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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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• tackle, tackling (subs.):
      1. 1. armāmenta, ōrum, n. pl. (all the appliances and fittings necessary for a vessel): the names of the different parts of the t., vocabula armamentorum, Caes. B. C. 1, 58: to provide with t., armamentis instruere, ib. 1, 36: since all the hope of the Gallic vessels lay in their sails and t., cum omnis Gallicis navibus spes in velis armamentisque consisteret, id. B. G. 3, 14: to lower the t., a. demere (opp. to tollere), Liv. 21, 49: demittere, Sen. Ben. 6, 15., 6: with the t. in disorder, fusis a., Suet. Aug. 17, ad med.: to dismantle a ship of her t., navem armamentis spoliare (said of a storm), Liv. 30, 39: to arrange and adjust the t., a. complicare et componere, Pl. Merc. 1, 2, 83.
        Phr
        .: ships equipped with t., armatae naves, Caes. B. G. 3, 13: instructae ornataeque naves, Cic. Verr. 5, 51, 133.
      2. 2. arma, orum, n. pl. (rare): ships thoroughly provided with every kind of t., naves omni genere armorum ornatissimae, Caes. B. G. 3, 14.
      3. 3. rŭdentes, um, m. pl. (ropes, rigging): the creaking of the t., stridor rudentum, Virg. Aen. 1, 87: the south-east wind tears the t. to bits, r. differt Eurus, Hor. Epod. 10, 5. Phr.: fishing-t., linum et hami, Ov. Met. 3, 586: rete atque hami, Pl. Rud. 4, 3, 56.
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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• TACKLING
s. armamenta, -orum, neuter plur., (☞ navalia, substantive instrumenta, is found in this sense only in Verg., Aen., 11, 329: in Liv., 45, 23, and Plin., 16, 11, 31, it is = naves). To destroy the tackling of a ship, navem armamentis spoliare: navis armamenta fundere (Suet.): navem exarmare (said of a storm).