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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 (subs.):
      1. 1. mŏra: to occasion d. in the levying of troops, moram delectui facere, Liv.: also inferre, Cic.: Caes.: to devise (repeated) d.s, moras nectere, Sen.: without d., sine m., Cic.: I will marry her without d., nec ulla m. est quin eam uxorem ducam, Ter.
      2. 2. cunctātio, 4 (implying blame; whereas mora is neutral): casting aside, all d., abjecta omni c. (= sine cunctatione, id.), Cic.
      3. 3. cessātio (doing anything slackly, loitering): v. idleness.
      4. 4. prōcrastĭnātio (putting off from day to day): Cic.: v. procrastination.
      5. 5. prōlātio (act of putting off): v. POSTPONEMENT.
      6. 6. prōlātātio: similar to prolatio: Tac.
      7. 7. dīlātio: to beg for d., d. petere, Plin.: to grant d., dare d., Quint.: without d., sine d., Vell. Phr.: after a d. of a few days had been granted you to pay, paucis tibi ad solvendum prorogatis diebus, Cic.: after three days' d. (interval), triduo intermisso, Caes.: full of d.s, cunctabundus, Liv.