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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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• hired (part. adj.):
      1. 1. conductus (actually taken into pay): h. gangs of roughs, operae c., Cic. Sext. 17, init.: a h. abode, c. lar, Mart. 11, 82. Join: conductus et redemptus, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 5.
      2. 2. conducticius (to be had for hire, whether actually hired or not): the h. service of free labourers, c. liberorum operae, Varr. R. R. 1, 17 (where the kind of labour is to be described): a h. house (one of the class not occupied by their owners), domus c., Porc. in Suet. Ter.
      3. 3. mercēnārius (esp. with reference to something not usually or not lawfully trafficked in): v. mercenary, hireling. Oft. in masc. as subst. = a h. servant, opp. to a slave: to treat slaves as h. servants, servis uti ut mercenariis, Cic. Off. 1, 13, 41.
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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conducticius (of persons and thing): mercenarius (of persons): (mercede) conductus: (☞ conducticius and mercenarius are used in respect of the class to which the person or thing hired belongs; (mercede) conductus, in respect of the person or thing hired, considered individually as to its state: thus domus conducticia is a house belonging to the class of those which are let on hire, as opposed to those which are private property (see Porc., ap. Suet., vit. Terent., 1, extr.); domus (mercede) conducta is a house which I have hired, in which I live as tenant: miles conducticius or mercenarius is a soldier belonging to the class of those who serve for pay; miles mercede conductus is one whom I have taken into pay.