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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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• ease (subs.):
    1. I. A state of rest:
      1. 1. ōtium (the state of one who has no business to do; freedom from anxiety): to live in e., in otio vivere., Cic. Join: pax., tranquillitas., otium, Cic.: v. leisure, repose.
      2. 2. sēcūrĭtas (freedom from care): cf. Cic. Tusc. 5, 14, 42.
      3. 3. quies, ētis, f.: v. rest, quiet. Phr.: at one's e., otiosus, Cic. (v. idle): I take my e. at home, domesticus otior, Hor.: (domi otiosus sum, Cic. Brut. 3, 10): to live at one's e., otiose, bene (in comfort) vivere, Cic.; facile agere, Ter. Ad. 3, 5, 56; facile vivere, Pl. Curc. 5, 2, 6; facile agitare, poet. in Suet. vit. Ter. 1: in all possible e. (of the gods of Epicurus)., summa cum pace, Lucr.: e. after toil, requies laborum., Plin.: to have a mind at e., tranquillo animo esse, Cic.: to set any one's mind at e., alicujus animum sedare, tranquillum reddere (v. to calm): take thine e., eat, drink, and be merry, requiesce, comede, bibe, epulare, Vulg. Luc. xii 19: I am somehow ill at e., nescio quid meo animo aegre est, Pl.
    2. II. Absence of stiffness or constraint:
      1. 1. perh. lĕpos or lĕpor, ōris: v. grace.
      2. 2. (in speaking) făcĭlĭtas (perfect command of the resources of oratory): Sen. Ep. 40, 11: cf. Suet. Gr. 23 (f. sermonis). Phr.: there was an elegant e. about his manner, *inerat ei suavitas quaedam morum atque concinnitas: there was a lack of e. about his manner, *mores ejus duriores ac paene vasti (v. awkward): to dance with e., membra molliter movere, Hor. S. 1, 9, 24.
    3. III. Easiness: făcĭlĭtas: e. in bringing forth children, f. pariendi, Plin.: v. facility. Phr.: with e., facile (v. easily): to speak with e. and readiness, solute prompteque eloqui, Tac.: Cic.; expedite loqui., Suet.
    4. IV. Phr.: chapel of e., *ecclesia (capella) parochialis subsidiaria (?).