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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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• enlist:
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To enter for military service:
      1. 1. scrībo, psi, ptum, 3: to e. soldiers, milites s., Sall.: Liv.: v. to enrol.
      2. 2. conscrībo, 3 (only of a number): Sall.: Liv.
      3. 3. expr. by sacrāmentum (the military oath), with ădĭgo, oblĭgo, etc.: to e. the younger men, juniores sacramento adigere, Liv. 4, 5: Tac.: to e. a man over again, aliquem secundo militiae sacramento obligare, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36: the soldiers whom he had e.'d in Cisalpine Gaul, quos ex Gallia Cis. sacramento rogavisset, Caes. B. G. 6, 1.
      4. 4. condūco, 3: v. to hire.
      5. 5. conquīro,**P2: ,] quīsīvi, tum, 3 (to get together from various quarters: not therefore to be used of ordinary Roman enlistment): Liv. (in Kr.): simly, conquisitionem habere militum, Liv. 23, 32, fin.
      6. 6. păro, compăro, 1 (to raise troops): v. to raise.
    2. II. To induce to join a side:
      1. 1. trăho, xi, ctum., 3 (esp. with in partes, in sententiam): she (Livia) had e.'d Drusus on her side, Drusum traxerat in (suas) partes, Tac. A. 4, 60: the patricians had e.'d a part of the tribunes on their side, partem tribunorum Pl. Patres in suam sententiam traxerant, Liv. 5, 25, init.
      2. 2. trādūco: v. to bring over.
      3. 3. concĭlio, 1 (esp. with ref. to the feelings): if some deity will only e. your sympathies on my behalf, si quis mihi deus vestram ad me audiendum benevolentiam conciliarit, Cic. Clu. 3, 7.
  2. B. Intrans.: to enter one's name for military service:
      1. 1. expr. by nōmen, with do, ēdo, prōfĭteor: they encouraged one another not to e., alius alium confirmare, nomina ne darent, Liv. 2, 24: a little below, nomen edere, nomina profiteri, occur in same sense (edere appears to be the more formal word, and profiteri to denote willingness to enlist).
      2. 2. sacrāmentum dīco, xi, ctum, 3 (cf. A., I., 3): that no one should be compelled to e. against his will, neu quis invitus s. dicere cogatur, Caes. B. C. 1, 86, fin.: Liv. (who has sacramento dicere, 2, 24, fin.). Phr.: a newly e.'d soldier, tīro: v. recruit.