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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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• watch (subs.):
    1. I. A keeping awake: vĭgĭlia: who has not heard of Demosthenes' watches? cui non auditae sunt Demosthenis vigiliae? Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: v. wakefulness.
    2. II. A keeping awake for security, a guard:
      1. 1. vĭgĭlia (by night): that they might keep w. by night, ut noctu vigilias agerent, Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93: wearied with sentries and w.s, stationibus vigiliisque fessus, Liv. 5, 48: hence of the time of a w., a fourth part of the night: in the first w., prima vigilia, Liv. 5, 44: of the persons: to arrange the w. through the city, disponere vigilias per urbem, Liv. 39, 14, fin.
      2. 2. excŭbiae, arum (by day or night): arms, cohorts, w.s, arma, cohortes, excubiae, Cic. Mil. 25, 67: of the persons: he orders the military w. to depart, excubias militares degredi jubet, Tac. A. 13, 18.
      3. 3. stătio (the post: hence, esp. in plur., the sentry, the w.): the w. duly arranged, dispositae stationes, Caes. B. G. 5, 16.
      4. 4. custōdia (safe keeping): keep w. here, agitato hic custodiam, Pl. Rud. 3, 6, 20: a colony secured by w.s, colonia custodiis munita, Cic. Cat. 1, 3, 8. Phr.: to set a w., vigilias, etc., ponere, disponere: to keep w., v. agere, obire: to keep w. over: custodire aliquem: v. to watch: to visit, inspect the w., vigilias circumire, Tac.: to set a strong w. about the house, domum magnis praesidiis firmare, Cic.
    3. III. A watch to tell the time: no exact word; the Romans had no portable timepiece: use hōrŏlŏgium (time-marker generally); sōlārium (sun-dial); clepsydra (water-clock): v. clock. With horologium for a watch, the foll. phrases may serve: the hand of a w., *horologii virgula, gnomon (the pointer of a sun-dial): a w. goes, *h. movetur: stops, *stat: is too fast, slow, *celerius, tardius movetur: to wind up a w., *h. intendere: w.-chain, w.-case, *horologii catella, theca: w.-maker, *horologiorum artifex.