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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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• confine (v.):
      1. 1. claudo, si, sum, 3: to c. flocks in wattled pens, c. cratibus textis pecus, Hor.: a river c.d on both sides by very lofty banks, rivus praealtis utrinque clausus ripis, Liv. Similarly inclūdo, conclūdo, and (less freq.) circumclūdo: v. to shut in or up.
      2. 2. cŏerceo, 2: a river c.d by no banks, amnis nullis coercitus ripis, Liv.: Cic.: to c. the hair in a knot, nodo c. crines, Hor.: by these works the enemy is c.d within the walls, his operibus intra muros coercetur hostis, Liv.
      3. 3. cŏhĭbeo, 2: three hundred chains c. Pirithous, trecentae Pirithoum c. catenae, Hor.: to c. the arm in the toga, brachium toga c., Cic.
      4. 4. contĭneo, ui, tentum, 2: he c.d his army in the camp, exercitum castris continuit, Caes.: to c. oneself to the house, se domi c., Suet. (Cohibeo, coerceo, and contineo signify to restrain, to put constraint upon: while claudo and its compounds denote simply to inclose or confine).
      5. 5. constringo, nxi, ctum, 3 (to c. tightly: v. to bind): to c. men's bodies in irons, c. corpora vinclis, Cic.
      6. 6. vincio, nxi, nctum, 4: v. to bind.
      7. 7. circumscrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (i. e. as it were to draw a line round; hence to limit): to c. the body and to give the mind free scope, c. corpus et animo locum laxare, Sen. Phr.: to c. any one within narrow limits (as of the range of the orator), oratorem in exiguum gyrum compellere, Cic.: to c. oneself within too narrow limits (of the literal translator), desilire in artum, Hor. (similarly in exiguum, in exiguum angustumque concludi, contrahi, etc.: Cic.).: to be c.d to one's bed, in lecto detineri, Cic.; cubare, Hor.: or more precisely, lecto affixum esse, cf. Hor. S. 1, 1, 81: of a woman, părĕre; f. part. paritura, about to be c.d; puerperio cubare, Pl.: she was c.d at Antium, locus puerperii Antium fuit, Tac.: v. to bring forth.