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

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Contents (2 entries · 7 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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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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• impose:
    1. I. Trans.: to appoint to or for:
      1. 1. impōno, pŏsui., ĭtum, 3: Caesar has i.d upon me this duty, partes mihi has Caesar imposuit, Ant. in Cic. Att. 10, 10: Cic.
      2. 2. injungo, 3: v. to enjoin.
      3. 3. stătuo, 3: v. to fix, appoint.
    2. II. To practise fraud upon:
      1. 1. impōno, pŏsui, ĭtum, 3 (with dat. of person: some such word as fraudem being perh. understood, to play off a trick upon any one: cf. Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, med., Catoni egregie imposuit Milo noster): those on whom luxury i.s under the mask of liberality, quibus luxuria specie liberalitatis imponit, Tac. H. 1, 30: Plin. (not exactly thus in best authors).
      2. 2. dēcĭpio, 3: v. to deceive. Phr.: to i. upon any one's forbearance, patientia alicujus abuti, Cic. Cat. 1, 1, init.: v. to abuse.
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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• IMPOSE
Lay upon (figuratively), imponere (the troper word; e.g. taxes, burdens, tasks, laws, names, a necessity, etc.): injungere (e.g., taxes, a burden): irrogare (e.g., multam [Vid: FINE]; poenam; also a tax, tributum, Plin.); all alicui aliquid. To impose duties on anybody, alicui officia injungere: to impose upon the states the necessity of carrying corn (into the camp), vecturas frumenti civitatibus describere (according to a written scale of the amount to be delivered by each). To impose upon anybody the necessity, etc., alicui necessitatem imponere (Cic., Phil., 4, 5) or afferre (Cic.): to impose a name, alicui nomen imponere or cognomen indere; cognomine appellare aliquem: to impose silence (on any subject), aliquid or de aliqua re tacere aliquem jubere; de aliqua re taceri velle: to impose laws upon a state, civitati leges (per vim) imponere. A fine was imposed on all the states, multa in singulas civitates imposita (Liv.).