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

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• drag (subs.):
    1. I. A clod-breaking machine: trăha, trăhĕa; rastrum: v. harrow.
    2. II. A light vehicle: perh. rhēda or pĕtorrĭtum: v. carriage.
    3. III. A grappling-instrument: harpăgo., uncus: v. grappling-iron, hook.
    4. IV. For slackening the speed of a vehicle: sufflāmen, ĭnis, n.: v. break.
    5. V. Anything which retards: Phr.: to be a d. upon any one, tardare, retardare: v. to retard.
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• drag (v.):
    1. I. Trans.:
      1. 1. trăho, xi, ctum, 3 (in most senses of the Eng.): oxen d. wains., boves plaustra tr., Virg.: to d. Hector round Troy, Hectora circum Pergama tr., Ov.: to d. any one before the praetor, aliquem ad praetorem tr., Pl.: d.ing his weary limbs along, aegra genua trahens, Virg.
      2. 2. răpio, pui, ptum, 3 (with suddenness or violence): to d. a person into court, aliquem r. in jus, Hor.; into prison, in carcerem, Suet. See also foll. art.
    2. II. Intrans.: to hang to the ground; to become tedious: Phr.: to prevent their tails d.ing, *ne iis caudae humi trahantur: letting his robe d. in the dust, pulveream trahens pallam, Ov.: the story d.s toward the end, *extrema historia longius ducitur, ita ut legentibus taedium afferat: v. to drag on (II.)
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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• DRAG
1.
  • s. Car drawn by the hand, traha (without wheels; Col. 2, 20, 4: a little drag., tragula, Varr., L.L., 5, 31, 39).
  • Instrument with hooks (for dragging a river to find a dead body, etc.), harpogo (general term; for an instrument with which to snatch anything).
  • Dragnet; Vid :
2. v. TRANS., trahere (general term in almost every meaning of the English verb; fessum corpus vix trahere posse; trahere reos pedibus; aliquem tribus catenis vinctum; Hectorem circa sua Pergama, Ov.; aliquem ad Praetorem; virginem passis crinibus a templo, Verg.; and IMPROP.; animum exigua spe, Liv.; aliquem secum in eandem calamitatem: to drag on a wretched existence, vitam, Plin.; and = “protract,” bellum, pugnam, aliquem diu; rem in serum, Liv.): rapere (☞ raptare, poetical; to drag along by irresistible force with the notion of resistance on the part of the person dragged): abstrahere: abripere (to drag away from or to a place): to drag forth, extrahere (e.g., aliquem domo latitantem, Cic.; aliquem elatebra, Suet.; senatores vi in publicum, Cic.; also = to protract, rem, certamen, etc.): protrahere (e.g., aliquem capillis in viam, Plaut.; aliquem ad judicium, Liv.; aliquem tenebris, Val. Max. and in Suet., etc. = “protract,” for which trahere, extrahere, or producere are used by writers of the Golden Age). To drag anybody to execution, aliquem rapere ad supplicium or mortem: to drag anybody before a court, aliquem rapere in jus: to drag anybody with one, trahere aliquem secum. Vid: To DRAW.
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  • INTRANS., To drag (of a gown, etc.), verrere terram (after Claudius, Stilich., 2, 248): to let it drag, trahere.
  • To drag for fish, *everriculo piscari or pisces capere.