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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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• drain (subs.):
      1. 1. clŏāca: v. sewer.
      2. 2. fossa incīlis (for drawing off water from lands): to keep d.s cleaned out, fossas inc. puras habere, Cato: Col. The neut. form also occurs as subs.: to open d.s, incilia aperire, Cato: to make a d., incile ducere, Ulp.
      3. 3. collĭciae or collĭquiae, ārum: to draw off water into a d., humorem in colliquias derivare, Col.
      4. 4. ēlĭces, um, m. (= sulci aquarii, Col. 2, 8: these appear to be channels not closed at the top): Col.: Fest.
      5. 5. fossa (where the context would prevent ambiguity): v. ditch.
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• drain (v.):
    1. I. To draw off the water from land:
      1. 1. sicco, 1: to d. marshes, paludes s., Cic.
      2. 2. incilibus ductis humorem ex agris derivare: v. preced. art.: paludis collectum humorem deducere, Virg. G. 1, 114.
    2. II. To drink off at a draught:
      1. 1. haurio, si, stum, 4: to d. the foaming bowl, spumantem pateram h., Virg.
      2. 2. exhaurio, 4: to d. a cup, poculum ex., Cic. Fig.: to d. the treasury, aerarium ex., Cic.: to d. the cup of wretchedness to the dregs, *miserias ex. (Liv. has ex. labores, 21, 21).
      3. 3. exsicco, 1: flagons d.'d dry, lagenae exsiccatae, Q. Cic.: to d. golden goblets of wine, aureis ex. vina culullis, Hor.
      4. 4. ēbĭbo, 3: v. to drink.
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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• DRAIN
1. s. incilis fossa, incile (for water); fossa percussa ad colligendum humorem circumjacentium agrorum (for collecting the water from lands; Plin., Ep. 10, 70, 4); cloaca (a sewer, explained, Liv., 1, 56, by receptaculum purgamentorum). A clearing of drains, i. e., sewers, purgatio cloacarum (Traj. ap. Plin., Ep. 10, 4): to open a drain, incile aperire; to make one, incile ducere.
2. v. (a field, etc.), siccare (general term, to dry up, paludes, agros, etc.): fossis siccare (e.g., humidum locum): fossas percutere ad colligendum humorem agrorum: *fossis percussis humorem agri colligere.