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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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• corrupt (v.):
    1. I. To change from a sound to a putrid state:
      1. 1. corrumpo, rūpi, ruptum, 3: esp. as reflect.; to become corrupt, suffer corruption, Cic.
      2. 2. vĭtio, 1: v. to taint: of the action of pestilence on the air, Ov.
      3. 3. In pass.: to become c.'d: putresco, putrĕfīo: v. to rot.
    2. II. In moral sense:
      1. 1. corrumpo, 3: to c. (the morals of) a state, mores civitatis c., Cic.: in the same passage (Leg. 3, 14), corrumpere is used absol.: to c. (men) by example, exemplo c. With the direct acc. (with or without pecunia), corrumpere usu. signifies to bribe (q. v.), or in the case of a woman, to seduce (q. v.).
      2. 2. dēprāvo, 1 (to alter for the worse): the Campanians were c.'d by abundance, Campanos nimiae rerum omnium copiae depravabant, Cic. Join: corrumpere et depravare: Cic. (N.B. Corrumpo by itself is not always taken in bad sense.)
      3. 3. inquĭno, 1: v. defile, pollute.
      4. 4. Expr. with phr.: as, vitiis inficere, Cic.: v. infect: vitia in civitatem infundere, id.: turpissimis imbuere cupiditatibus, Nep.: mala facinora edocere, Sall. Sometimes mutare, immutare, may be sufficient: i. e. when the context shows that the change is for the worse: cf. Sall. Cat. 10, fin. (by a somewhat harsh fig., the latter has vexare mores civitatis, of the influence of bad passions upon them, Cat. 6): in pass. in vitium labi, Hor.: pejorem, deteriorem fieri, etc.: v. to deteriorate: to c. by bribery (besides pecunia corrumpere, v. supr.), pecunia oppugnare, Cic.: sollicitare, Curt.: corruptelam (judicis) moliri, Cic., etc.: v. bribery: by various artifices, (animos militum) variis artibus subruere, Tac.: v. to tamper with, undermine.
    3. III. To debase, falsify: corrumpo, dēprāvo (Cic. uses both of the perverse ingenuity of the lawyers: Mur, 12, 27): v. falsify. Phr.: the language of Greece is very much c.'d, *multum immutata est ac depravata lingua Hellenistica a vetere illo ac puro Graecorum sermone.