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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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• conceive (v.):
    1. I. Of offspring: concĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3: Perseus, whom Danae had c.d in a shower of gold, Perseus quem Danaë pluvio conceperat auro, Ov.: also without object expr.: when a mule has c.d, quum concepit mula, Cic.: Varr.: to c. by any one, c. ex aliquo, Cic.; de aliquo, Ov.: v. pregnant (to become). Fig.: they not only c. vices themselves, but diffuse them over the community, non solum vitia c. ipsi, sed ea infundunt in civitatem, Cic.
    2. II. To form or harbour in the mind; as, a design; a passion, hope, fear, etc.:
      1. 1. concĭpio, 3: to c. a hope or fear, spem, metum c., Ov. (also, spe aliquid c., Liv.): to c. a crime, scelus, flagitium c., Cic.: to c. the passion of love, amorem c., Ov.
      2. 2. căpio, 3: to c. a design, consilium c., Caes.: Cic. (foll. by gen. of gerund or gerundive; by inf.; or by ut and subj.): to c. animosity, inimicitias c., Ter.: Cic.: but the converse constr. is very common: as, odium me capit alicujus, Cic.
      3. 3. fingo, finxi, fictum, 3 (to frame or design in the mind): c. to yourselves the picture of my condition, fingite cogitatione imaginem hujus conditionis meae, Cic.: also f. animo, Cic.: what crime can be c.d or thought of, which he, etc., quid mali fingi aut excogitari potest, quod ille, etc., Cic.: to c. an evil deed, maleficium c., Cic.: v. to devise. Phr.: to c. a hope that something will happen, in spem venire, fore ut, etc., Caes.: to c. a guilty design upon a person's life, consilium facinoris contra vitam alicujus inire, Cic.: Caes.: v. design: there is no pleasure of which we do not c. a disgust from constant repetition, nulla voluptas est quae non assiduitate fastidium pariat, Plin.
    3. III. To understand, comprehend:
      1. 1. comprĕhendo, 3: v. to comprehend.
      2. 2. excōgĭto, 1 (to find out by thinking; to devise): life, than which nothing more blessed can be c.d, vita, qua nihil beatius excogitari potest, Cic.
      3. 3. intellĭgo, lexi, ctum, 3: often joined with a similar verb: as to c. what soul is, apart from body, qualis animus sit vacans corpore int. et cogitatione comprehendere. Cic. v. to understand, imagine, suppose.