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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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• forbear: i. e., to refrain from doing something:
      1. 1. parco, pĕperci and parsi, parcĭtum and parsum, 3 (with dat.; less freq. with infin.): to f. lamentations, p. lamentis, Liv. 6, 3: f., if you please, to boast of fidelity and the rights of alliance, parce, sis, fidem ac jura societatis jactare, Liv. 34, 32, extr.: Virg.: Hor.
      2. 2. mitto, mīsi, ssum, 3 (esp. in imperat., = away with: mostly poet.): f. fond hopes, mitte spes leves, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 8: sometimes with infin.: f. to speak ill, mitte male loqui, Ter. And. 5, 3, 2: Hor.
      3. 3. sŭpersĕdeo, sēdi, ssum, 2 (to dispense with, q. v.: with abl.; less freq. with infin.): I should have forborne to speak before you, supersedissem loqui apud vos, Liv. 21, 40, init.
      4. 4. fŭgio, fūgi, fŭgĭtum, 3 (like mitto: v. supr.): f. to enquire what is to be on the morrow, quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere, Hor. Od. 1, 9, 13: Lucr.
      5. 5. tempĕro, 1: v. TO REFRAIN FROM.
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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• FORBEAR
  • TRANS. and INTRANS.
  • To cease from anything, desist, desinere aliquid, or with infinitive (to desist from anything, opposed to coepisse): desistere aliqua re, ab or de aliqua re, or with infinitive: absistere aliqua re, or with infinitive (to leave off; absistere not in Cic., according to Görenz, Cic., Legg., 1, 13, 39): mittere, with infinitive (to give over, to leave off; e.g., requesting or begging, mitto orare; also, desisto rogare; absisto petere). Sometimes parcere (as, parce, sis, fidem ac jura belli jactare, Liv.). [Vid: To CEASE.]
  • To avoid, Vid: Reason teaches us what to do and what to forbear, ratio docet, quid faciendum fugiendumque sit.
  • To abstain from, abstinere or se abstinere (a) re: se continere a re (to keep back from anything): temperare sibi, quominus etc.: I cannot forbear, temperare mihi non possum, quominus etc.; sibi temperare or se continere non posse, quin; a se impetrare non posse, quin, etc.: to forbear shedding tears, lacrimas tenere; temperare a lacrimis (Verg., Aen., 2, 8; in Liv., 30, 20, temperare, lacrimis = to moderate one’s tears).
  • To pause, Vid:
  • Forbearing, indulgens: patiens: mitis. To be forbear toward anybody, indulgentia tractare or indulgenter habere aliquem: to be too forbearing, nimis or nimium indulgere alicui.