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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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• hindrance:
      1. 1. impĕdīmentum (of whatever impedes action): esp. in phr., to be a h. to any one in doing anything, alicui [magno] esse imp. ad aliquam rem, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: Cic. R. Am. 51, 149: to cause delay and a h. to anything, moram atque imp. alicui rei inferre, Cic. Inv. 1, 9, 12: to operate as a h., esse loco impedimenti, Caes. B. C. 3, 17.
      2. 2. impĕdītio (the act of hindering or impeding: v. rare): Cic. Div. 1, 51, init.
      3. 3. expr. by mŏra (strictly delay; but also used of what causes delay): there is no h. in the way of my marrying her, nec m. ulla est quin eam uxorem ducam, Ter. Andr. 5, 6, 7: cf. Cic. Cat. 1, 4, 9, paullulum tibi esse morae, quod ego viverem. Esp. in phr., in mora esse, to be a cause of delay or h., Ter. Andr. 2, 5, 13: Pl.
      4. 4. very oft. expr. by obsto, offĭcio, impĕdio: what h.s lie in our way, quanta nobis obstant, officiunt: v. to hinder.
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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• HINDRANCE
impedimentum (☞ not obstaculum): avocatio a re (to an occupation, to business): mora (delay, cause of delay). To be a hindrance, impedimenti loco esse: to be a hindrance to a person or thing, impedimento esse alicui or alicui rei, ad aliquid (☞ never in aliqua re); impedire aliquem or aliquid, in anything, ab aliqua re, or aliqua re only (☞ never in aliqua re); impedimentum afferre, in or to anything, alicui rei faciendae (of persons and things); obesse alicui and alicui rei (to be against a person or thing; opposed to prodesse) [☞ to HINDER]: it was a great hindrance to the Gauls in battle, that, etc., Gallis magno ad pugnam erat impedimento, quod, etc.: I will be no hindrance, nulla in me or per me est mora; nihil in me est mora: I will be no hindrance to his resigning the decemvirate, non moror, quominus abeat a decemviratu.