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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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• farm (subst.):
      1. 1. fundus: the produce and cultivation of a f., fundi fructus et cultura, Cic.: my f., f. meus, Hor.: the word fundus included both house and land: ager cum aedificio fundus dicitur, Florent. Dig.: v. estate.
      2. 2. praedium (rustĭcum): Dimin., praediŏlum: v. estate.
      3. 3. ăger, gri, m. (any land): my Sabine f., ager Sabinus, Hor. Dimin., ăgellus: poor and owning but a meagre little f., macro pauper agello, Hor.
      4. 4. rūs, rūris, n. (poet.): admire large f.s, till a small one, laudato ingentia rura, exiguum colito, Virg.: one's paternal f., paternum r., p. rura, Hor.: from my own f. adjoining, ex meo propinquo rure, Ter.
      5. 5. ărātĭo (prop. a portion of public land, esp. in a province: cf. Cic. Verr. 3., 98, extr.): this man rented large f.s, is arationes magnas conductas habebat, Cic. Phr.: a f. house, villa: Col.: Cat.: a small f. house, villŭla: Cic.: a f. labourer, cŏlōnus, Virg.: Cic.: belonging to a f.-house, villātĭcus., Col.
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• farm (v.):
    1. I. To till:
      1. 1. cŏlo, 3: v. to cultivate.
      2. 2. ăro, 1: the Roman citizens who f. in Sicily, cives R. qui arant in Sicilia, Cic.: Virg.
    2. II. To rent, hire:
      1. 1. condūco, xi, ctum, 3: to f. the taxes, vectigalia c., Cic.
      2. 2. rĕdĭmo, ēmi, emptum, 3: to f. the customs, portoria r., Caes.: Cic.
    3. III. To lease or let: lŏco, 1: to f. out the dues, portorium locare (opp. to conducere, to contract for them), Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 47: v. to contract.
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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• FARM
1. s. rusticum praedium (the proper word; opposed to urbanum praedium = property in houses): fundus (an estate usually with one or more buildings attached to it): villa (the country-house, with or without land): ager: rus (PROP., country, opposed to town; hence, by metonymy = landed estate. In this meaning, as well as in that of country, rus, rure are mostly without a preposition [☞ Plaut., Merc., 3, 3, 25; Capt., 1, 1, 10] unless they have an adjective or possessive pronoun with them, when the preposition is mostly, but not always, expressed; cum in rura sua venerunt, Cic.; in Albense rus, Plin.; in Veliterno rure, Plin.; but also nugari rure paterno, Hor.; rure dapes parat ille suo, Ov.). A farm near the town, praedium suburbanum: a small farm, praediolum, agellus; also hortuli (☞ Cic., Eclog., p. 157): a farm-house, villa: a small farm-house, villula: to go about one’s farms, fundos obire: to till a farm, praedium colere or colere et tueri: the profits of a farm, fructus praedii.
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  • v. To cultivate a farm, agrum colere (general term). To be very fond of farming, voluptatibus agricolarum incredibiliterdelectari (Cic.): a treatise on farming, liber de rebus rusticis, or de agricultura, scriptus.
  • To give a certain sum for tolls, taxes, etc., in the hope of making profit by them, conducere (general term): redimere (with the intention of re-letting them in small portions). To farm the taxes, vectigalia redimere: to wish to farm them, ad vectigalia accedere.
  • To lease or let (the revenues, etc.): locare: elocare (e.g., gentem Judaeorum = ejus vectigalia, Cic., Flacc., 28, fin.).