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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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• against:
    1. I. Upon (usu. with an implication of force):
      1. 1. ĭn (with acc.): he runs and falls a. me, in me incurrit atque incidit, Cic.: the Gauls rush a. the Romans, Galli in Romanos incurrunt, Liv.
      2. 2. ăd (with acc.): to strike one's head a. an arch, caput ad fornicem offendere, Quint.: they lean a. the trees, se ad arbores applicant, Caes.: v. upon. (In this sense against is usu. expr. by prefixes to the verbs, as, to run a., incurro, occurro, etc.: for which see the several verbs.)
    2. II. In opposition; denoting hostility, contradiction, disapprobation, injury, protection from:
      1. 1. contrā (with acc. in all the above senses): to conspire a. the Roman people, conjurare c. populum R., Caes.: Cic.: one man can do nothing a. many, nihil unus potest c. multos, Cic.: a. any one's judgment, c. alicujus judicium, Cic. (v. contrary to): evidence which is a. any one, testimonium quod c. aliquem est, Cic.: this is not only not in my favour, but is a. me, hoc non modo non pro me sed c. me est, Cic.: a protection a. cold, tutela c. frigora, Plin.: Cic.
      2. 2. ĭn (with acc.: esp. of direct attack upon): to inflame the people a. evil men, populum inflammare in improbos, Cic.: to inveigh a. the tribunes, in tribunos incurrere, Liv.
      3. 3. adversŭs or adversum (with acc.: of direct hostility and of remedies a.): I will follow you a. my old allies, sequar vos adv. veteres socios meos, Liv.: I will not contend a. you, non contendam ego adv. te, Cic.: remedies a. poisons, remedia adv. venena, Cels.
      4. 4. ăd (with acc.: rare): they dare to go a. any number of horse-soldiers, ad quemvis numerum equitum adire audent, Caes.: to prepare for war a. the enemy, ad hostes bellum parare, Liv.: v. also, contrary to, from, for.
    3. III. In a contrary direction: contrā (with acc.): the beams turned a. the force and current of the river, tigna c. vim atque impetum fluminis conversa, Caes. Phr.: a. the stream, adverso flumine or in adversum flumen, Caes.: Liv.: the winds are dead a. us, venti nobis adversissimi sunt, Caes.: v. opposite to.
    4. IV. By a given time; v. by.