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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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• gird:
      1. 1. cingo, nxi, netum, 3: often as refl. pass.: he g.s himself with a Spanish sword, Hispano cingitur gladio, Liv. 7, 10, ad med. (in Virg. with acc.) inutile cingitur ferrum, Aen. 2, 511. Fig.: the heavens were girt with clouds, cinxerunt aethera nimbi, Virg.: v. to surround.
      2. 2. incingo, 3 (same constr. as simple verb. poet.): to g. oneself with a girdle, incingi zonâ, Ov. Her. 9, 66: to g. oneself with serpents, se serpentibus incingere. Cat. 64, 258.
      3. 3. accingo, 3 (same constr.: chiefly poet., except in fig. sense): to g. on a sword, ensem ac. lateri, Virg. Aen. 11, 489: he g.s on his trusty sword, fido accingitur ense, Virg. Aen. 7, 640. Fig. = to set vigorously to work, to prepare: all g. themselves to the task, ac. (sese) omnes operi, Virg. Aen. 2, 235: Liv. (who has the refl. pass., 2, 12, med., in hoc discrimen accingere, prepare thyself): Tac.
      4. 4. praecingo, 3 (strictly, to g. in front, as a napkin: cf. Vulg. Joh. xiii. 4): to g. oneself with a sword, ense praecingi, Ov. Tr. 2, 271: waiters properly g.'d, recte praecincti pueri, Hor.
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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• GIRD
cingere (general term, zona, gladio, etc.): incingere (mostly poetical, incingi zona, Ov.): succingere (gird up). To gird one’s self, cingi, or succingi, or accingi (e.g., with a sword, gladio or ferro): to gird one’s self up (i. e., prepare) for anything, accingi ad aliquid: high-girt, alte cinctus (Hor., Sat., 2, 8, 10; for which alticinctus, Phaedrus, 2, 5, 11): altius praecinctus (Hor., Sat., 2, 5, 6; Petronius, 19, 4): GIRD on a sword, succingere aliquem gladio (another); gladio se cingere; gladio accingi (one’s self).