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

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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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• beat down:
    1. I. To strike down:
      1. 1. dējĭcio, jēci, jectum. 3: the ballista b.s down the wall, ballista d. murum, Auct. B. Hisp. Fig.: to b. any one down from his position, aliquem de statu (suo) d., Cic. (Sometimes appy. intrans. in Eng.: as, the winds b. down from the lofty mountains, venti praealtis montibus se d., Liv.)
      2. 2. sterno, strāvi, strātum, 3 (to lay flat): the walls were beaten down with the ram, muri ariete strati sunt, Liv.: the crops are beaten down to the ground, sternuntur segetes, Virg.: v. to level.
    2. II. Fig.: to cheapen in buying: aliquid ex summa (pretio) detrahere, Cic. Att. 10, 5, fin.: he wanted to b. down the price, voluit minoris emere: v. to buy.