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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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• wash (v.):
    1. I. Trans.:
      1. 1. lăvo, 1, and lāvi, lautum, 3 (the most gen. term): to w. hands, manus lavare, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 246: to w. hair, crines l., Hor. Od. 4, 6, 26: he w.'d the sacred vessels in the water, sacra lavit aquis, Ov. Fast. 4, 340: to w. with tears, lacrimis l., Pl. Ps. 1, 1, 8: the sea w.'d the sands, mare lavit arenas, Ov. M. 7, 267. Fig.: to w. away evils with wine, mala vino lavere, Hor. Od. 3, 13, 2: you come to w. out your fault by prayers, venis precibus lautum peccatum tuum, Ter. Ph. 5, 7, 80.
      2. 2. luo, lui, 3 (rare, and poet.): Greece is w.'d by the Ionian sea, Graecia luitur Ionio, Sil. 11, 22.
      3. 3. abluo, ui, ūtum, 3 (to w. away): he seeks the bath to w. away the blood, petit balineas abluendo cruori, Tac. H. 3, 32: w. away the perjury, ablue perjuria, Ov. F. 5, 681.
      4. 4. ēluo (to rinse, w. out): to w. out dishes, patinas e., Pl. Capt. 3, 2, 66: to w. out colour, colorem e., Lucr. 6, 1076. Fig.: crime is w.'d out, scelus eluitur, Virg. Aen. 6, 742.
      5. 5. perluo (to w. thoroughly): he w.s his hands, perluit manus, Ov. F. 5, 435.
      6. 6. alluo (to w. against): the river w.s the sides of the island, fluvius alluit latera insulae, Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6.
    2. II. Intrans.: to w., to bathe:
      1. 1. lăvor, 1: they w. in the rivers, lavantur in fluminibus, Caes. B. G. 4, 1.
      2. 2. lăvo, 1 and 3: fish are w.ing all their life long, pisces usque dum vivunt lavant, Pl. 2, 3, 1.
      3. 3. perluor, 3: I w. in cold water, gelida perluor unda, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 4. Phr.: this dress will (will not) w., *huic vesti post lavationem stat (evanescit) color.