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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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• wear (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To impair by rubbing:
      1. 1. tĕro, trīvi, trītum, 3: time w.s hard flint, tempus terit rigidas silices, Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 14: a worn (threadbare) garment, trita vestis, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 38.
      2. 2. attĕro: Hannibal had greatly worn down the strength of Italy, Hannibal Italiae opes maxime attriverat, Sall. J. 5.
      3. 3. dētĕro: stone pavements worn by the feet of multitudes, strata volgi pedibus detrita viarum saxea, Lucr. 1, 316.
      4. 4. contĕro (the strongest compound of tero): we w. out our oxen, conterimus boves, Lucr. 2, 1160: to w. out a book by constant reading, conterere librum legendo, Cic. Fam. 9, 25, 1.
      5. 5. tĕnuo, 1 (to make thin): a worn body, tenuatum corpus, Hor. S. 2, 2, 84.
      6. 6. exĕdo, ēdi, ēsum, 3 (to eat away): sorrow w.s the mind, aegritudo exest animum, Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 27: v. to consume, to waste.
    2. II. To wear, carry on the body, as clothes:
      1. 1. gĕro, gessi, gestum, 3: to w. a garment, vestem gerere, Lucr. 5, 1419: to w. ornaments, ornamenta g., Suet. Caes. 84.
      2. 2. gesto, 1: he wore a laurel chaplet, coronam auream gestavit, Suet. Tib. 69: to w. a ring on the finger, g. gemmam digito, Plin. 2, 63, 63. The part. wearing may be expressed by: (1.) indūtus (of any garment): wearing anything you like, quidlibet indutus, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 28: w.ing slippers, indutus soccis, Cic. de Or. 3, 32, 127. (2.) ămictus (of upper garments): w.ing a toga, amictus toga, Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 85. Or single Latin words may be used, acc. to the special article: w.ing shoes, calceatus: w.ing a toga, togatus: w.ing a cloak, palliatus (palliolatim amictus, Pl.): w.ing the praetexta, praetextatus.
  2. B. Intrans.: To stand wear: Phr.: to w. (last) through all time, omnem durare per aevom, Lucr. 3, 604: they will w. well and improve by age, annos ferent et vetustate proficient, Quint. 2, 4, ad init.