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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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• trouble (subs.):
    1. I. Labour, pains; with an accessory notion of vexation or annoyance:
      1. 1. mŏlestia (in which the notion of annoyance predominates): to give any one t. (or annoyance), alicui m. exhibere, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 1; afferre, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 9: as far as can be done without t. on your part, quod sine m. tua fiat, Cic. Fam. 13, 23: v. annoyance.
      2. 2. nĕgōtium (in which the idea of having something to do, or difficulty, predominates): (to be able to do anything) without t., nullo n., Cic. Att. 10, 16: to give any one t., alicui n. facessere, id. Fam. 3, 10, init.; I have a good deal of t. in managing the boy, (puero) regendo habeo negotii satis, id. Att. 6, 2, 1.
      3. 3. ŏpĕra (in which the idea of exertion, pains, effort predominates): to take a good deal of t. about anything, multum operae in aliqua re ponere, Cic. Att. 12, 20: so, tantum studium tamque multam operam ponere in aliqua re, id. Fin. 1, init.: it is worth the t., pretium operae est, id. Agr. 2, 27, 73: so, pretium operae facere, to get a (sufficient) reward for one's t., Liv. pref. init. Join: multum operae laborisque [consumere in aliqua re], id. de Or. 1, 55, init.: v. pains.
      4. 4. lăbor: v. labour, effort. Phr.: to take a great deal of t. with anything, elaborare in aliqua re (v. pains): with much t. (or difficulty), aegre, vix: v. difficulty (I., fin.): if it is not too much t., nisi molestum est, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 20. See also to exert (II.), exertion.
    2. II. Reverse, calamity, distress:
      1. 1. incommŏdum (disadvantage, blow, disaster): let us grieve over our own t. and loss [by the death of a friend], nostro i. detrimentoque doleamus, Cic. Br. 1, 4: so many t.s in life, tot i. in vita, id. N. D. 1, 9, fin.
      2. 2. lăbor (esp. in pl.): in my (time of) t., in meo l., Cic. Fam. 15, 8: the last t.s of Troy, Trojae supremus l., Virg. Aen. 2, 11: having gone through many varied t.s, perfunctus multis variisque l., Nep. Han. 13.
      3. 3. aerumna (toil and distress combined)): death a release from the t.s of life, mors aerumnarum requies, Sall. Cat. 51: cf. Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 118, labores [Herculis] ... tristissimo verbo aerumnas nominaverunt.
      4. 4. dŏlor: v. grief.
      5. 5. res adversa, and esp. pl. res adversae: v. adversity.
      6. 6. mălum (gen. term for whatever is bad or calamitous): no stranger to t., non ignara mali, Virg. Aen. 1, 630: o'erwhelmed with t., pressa malo (navis), Hor. Od. 1, 14, 10. Phr.: to entertain confidence in t., afflictis confidere rebus, Virg. Aen. 1, 452: to be in t. (or difficulty), laborare: to be in t. from debt, ex aere alieno l., Caes. B. C. 3, 22.
    3. III. Commotion: in this sense usu. pl.: mōtus, tŭmultus, etc.: v. commotion. Sometimes tempora may serve; which is specially used of difficult or trying circumstances: during the present t.s, his reipublicae temporibus: cf. Cic. Fl. 3, 6.