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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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• division:
    1. I. The act of dividing into parts:
      1. 1. dīvīsio: d.s of lands, Tac.: fourfold d., quadripartita d., Cic.
      2. 2. dīvīsus, ūs (only in dat.): easy of d., facilis divisui, Liv. 45, 30.
      3. 3. descriptio (laying out and distributing by plan): the d. into centuries and classes, d. centuriarum classiumque, Liv.: v. distribution.
      4. 4. partītio: Cic.
      5. 5. expr. by verbs under to divide (I., II.): easy of d., quod facile secatur, dividitur; for the d. of the spoil, ad praedam dispertiendam., dividendam, etc.
    2. II. Of a subject, by a writer:
      1. 1. partītio (into heads or branches): Cic.
      2. 2. dīvīsio (when things individually distinct are spoken of): Cic.: Quint.
    3. III. Disunion:
      1. 1. dissĭdium: v. disagreement.
      2. 2. sēdĭtio (political): a d. arose between those who were for war and those who were for peace, s. inter belli pacisque auctores orta., Liv.: v. sedition. Phr.: to be in a state of d., discrepare, dissidēre, dissentire: v. to disagree.
    4. IV. That which separates:
      1. 1. discrīmen, ĭnis, n. (only in fig. sense): to be separated by a very narrow d., pertenui d. separari, Cic.: v. distinction.
      2. 2. dīvīsūra (rare): Plin.: v. partition.
    5. V. A separate portion of a subject or work:
      1. 1. pars, partis, f.: cf. Liv. 21, 1, init. Dimin., partĭcŭla., a smaller division: v. portion.
      2. 2. căput, ĭtis, n. (a leading d.): the two first d.s of your letter, prima duo c. epistolae tuae, Cic.: v. head, chapter.
    6. VI. Of an army: no nearer word than exercitûs, copiarum pars. Phr.: in two, three d.s, bipartīto, tripartīto: to attack in two (three) d.s, signa bipartito inferre, Caes.; tripartito (urbem) aggredi, Liv.
    7. VII. Of the senate, for voting: discessio: to have recourse to a d., d. facere, Cic. Phil. 14, 7, fin. (but according to some the discessio was only made when the house was unanimous, Gell. 14, 7, ad fin.).