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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 9 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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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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• contain:
    1. I. To hold, as a vessel:
      1. 1. căpio, cēpi, captum, 3: what a crowd there is! our house will scarce c. it, quid turbae est! aedes nostrae vix capient, Ter.: Cic.: Hor.: v. to hold. Hence, capable of c.ing, căpax (with gen.): a circus capable of c.ing a people, circus capax populi, Ov.: Cic.: v. foll. art.
      2. 2. contĭneo, ui, tentum, 2. the line c.s a hundred feet, linea centum c. pedes, Quint.: all things which are nourished and grow, c. in themselves the force of heat, omnia quae aluntur et crescunt c. in se vim caloris, Cic.
      3. 3. hăbeo, 2: Tartarus c.s the son of Panthus, Tartara h. Panthoiden, Hor.: what did that book c. which could be useful to you? quid tandem habuit liber iste, quod tibi usui esse posset? Cic.
      4. 4. insum, fui, esse (inverting the sentence): my purse c.'d 800 aurei, numi octingenti aurei in marsupio infuerunt, Pl.: the island of Crete c.s a hundred cities, *insunt in Creta insula urbes centum.
      5. 5. comprĕhendo, di, sum, 3: its circuit c.s two and thirty stades, circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia c., Curt.: v. to include, comprise.
    2. II. To hold in check:
      1. 1. contĭneo, 2 (esp. in pass. or with pron. refl.): I can hardly c. myself, vix contineor, vix me contineo: usu. foll. by quin: Ter.: Cic.
      2. 2. rĕtĭneo, tempĕro (esp. with pron. ref. in dat.): v. to refrain, forbear. Adj.: unable to c. (or control) oneself, impŏtens: Cic.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• CONTAIN
  • To hold (as a vessel, etc.), continere. complecti: comprehendere: habere (e.g., quid tandem habuit liber iste, quod, etc., what after all did the book contain, which, etc., Vid: Cic., Brut., 4, 14): to be contained in anything, aliqua re contineri; in aliqua re inesse: to be contained in philosophical works, philosophorum libris contineri, (Cic.).
  • Restrain; to contain one’s self, se tenere, cohibere, coercere or continere, potentem sui or mentis esse: compotem esse sui, or mentis, or animi: in potestate mentis esse: to be hardly able to contain oneself, vix se continere posse, quin, etc., vix temperare sibi posse, quin, etc.: I can hardly contain myself, vix comprimor, quin, etc. (Vid: Plaut., Most., 1, 3, 46): to be unable to contain one’s self, sui non potentem or sui impotentem esse: sui non compotem esse; also non apud se esse (to be beside one’s self; e.g., prae iracundia, not to contain one’s anger): to contain one’s anger, iram reprimere: not to contain one’s anger, ira teneri: not to be able to contain one’s anger, impotentem esse irae: to contain anybody in his duty (Spenser), coercere aliquem et in officio continere; to contain one’s tears, lacrimas tenere: fletum reprimere: lacrimis temperare (Cic.): one’s laughter, risum tenere, rontinere. Vid: RESTRAIN.