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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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• quell: (orig. to kill; and Spenser has quell, v. n. = die): v. to crush: to subdue: to bring down:
      1. 1. prĕmo, pressi, pressum, 3, and compounds: obj. a power: cf. pr. arma Latini, Virg. Aen. 11, 402: obj. a person: pr. (aliquem) voce, vultu, Tac. A. 3, 67. Comp.: comprĭmo: to q. disturbances, motus compr., Liv. 1, 60: a rebellion, seditionem, id. 2, 23: et tribunicios furores compr., Cic. Mur. 11: conatum atque audaciam furentis hominis, id. Phil. 10, 5, 11: with abl. of the means: cf. voce manuque murmura compressit, Ov. M. 1, 206: Join: compr. et restinguo, consider, with what words you are to q. or quench his burning ambition, meditare, quibus verbis incensam illius cupiditatem comprimas atque restinguas, Cic. Pis. 25, 59. Pass. to be quelled: Join: comprimi et quiescere: cf. Virg. G. 4, 86-7 (mock-heroic, of bees)-- Hi motus animorum atque haec certamina tanta Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescent: opprĭmo: Join: opprimo et conficio: what avails Valour or strength, though matchless, quelled with pain, Which all subdues? (Milton) cf. omnibus oppressum corpus et confectum doloribus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 8, 23: v. to put down.
      2. 2. sēdo, 1: seditionem, Cic. Rep. 1, 38: tumultum, Caes. B. C. 3, 18: cf. to allay: to appease.
      3. 3. dŏmo, ŭi, ĭtum, 1: v. to subdue: to control: and subs. dŏmĭtor, m.: the mind that can q. and bridle unbounded power, infinitae potestatis domitor ac frenator animus, Plin. Pan. 55: and domitrix, icis, f. cf. omnium domitrix (ferrum), Plin. 36, 16, 25: the club that quelled wild beasts, domitrix ferarum clava (Herculis), Ov. H. 9, 117.
      4. 4. vinco, vīci, victum, 3: her shame was quelled by love, victus amore pudor, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 29: also, sŭbĭgo, 3: v. to conquer, to subdue.
      5. 5. dēbello, 1: to spare the suppliants and to q. the proud, parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos, Virg. Aen. 6, 854: to q. an enemy by a shout, (hostem) clamore debell., Tac. Agr. 34.
      6. 6. frango, frēgi, fractum, 3: to q. a person's pride (Dryden), spiritum ejus fr.: cf. quorum se vim ac spiritus fregisse, Liv. 26, 24.
      7. 7. submitto: to q. rage, s. furorem, Virg. Aen. 12, 832: v. to put down. Phr.: your pride is quelled, cecidit ille spiritus tuus, Prop. 2, 3, 2.
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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• QUELL
comprimere: sedare. Vid: also, QUASH, QUENCH.
GRG Georges (1)
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Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (8th ed., 1913/1918). Digitized data accessed from latin-dict.github.io and is in the public domain.