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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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• delay (v.):
    1. I. Trans.:
      1. 1. mŏror, 1: to d. and hinder the enemy's march, hostium iter m. atque impedire, Caes.: Cic.
      2. 2. rĕmŏror, 1 (to keep back): to d. anyone's march, iter r., Sall.: Cic.
      3. 3. dēmŏror, 1 (strengthened from moror): no enemy d.ing the march, nullo hoste iter demorante, Caes.: Cic.
      4. 4. tardo, 1 (to cause to be slow or behind time): to d. a start, profectionem t., Cic.: also rĕtardo: id.
      5. 5. dētĭneo, ui, tentum, 2: v. detain.
      6. 6. expr. by mŏra: as, to d. a thing, moram alicui rei inferre, Cic.: Caes.: m. facere, Cic.: Liv.: cf. to defer, postpone.
    2. II. Intrans.:
      1. 1. cunctor, 1: (Fabius) by d.ing restored the empire, cunctando restituit rem, Enn. ap. Cic. but usu. the word implies blame: Join: (non) cunctandum neque cessandum esse, Liv.
      2. 2. cesso, 1: v. loiter: to d. to die, mori cessare, Hor.
      3. 3. tardo, 1 (usu. trans.: v. supr.): whether it were better to d., an t. melius esset, Cic.
      4. 4. mŏror, 1: v. linger. Phr.: he d.'d not to come, nihil in mora habuit quominus veniret, Vell.: comp. foll. art.