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

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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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• overseer:
      1. 1. cūrātor (he who takes charge of: gen. term): o. of the Flaminian highway, c. viae Flaminiae, Cic. Att. 1, 1: o. for the repairing of the walls, c. muris reficiendis, id. Opt. Gen. 7, 19.
      2. 2. praeses, ĭdis (esp. the o. or governor of a province): Suet. Aug. 23: Dig.
      3. 3. custos, ōdis, c.: v. keeper. To be o. of, praeesse, praepositum esse alicui rei: v. head (VII., Phr.).
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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custos, curator (one that looks over, and takes care of anything): praeses, praefectus (one set over a thing): exactor (one that sees that anything is carefully made or done): magister, rector (a teacher, tutor): praefectus moribus, censor (inspector of public morals): superjumentarius (of the drivers of beasts of burden): aedituus (of a temple): the overseer of the roads, curator viarum: the overseer of public buildings and the police, aedilis (at Rome): overseer of the works, in building, exactor operis: to set an overseer over anything, custodem imponere alicui rei, rarely in re (over anyone): custodem apponere or imponere alicui (☞ never in aliquo; Vid: Bremi, Nep., Cim., 4, 1): to make one overseer over anything, constituere, praeficere aliquem curatorem alicui rei; also simply praeficere, praeponere aliquem alicui rei.