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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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• ditch (subs.): fossa: to dig a d., f. fodere, Liv.; f. ducere, if the length of the d. is considered, Caes.: to clean out old d.s, veteres f. tergere, Col.: Virg. Dimin., fossŭla, a small d., Cato. (N.B. scrobs or scrobis is a trench for planting in; incile or fossa incilis, a drain: see the words.)
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• ditch (v.): fossam fŏdio, etc.: v. preced. art. Phr.: to d. damp ground, agrum humidum fossis concidere, Plin.
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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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• DITCH
1. fossa (general term): fossa incllis: incile (for water; e.g., in the field). A small ditch, fossula: a covered ditch, fossa caeca (opposed to fossa patens): to make a ditch, fossam facere, ducere (in the Silver age, fossam premere, deprimere, percutere; Vid: Burmann Quint., Decl., 3, 16, p. 72: incile ducere, Ulp.): to open or clear out ditches, incilia aperire: to make a ditch before anything, fossam praeducere; around anything, fossa cingere or circumdare aliquid.
2. v. fossam (fossas) ducere, facere.