Phr.: to t. effeminately, tenero et molli ingressu suspendere gradum, Sen. N. Q. 7, 32: cf. Cic. Off. 1, 36, 131, tarditatibus uti in ingressu mollioribus: to t. lightly (on tiptoe), suspenso gradu ire, Ter. Ph. 5, 6, 27: cf. Phaedr. 2, 4, 18, evagata (feles) suspenso pede.
    2. II. Trans.: to t. upon, to press by t.ing, trample upon:
      1. 1. calco, 1: to t. on heaps of the dying, acervos morientum c., Ov. M. 5, 88: to be trodden upon by any one, pede ac vestigio alicujus calcari, Tac. H. 4, 81: to t. the path of death, viam leti c., Hor. Od. 1, 28, 16: to t. grapes, uvam c., Cato.
      2. 2. prĕmo, ssi, ssum, 3 (with pede, pedibus, etc.): the grape trodden by bare feet, nudo pressa uva pede, Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 20: we t. on the untouched moss, intacto premimus vestigia musco, Nemes., and without pes or vestigium directly expr.: cf. Virg. Aen. 2, 379, qui anguem pressit humi nitens (has trodden on a serpent).
      3. 3. occulco, 1 (comp. of calco, to t. down: infreq.): to t. down thoroughly, bene o., Cato R. R. 49: Liv. 27, 14 (of elephants crushing men in battle). Phr.: to t. clay and soften it, *cretam (terram cretaceam) calcando subigere: cf. to knead.
    3. III. Of the male bird: calco, 1 (very rare use): Col. 8, 5, fin.: usu. better, ĭneo, 4, irr.: ib. c. 2, fin. (the sense of calco in former passage is not quite certain).