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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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• understand:
    1. I. Comprehend, take in with mind:
      1. 1. intellĭgo, lexi, lectum, 3: I wish your plan to be developed, that I may u. it thoroughly, explicari consilium volo, ut penitus intelligam, Cic. Att. 8., 12: to u. great things from small, magna ex parvis intelligere, id. Off. 1, 41, 146.
      2. 2. comprehendo, di, sum, 3: to u. with mind, comprehendere animo, id. N. D. 3, 25, 64.
      3. 3. căpio, cēpi, captum, 3: to u. what a happy and immortal nature is, capere quae sit et beata natura et aeterna, ib. 1, 19, 49.
      4. 4. complector, plexus, 3: that you may u. the whole system, ut totum genus complectamini, id. Verr. 2, 12, 32.
      5. 5. amplector, 3: if the judge shall fail to u., si judex non amplectetur, Cic. Acad. 4, 8, 26.
      6. 6. perspicio, spexi, spectum, 3 (see thoroughly, make oneself master of a subject): I charge you to u. the whole, totum ... mando tibi ut perspicias, id. Att. 1, 12, 2: argument from things understood to what was not understood, ratio ex rebus perceptis ad id quod non percipiebatur, id. Acad. l. c.
      7. 7. tĕneo, ui, tentum, 2: Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 59: Cic. Fam. 6., 7.
      8. 8. scĭo, īvi, 4: that the Athenians understood what was right, scire quae recta essent, id. Sen. 18, 64: that all are able to speak on that which they u., omnes in eo quod scirent esse eloquentes, id. de Or. 1., 14, 63. In respect of a language or an art: to u. Latin, scire Latine, id. Brut. 37., 140: u.ing (skilful in using) the harp, citharae sciens, Hor. Od. 3, 9, 10.
      9. 9. nōvi, perf. of nosco: to know superficially: he u.s everything, omnia novit, Juv. 3, 77.
      10. 10. săpio, īvi, and ĭi, 3: to have taste or perception. Join: intelligere et sapere, Cic. Off. 2, 14, 48: when he first began to u., quum primum sapere coepit, id. Fam. 14, 1.
      11. 11. accipio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (to receive as true): things which I scarcely u.stood, quae parum accepi, id. N. D. 3, 1, 4.
      12. 12. căpesso, īvi., ītum, 3: Gell. 12, 1, 11.
      13. 13. sentio, si, sum, 4 (u. by senses): this animal alone u.s what order is, unum hoc animal sentit quid sit ordo, Cic. Off. 1, 4, 14.
      14. 14. ērŭdior, 4, pass. (to be instructed): he u.stood the Persian language so well, sermone Persarum adeo eruditus est, Nep. Them. 10.
      15. 15. interprĕtor, 1: a letter, which I could scarcely u., quam interpretari ipse vix poteram, Cic. Att. 15, 28.
    2. II. To receive information:
      1. 1. intellĭgo, lexi, lectum., 3: Cic. Att. 6, 9, 3.
      2. 2. compĕrio, ĕri, ertum, 4: these things were u.stood from the prisoners, ex captivis haec comperta, Liv. 27, 5: to have u.stood, compertum habeo, Cic. Cluent. 45, 127.
      3. 3. accĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3: if they had u.stood by common report, si ... accepissent fama et auditione., id. N. D. 2, 37, 95.
      4. 4. audio, 4: I have u.stood from older persons, audivi de majoribus natu, id. Brut. 26, 100.
      5. 5. certior fio: Caesar having u.stood by scouts, C. per exploratores c. factus, Caes. B. G. 1, 12.
    3. III. In gram.:
      1. 1. intellĭgo: a word is u.stood from another word, verbum ex verbo intelligitur (ἔκλειψις), Quint. 8, 6, 21.
      2. 2. subaudio: Ulp. Dig. 28, 5, 1: Ascon. in Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 4.