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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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• wall (subs.):
      1. 1. mūrus (the most gen. word; in sing. of any line of wall, whether across country, round a town, or of the outer wall of a house: in plur. of city walls): Caesar builds a wall across from L. Leman to Mt. Jura, Caesar perducit murum a lacu Lemano ad montem Juram, Caes. B. G. 1, 8: the w. of a town, murus oppidi, id. B. G. 7, 46: about the house w. I have given orders to Philotimus, de muro imperavi Philotimo, Cic. Att. 2, 4, 7: buildings not with common partition w.s, but each with its own outer w., aedificia non communione parietum sed propriis quaeque muris, Tac. A. 15, 43: the w.s of a city, muri urbis, Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 94. Fig.: be this your brazen w., hic murus aeneus esto, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 60: laws the bulwarks and w.s of quietness, leges propugnacula murique tranquillitatis, Cic. Pis. 4, 9.
      2. 2. moenia, ium (w.s of a town, ramparts): most lofty w.s, altissima moenia, Caes. B. C. 3, 80: to fence with w.s, urbem m. sepire, Cic. Sest. 42, 91. Fig.: w.s (sides) of a ship, moenia navis, Ov. M. 11, 532: w.s of the world, moenia mundi, Lucr. 1, 73.
      3. 3. mācĕria (a low w. of mud, rough stones, or the like; such as bound the fields in North Wales or Yorkshire): a w. without mortar, of rough stones and flint, m. sine calce ex caementis et silice, Cato, R. R. 15: a w. in a garden, m. in horto, Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 10: they had built before them a w. six feet high, maceriam in altitudinem sex pedum praeduxerant, Caes. B. G. 7, 69.
      4. 4. păries, ĕtis, m. (partition w. between rooms or houses in the same row): I broke through the w. in that room, perfodivi parietem in eo conclavi, Pl. Mil. 2, 1, 64: 'tis your risk when your neighbour's w. is aflame, tua res agitur paries quum proximus ardet, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84: the w.s of a tower, parietes turris, Caes. B. C. 2, 9. Phr.: fallen-down w.s, parietinae, Cic. Tusc. 3, 22, 53: to build a w., murum (moenia, etc.) aedificare, Ov. M. 11, 204: ducere, perducere (expressing esp. the length of w.): Cic.: Caes.: exstruere (to raise): Cic.: Tac.: Caes.: instruere (to put in order the materials): Caes.: Tac.: v. to build: to pull down a w., m. destruere, Cic.: Virg.: diruere, Ter.: Cic.: to surround a city with w.s, moenibus urbem cingere, Ov. M. 4, 58: moenia urbi circumdare, moenibus urbem circumdare (both constructions frequent): Liv.: Caes.: Tac.: to batter w.s with a ram, quatere m. ariete, Liv. 21, ad fin.: ferire, Sall. J. 76: to make a breach in w.s, perfringere muros, Tac. H. 3, 20: through the breach in the w. they burst in, per apertum ruina iter perruperunt, Liv. 31, 46, ad fin.: to mount w.s, in moenia egredi, Tac. H. 4, 29. Fig.: to go to the w., cedere, etc.: v. to yield: the weakest must go to the w., *cedat necesse est validiori debilis.
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• wall (v.): mūnio, 4: to wall (fortify) a place, munire locum, Caes. B. G. 2, 29: to w. in a town, urbem muro sepire, Cic.: *claudere, concludere: to w. off, *muro dividere: to wall up, *saxis (lateribus, etc.) concludere.
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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• WALL
1. s. murus (any wall, or single part of a wall; in the plur., like our “walls,” it denotes a wall of great circumference; and figuratively, both sing. and plur., it is = a defence, bulwark): moenia (walls round a town; hence, also, other buildings which furnish protection): maceria (the proper word of fences made of weaker materials, as mud, brush-wood, etc., about gardens, country-houses, vineyards, woods, etc): paries (a partition wall in a house or other large building): propugnacula, -orum, nominative plur. (bulwarks); propugnacula murique (also, figuratively = protection): old, ruinous walls, parietinae: a stone wall, murus lapideus: a brick wall, murus latericius: to build a wall, murum exstruere, aedificare; parietem ducere: to lay the foundation of a wall, murum instruere (Vid: commentators on Nep., Them., 6, 4): to surround a town with walls, urbem moenibus cingere; urbem moenibus circumdare, or circumdare urbi moenia: a breach in a wall, munimentorum ruinae; jacentis muri ruinae: to make a breach in a wall, tormentis et arietum pulsu muros quatere; muros arietibus quatere or ferire; tormentis machinisque perfringere ac subruere muros; muri partem ariete incusso subruere: there was already a considerable breach in the walls, muri pars, ariete incusso subruta, multis jam locis prociderat: to enter a town through a breach in the wall, per apertum ruina iter in urbem invadere; per ruinas jacentis muri in urbem transcendere: to repair a breach in the walls (in haste), muros quassos raptim obstructis saxis reficere.
2. v. murum exstruere, aedificare: parietem ducere (to build a wall): murum excitare, educere (to build to a great height, as a tower, etc.). To wall six feet high, murum in altitudinem sex pedum perducere: to wall round, muro cingere, circumdare: to wall up, saxis condudere. ☞ Saxis obstruere is = block up, barricade.
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.
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Wall, vallum (der eigentliche Wall. verbunden und befestigt durch Palisaden, Pfähle, Flechtwerk).
agger (die aufgefüllte Erde, Steine u. Schutt).
einen W. aufwerfen, errichten, aggerem iacĕre od. exstruere; vallum ducere: mit W. und Graben einschließen, um etwas W. und Graben aufwerfen, vallo et fossā cingere od. circumdare od. saepire; vallo fossāque munire (mit W. und Graben befestigen).