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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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• gate:
      1. 1. porta (esp. of a city or town: cf. Ov. Am. 1, 9, 20, hic [miles] portas frangit, at ille [amans] fores): before the g. of the town, ante p. oppidi, Caes.: Cic. Also of the entrances to a camp: v. Dict. Ant. s. v. castra. Fig.: the g.s of war, p. belli, Enn. in Hor.: the g.s of Cilicia (defile leading into C.), portae Ciliciae, Plin. Dimin., portŭla, a small g., Liv.
      2. 2. jānua (of a private house): v. door. Fig.: the g. of gloomy Dis (the grave), atri j. Ditis, Virg. Aen. 6, 127; j. sepulcri, Ov.
      3. 3. ostium (an entrance of any kind, more freq. the door of a house): before the prison g., ad o. carceris, Cic. Verr. 5, 45, 118. Join: (extra) ostium limenque carceris, id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13.
      4. 4. postis, is, m. (strictly, the post of a gate, but used poet. for the gate itself: usu. pl.): he wrenches a g. from its hinges, postes a cardine vellit, Virg. Aen. 2, 480. Fig.: the iron-shod gates of war, ferratos belli p., Enn. in Hor. Less freq. in sing.: at the g. of the temple of Hercules, ad Herculis postem, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 5.
      5. 5. fŏris, is, f. (usu. of the gates of houses, of which foris strictly denotes a folding leaf: sing. rare): before the g.s (of the city) could be shut upon them, priusquam fores portarum objicerentur, Liv. 1, 14, extr.: v. door.
      6. 6. claustra, orum (poet.: strictly fastenings, barriers): guard thou her iron g.s with an eternal lock, ferrea perpetuâ c. tuere serâ, Mart. 10, 28, extr.: to leave behind the g.s of the city, c. (al. tecta) urbis relinquere, Ov. M. 4, 86.
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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• GATE
porta (gate of a city, camp, etc., whether with reference to the opening, or to the wooden frame or leaves): fores portae (the wooden gates; i. e., leaves): janua: fores (the large door of a house [janua = fores in liminibus profanarum aedium, Cic., N.D., 2, 27]; janua, as entrance; fores, as the wooden leaves that close it): valvae (are the wooden leaves [fores] of stately buildings, temples, etc.). To open the gate, portam patefacere; fores portae aperire; portae fores recludere. To shut the gate, fores portae objicere (to put it to); portam claudere (to fasten it to): to break down a gate, portam refringere; claustra portae effringere: to cut through, hew down, etc., a gate, portas excidere (☞ not exscindere): to block up a gate, portas obstruere (e.g., with turf, cespitibus): to enter by the gate, porta introire: to go out by a gate, exire per portam: to go out of a gate, pedem efferre porta: to stream out of the gate, porta effundi or se effundere: before the gate, ad portam (at it); extra portam (on the outside of it).