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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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• idle (adj.):
    1. I. Not employed [see also idle, to be].
      1. 1. ōtiōsus: they stood as i. spectators of the calamity, spectatores o. se praebuerunt calamitatis, Cic. Off. 2, 7, extr.: I fear the money must lie i., pecuniae vereor ne otiosae jaceant, Plin. Ep. 10, 63 (62): as applied to time, otiosus denotes freedom from regular business: v. leisure (adj.)
      2. 2. văcuus: to engage the i. mind, v. tenere mentes, Virg. G. 3, 3: Cic.: v. unemployed.
      3. 3. fēriātus (keeping holiday): to let one's sword hang i., machaeram f. gestitare, Pl.: cf. Cic. N. D. 1, 37, init.
      4. 4. segnis, e (in this sense not of persons: poet.): to indulge in i. repose, s. otia ducere, Ov. Pont. 1, 5, 43: i. years (in which nothing memorable is done), s. anni, Albin
      5. 5. dēses, ĭdis (doing nothing, when there is plenty to be done: nom. sing. not found): we sit i. at home, sedemus d. domi, Liv. 3, 68, med.: v. inactive.
      6. 6. ignāvus (poet.): winter is an i. time for the farmer, hiems ign. colono, Virg. G. 1, 299.
    2. II. Averse to work: ignāvus, segnis, ĭners: v. lazy.
    3. III. Ineffectual, useless:
      1. 1. vānus: i. prayers, v. preces, Ov. M. 9, 682: Hor.: v. vain.
      2. 2. irrĭtus i. words, i. verba, Cat.: Hor.: v. fruitless.
      3. 3. ĭnānis, e: i. rumours, inania famae, Tac. Ann. 2, 76.
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• idle (v.): cesso, 1: v. preced. art. Phr.: to i. away time in banquets, in conviviis tempus terere, Liv. (but tero does not necessarily imply blame): v. to spend.
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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• IDLE
  • (1) Lazy, etc. ignavus: piger: socors: segnis: iners: deses. [SYN. under IDLENESS.] Idle in doing anything, piger ad aliquid faciendum: idle at anything, piger ad aliquid. (2) Unoccupied, otiosus: vacuus labore or negotiis: vacuus, deses. [SYN. in UNOCCUPIED.] Idle time, otium: tempus otii: tempus labore (poetically, laboris) or negotiis vacuum: tempus vacuum [Vid: LEISURE]. To be idle, ignavum, etc., esse; laboris fugientem esse: otiosum esse: otium habere: otium est alicui (free from calls of business): vacuum esse (negotiis): vacare (to have nothing to do): cessare: nihil agere (to be doing nothing): feriari: ferias agere (to be taking a holiday): to be too idle to do anything, pigrari aliquid facere (Cic.): to be very idle, inertissimae esse segnitiae: to become idle, socordiae se atque ignaviae tradere: languori se desidiaeque tradere: don’t be too idle to send me all the news, quidquid novi scribere ne pigrere (Cic.). Scipio used to say that he was never less idle than when he had nothing to do, Scipio dicere solitus est, se numquam minus otiosum esse, quam cum esset otiosus. Money that lies idle, pecunia otiosa: money lies idle, pecunia otiosa jacet: to let one’s money lie idle, pecuniam non occupare: to be an idle spectator of anything, se praebere otiosum spectatorem alicujus rei: to live an idle life, otiose vivere: vitam in otio degere (a life without occupation of business): vitam desidem degere (a life of actual laziness): to sit idle, compressis, ut aiunt, manibus sedere (Liv.): to sit at home idle, domi desidem sedere.
  • Vain, empty, cassus (e.g., vota: formido): vanus (e.g., ictus, inceptum): inanis (e.g., verba: cogitatio: contentiones): irritus (preces: labor, inceptum) [SYN. in USELESS]: supervacaneus (superfluous). To utter idle words, voces inanes fundere; mittere irritas voces (i. e., ineffectual).