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

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Contents (4 entries · 14 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (3)
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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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• bow (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To bend: flecto, inclīno: to incline, q. v.
    2. II. To lower by bending, esp. in token of respect:
      1. 1. dēmitto, mīsi, missum, 3: to b. one's head (in order to pass under an archway), caput d., Cic.: of drooping flowers, Ov. (comp. the phr. fasces demittere, to lower the fasces in token of submission, Cic.).
      2. 2. submitto, 3: b.ing their heads they entered the low gateway, summisso humiles intrarunt vertice postes, Ov.: to b. as do girls, curtsey, *genua flexa s. (Georg.).
      3. 3. inclīno, 1: v. to bend.
    3. III. To depress, subdue (q. v.): submitto, 3: to b. one's spirits to misfortunes, ad calamitates animos s., Liv.: to b. minds to love, animos amori s., Virg.: v. to subject.
  2. B. Intrans.: To lower the head or incline the person: esp. in token of respect or submission: Phr.: I b. to your potent wisdom (lit. yield the hands to be bound, in token of defeat), efficaci do manus sapientiae, Hor.: Caes.: to take off one's hat and b. to any one, caput revelare et salutare acclinem, Arnob. 7, p. 221: (but this does not appear to have been a usual mode of respectful salutation, not being mentioned by Cic. where we might have expected to find it, de Sen. 18, 63: q. v.): to b. to any one, aliquem summisso capite salutare: v. sup. II. (1, 2).
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• bow (verb. subs.): Phr.: to enter a house with a b., domum summisso capite (honoris causa) intrare: to make a b. to any one: v. to bow (fin.). But generally salutatio may be used as the Latin correlative to the Eng. word: v. salutation.
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• bow (subs.):
    1. I. An instrument for discharging arrows:
      1. 1. arcus, ūs: to bend a b. against any one, a. in aliquem intendere, Cic.; tendere, Hor.; dirigere, Pers.; lunare, Ov.: a bent b., a. adductus, Virg.: an unbent b., a. remissus, Hor. Phr.: a manufactory of b.s, fabrica arcuaria, Veg.: a b.-maker, arcuarius, Dig.
      2. 2. cornu, n. (poet.: lit. a horn): to discharge arrows from a Parthian b., Partho torquere c. spicula, Virg.: Ov. Prov.: to have two strings to your b., duplici spe utier, i. e. uti, Ter. Phor. 4, 2, 13.
    2. II. Anything shaped like a bow, or curved: arcus: a harbour curved to a b., portus curvatus in arcum, Virg.: Ov.. v. arch.
    3. III. A musician's b.: (not plectrum, which was a small quill or stick used for striking the strings of a lyre): arcus, with some such word as fidium or *violinarius understood: v. fiddle-stick.
    4. IV. A tie of ribbon, etc.: *fasciolae plexus s. nexus. (or perhaps nodus, cf. Virg. Ecl. 8, 77).
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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1. to bend, flectere, inflectere; curvare, incurvare. Bowed, infiexus, incurvus: backward, recurvatus, recurvus, repandus. INTR., flecti, curvari, incurvescere. To bow, bow the head, se demittere, caput demittere: to bow to anybody (as a mode of salutation), acclinis saluto aliquem (Arnobius); salutare aliquem: down to the ground, aliquem adoro, veneror. To bow the knee, genua flectere (generally): genua (flexa) submittere (out of respect; to one, alicui). They bow down under the weight, incurvantnr, ceduntque ponderi. To bow to one (figuratively), submittere se alicui; se alicujus potestati permittere. Man must bow to the will of God, hominum vita jussis divinae legis obtemperat. To bow to the ground (crush, depress), frangere, deprimere, opprimere: one’s pride, superbiam alicujus retundere.
2. s. corporis inclinatio: to make a bow to anybody, acclinis saluto aliquem (Arnobius), or only aliquem salutare.
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  • s. arcus. Bow-string, nervus. A cross-bow, arcuballista, manuballista. A bowman, sagittarius: cross-bow man, arcuballistarius, manuballistarius. A maker of bows, arcuarius. Within bow-shot, intra teli jactum or conjectum: out of, extra, etc. To bend a bow, arcum intendere, adducere. To get his food by his bow, expedire alimenta arcu. A rainbow, pluvius arcus; also from context, arcus. A bow-window, fenestra arcuata. Bow-legged, varus, valgus.
  • Of a stringed instrument, plectrum.