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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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• encounter (v.):
    1. I. To meet unexpectedly:
      1. 1. offendo, di, sum, 3: to e. any one in a street, aliquem in platea off., Ter.: Cic.: v. to find.
      2. 2. incĭdo, di, 3: v. to fall in with.
      3. 3. obviam fīo, factus, fĭĕri (with dat.): he e.s Clodius in front of his estate, Clodio fit obviam ante fundum ejus, Cic.: v. to meet.
    2. II. To confront in a hostile manner:
      1. 1. obviam eo, 4, irr. (to confront: with dat.): to e. the enemy, ob. ire hostibus, Sall.: v. to face, withstand.
      2. 2. concurro, curri, rsum, 3 (to rush upon each other): they e. each other in direct charge, cum infestis signis concurrunt, Sall. Cat. 60: to e. with equal arms (in civil war), paribus c. telis, Virg. G. 1, 489: also of the party attacking: though a virgin she dares to e. men, audet viris c. virgo, Virg. A. 1, 493. Impers., they e., concurritur, Hor. S. 1, 1, 7.
      3. 3. conflīgo, xi, ctum, 3 (to come into collision): adverse winds e. each other., adversi venti c., Virg. A. 2, 417: to e. in arms, armis c., Cic.: usu. foll. by cum, to e. the enemy, [manu] cum hoste c., Cic. Off. 1, 23, 81: also by adversus, "paucis navibus adversus Rhodiorum classem conflixit," Nep. Hann. 8, fin.; and by contra: to e. a most abominable conspiracy, contra sceleratissimam conjurationem c., Brut. in Cic. Fam. 11, 13, fin.
      4. 4. congrĕdior, gressus, 3 (very freq. of coming to a battle): as often as he e.'d the Roman people in Italy, quotiescunque cum P. R. congressus est in Italia, Nep. Hann. 1: also foll. by contra, Cic. Lig. 3, 9: v. to engage.
      5. 5. incurro, 3: v. to charge. See also to resist, oppose.
    3. III. To face, to endure courageously: Phr.: to e. death, mortem oppetere, Cic.: Virg.: to e. danger, periculo obire, periculum subire: v. to face, undergo.