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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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• fetter (subs.):
      1. 1. compes, pĕdis, m. (strictly, for the feet): they put the slaves in f.s, servis indunt (injiciunt, impingunt) compedes, Pl.: Ter. Often fig.: in the f.s of the body, in corporis compedibus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 75: Hebrus bound in snowy f.s, nivali c. vinctus Hebrus, Hor.
      2. 2. pĕdĭca (only for the feet): to confine the feet in f.s, pedes pedicis coarctare, Apul.: v. snare.
      3. 3. vincŭlum (most gen. term): v. chain, imprisonment.
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• fetter (v.):
    1. I. Lit., to put in fetters: alicui compedes impingere, injicere: v. fetter (subs.).
    2. II. Fig., to hinder:
      1. 1. impĕdio, 4: to be f.'d in the use of one's rights, impediri in suo jure, Caes. B. G. 1, 36: v. to hinder, hamper.
      2. 2. tĕneo, ui, ntum, 2 (to hold, as it were entrapped): you are f.'d on every side (of Catiline), teneris undique, Cic.: stronger still is contineo: v. to confine.
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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• FETTER
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  • v. compedes indere alicui: pedica coartare (Apul.): pedica capere (equum, Liv.). To be fettered, compedibus astrictum esse: ☞ compedire prae- and post-classical, Varr., ap. Non., Cat.; servi compediti.
  • IMPROPR., compede tenere aliquem; pedicis alicujus rei alligare aliquem (Apul.). Vid: To HAMPER.
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  • s. compes (shackle, for the lower part of the thigh, to prevent escape, mostly made of wood, but also of iron; tropically like vinculum = means of coercion; Vid: Cic., Tusc., 1, 31, 75, vincula and compedes corporis, i. e., the body holding the soul in fetters; and IMPROP.; e.g., grata compede juvenem tenere): pedica (an iron for fettering the feet; e.g., of a slave, an ox, a horse on the pasture, etc.). To put anybody in fetters, alicui compedes indere: the mind when freed from the fetters of the body, animus corpore solutus. If fetter = chain, Vid: FEUD,
  • Feod [Vid: FEE].
  • Deadly quarrel, etc., inimicitiae, etc. Vid: QUARREL.