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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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• fill (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. Lit.: to make full:
      1. 1. impleo, ēvi, ētum, 2 (usu. with acc. and abl.; also acc. and gen.): she f.'d a bowl with wine, implevit pateram mero, Virg.: to f. a pot with denaries, ollam denariorum i., Cic. Fam. 9, 18: Virg.: waxing moons f. out the shell-fish, nascentes i. conchylia lunae, Plin.: Neptune f.'d the sails with auspicious gales. Neptunus ventis implevit vela secundis, Virg. See also inf. (II.).
      2. 2. compleo, ēvi, ētum, 2 (to f. completely: same constr. as preced.): they f. up the trenches with faggots and bushes, fossas sarmentis et virgultis complent, Liv.: a prison f.'d with traders, completus mercatorum carcer, Cic.: to f. a page (with writing), paginam c., Cic. Att. 13, 34: they f. the whole plain, omnem planitiem complent, Caes. B. G. 7, 79.
      3. 3. expleo, 2: v. to fill up.
      4. 4. repleo, 2 (strictly, to f. again, sometimes simply to fill): to f. oneself with food, se esca r., Pl.: to f. the plains with carnage, campos strage hominum r., Liv. 9, 40, ad med.
      5. 5. oppleo, 2 (to f. to choking): Pl.: Varr.
      6. 6. suppleo, 2 (to f. up what is lacking): v. to fill up, supply.
      7. 7. cŭmŭlo, 1: v. to heap, pile.
      8. 8. occŭpo, 1 (to take possession of, cover): to f. the Tyrrhene sea with hewn stone, Tyrrhenum mare caementis o., Hor. Od. 3, 24, 3.
    2. II. To pervade; as sounds, etc.:
      1. 1. compleo, 1: the sound f.s the ears, sonus aures c., Cic. Rep. 6, 18: Hor.
      2. 2. repleo, 2: to f. the groves and mountains with moaning, nemora ac montes gemitu r., Lucr. 5, 992.
      3. 3. impleo, 2: they f. the rocks with lacrymose cries, scopulos implent lacrymosis vocibus, Virg. Aen. 11, 274.
      4. 4. cĕlebro, concĕlebro, 1 (of sounds repeated again and again): my ears are every day f.'d with rumours, fama, nuntiis celebrantur aures quotidie meae, Cic. Prov. Cons. 9, 22: esp. poet., to f. all the street with song, cantu conc. omnem plateam, Pl. Cas. 4, 3, 2: v. to pervade.
    3. III. To inspire with some emotion:
      1. 1. impleo, 2: to f. the multitude with unfounded expectation, multitudinem exspectatione vana i., Liv. 32, 29: Hor.
      2. 2. compleo, 2 (stronger than preced.): to f. any one with joy, aliquem gaudio c., Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 69: rarely in this sense with gen.: I will f. them with delusion, erroris illos complebo, Pl. Amph. 1, 2, 9.
      3. 3. expleo, 2 (rare in this sense): Ter.: v. to satisfy.
      4. 4. repleo, 2 (rare in this sense): to f. one's country with joy, patriam laetitia r., Vell. 2, 103, 1.
      5. 5. perfundo, fūdi, sum, 3 (lit. to drench, bathe with: a strong expr.): ye gods! what horror f.'d me, dii immortales, qui me horror perfudit! Cic. Att. 8, 6: to be f.'d (beyond measure) with joy, gaudio perfundi, Liv.
      6. 6. injīcio, jēci, jectum, 3 (lit. to put into: with acc. and dat.): v. to inspire with.
    4. IV. To discharge an office: fungor (with abl.), gĕro: v. to discharge, fulfil.
  2. B. Intrans.: to become full: expr. by pass. reflect. of compleo, impleo, etc.: the ditches f., implentur fossae, Virg. G. 1, 326: or invert the sentence, expressing by the act. voice: the ships of war were f.ing with water as the tide came in, naves longas aestus complebat, Caes. B. G. 4, 29. Phr.: the hold f.s with water, haurit alvus aquas, Ov. Fast. 3, 492; navis imbrem (aquam) accipit, Virg. Aen. 1, 123.