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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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• abandon:
    1. I. To forsake, leave behind, or cease to aid and protect:
      1. 1. rĕlinquo, līqui, lictum, 3 (usu. without any notion of neglect: v. to leave): ab.'d possessions, relictae possessiones, Cic.: Rome must be ab.'d, Roma relinquenda est, Ov.: to ab. the standards, signa r., Liv. Adv. omnino, plane, prorsus.
      2. 2. dērĕlinquo, līqui, etc. (usu. implying neglect): we saw Ti. Gracchus ab.'d by Q. Tubero, Ti. Gracchum a Q. Tuberone derelictum videbamus, Cic.: an uncultivated and ab.'d soil, incultum et derelictum solum, Cic.: ab.'d not only by all good fortune, but even by all hope, ab omni non modo fortuna verum etiam spe derelicti, Cic.
      3. 3. dēsĕro, sĕrŭi, sertum, 3 (usu. implying faithlessness): do not ab. thy brother, ne desere fratrem, Virg.: Varus is ab.'d by his men, deseritur a suis Varus, Caes.. to ab. a cause, causam d., Cic.: to ab. the path of virtue, viam virtutis d., Hor. Adv. plane, omnino.
      4. 4. dēstĭtŭo, ŭi, ūtum., 3 (often stronger than desero): to ab. his defenders in the most critical moment of danger, defensores suos in ipso discrimine periculi d., Liv.: he complains that he has been ab.'d, quod sit destitutus queritur, Caes.: the water had ab.'d its channel, aqua alveum destituerat, Liv.
    2. II. To give up or over.
      1. 1. dēdo, dēdĭdi, dēdĭtum, 3: to ab. a person to anyone's cruelty, hominem crudelitati alicujus ded., Cic.: to ab. oneself to pleasures, voluptatibus se d., Cic.: to ab. oneself to idleness, desidiae se d., Cic.: v. to surrender.
      2. 2. abjĭcĭo, jēci, jectum, 3 (lit. to throw away): to ab. the design of making war, consilium belli faciendi ab., Cic.: Hor.
      3. 3. rĕlinquo, 3: to ab. a siege, obsidionem r., Caes.: to ab. a war, bellum r., Cic.: to ab. the city to plunder, urbem direptioni r., Cic.: to ab. a project, inceptum r., Virg.
      4. 4. dēsĕro, 3: to ab. one's right, suum jus d., Cic.: to ab. life, vitam d., Cic.
      5. 5. dīmitto, mīsi, missum, 3: to ab. all hope, omnem spem di., Caes.
      6. 6. ŏmitto, 3: he ab.'d the blockade of our men, obsessionem nostrorum omisit, Caes.: to ab. pleasures, voluptates om., Cic. Join: relinquere et prodere, Cic.: deserere et derelinquere, Cic.--Note. Relinquo, dimitto, omitto, abjicio denote simply to leave off, give up: desero and destituo, to abandon wilfully.