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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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• scrape (subs.): perplexity, difficulty: angustiae, arum: to get into a very great s., in summas a. adduci, Cic. Quint. 5, 19. Also expr. by haerere, in salebra esse, etc.: v. to gravel.
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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• SCRAPE
1.
  • v. To rub the surface of anything by an edge, scabere (from κάβω, to rub, to scratch): radere (to scrape with a tool, in order to remove any extraneous matter): fricare (to rub, in order to make smooth): abradere (to scrape off): deradere (to make a smooth surface by scraping): subradere (to scrape from below): circumradere (all around).
  • To clean by rubbing [Vid: To CLEAN].
  • To act on the surface with a grating noise [Vid: To GRATE].
  • To collect by penurious diligence, corradere; e.g., some money; converrere (to sweep together, then to collect, bring together with a great deal of trouble; e.g., hereditates omnium, Cic., Off. 3, 19, extr.).
  • To play badly (on the fiddle), *strepere fidibus; chordas misere radere (Bau.).
  • To make a noise with one’s feet, (pedibus) strepitum edere; pedibus terram radere (of birds).
  • PHR. To scrape acquaintance, insinuare se alicui or insinuare alicui; insinuare se in familiaritatem alicujus.
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  • s. By circumlocution with the verbs in To SCRAPE.
  • A perplexity, angustiae: to get anybody into a scrape, in angustias adducere: in angustum compellere. To get (one’s self) into a scrape, in angustias adduci; in angustum venire: to be in a scrape, in angustiis esse or haerere; angustius se habere. To get the money-lenders out of a scrape, ex obsidione foeneratores eximere (Cic., Fam., 5, 6, 5, Cortte).
  • A bow, Vid.