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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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• compose:
    1. I. To put together, combine: chiefly if not solely in pass., to be composed (i. e. formed) of:
      1. 1. compōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3: mankind c.d of soul and body, genus hominum compositum ex anima et corpore, Sall.: Col.: v. to compound.
      2. 2. contĭneo, ui, tentum, 2 (only in pass.): the verse is c.d of a few feet, versus paucis pedibus continetur, Quint.
      3. 3. conflo, 1 (in pass.): the elements of which the virtue we are in quest of is c.d and made up, quibus ex rebus conflatur et efficitur id quod quaerimus honestum, Cic.
      4. 4. effĭcio, 3: v. supr. (3); and to make up.
      5. 5. consisto, consto i. e. to consist: q. v.
    2. II. Of literary composition:
      1. 1. compōno, 3: to c. a book, librum c., Cic.: to c. verses, versus c., Hor.: Plin. Ep.
      2. 2. condo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (less frequent): to c. a poem, poëma c., Cic.: Virg Ov.
      3. 3. contexo, ui, textum, 3 (prop. to weave together): to c. a speech, orationem c., Quint.: to c. a book, librum c., Sen. (simly, Nep. has subtexere carmina).
      4. 4. dēdūco, xi, ductum, 3 (i. e. to spin: hence only of verse): to c. a thousand verses in a day, mille die versus d., Hor.: Quint.
      5. 5. pango, pĕpĭgi, pactum, 3 (prop. to fasten, frame: rare in this sense except in imperf. tenses: but Enn. ap. Cic. has panxit): to c. anything Sophoclean, aliquid Sophocleum p., Cic.: to c. poems, poëmata p., Hor.: Lucr.
      6. 6. sĕro, ŭi, sertum, 3 (rare): to c. speeches, orationes s., Liv. to c. a play, fabulam s., Liv.
      7. 7. făcio, 3 (of poems: cf. Old-Eng. "to make"): to c. a poem, poema f., Cic.: to c. verselets, versiculos f., Virg.
    3. III. To adjust, calm, appease:
      1. 1. compōno, 3: to c. affairs disturbed by mutiny, turbatas seditione res c., Liv.: v. to arrange, settle.
      2. 2. sēdo, 1: v. to assuage, appease.