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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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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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• labour (subs.):
    1. I. Exertion, esp. of a toilsome kind:
      1. 1. lăbor, ōris, m.: cf. Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 35, where labor is defined as, functio ... gravioris operis et muneris: to spend l. on anything, l. in aliquam rem insumere, Cic. Inv. 2, 38, 113: what l. I have gone through, quantum laboris exhauserim, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 1: to lighten any one's l., l. alicui levare, Cic. Or. 34, 120. Join: sudor et labor, Cic. Font. 1, 2.
      2. 2. ŏpĕra (pains, exertion: not necessarily of a toilsome kind, as labor): hired l., opera conducticia, Varr. R. R. 1, 17. Join: operam curamque (in aliqua re ponere), Cic. Off. 1, 6, 19; operam et laborem (consumere in aliqua re), id. de Or. 1, 55, 234: to lose one's l., frustra o. sumere, Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 15; insumere, Liv. 10, 18, extr.: operam perdere, Cic. Mar. 10, 23. (Opera is that which results in or is devoted to opus.)
      3. 3. mōles, is, f. (lit. mass; hence by meton., toil, labour: esp. poet.): such l. did it require, tantae m. erat, Virg. Aen. 1, 33: so Liv. 25, 11, ad fin., transveham naves haud magna mole, i. e. without any great labour or difficulty. Phr.: to lose one's l., acta or actum agere, Cic. Am. 22, 85: Ter. Ph. 2, 3, 72: cf. supr. 2.
    2. II. Work done:
      1. 1. ŏpus, ĕris, n.: v. work.
      2. 2. lăbor: to undertake great l.s, l. magnos excipere, Cic. Br. 69, 243: an Herculean l., Herculis quidam labor, Cic. Ac. 2, 34, 108. The l.s of Hercules may also be described as facinora, Forcell.: v. achievement. (Labor is more intense than opus: cf. Virg. Aen. 6, 129, hoc opus, hic labor est.)
    3. III. In childbirth:
      1. 1. partus, ūs (childbirth): Diana is invoked for women in l., Diana adhibetur ad partus, Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 69.
      2. 2. nīsus (nixus), ūs (more precisely): Ov. F. 5, 171. Phr.: to be in l., parturire: Hor. A. P. 139 (parturiunt montes): Phaedr.: l. pains, dolores (sc. ex utero), Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 2: young women in l., laborantes utero puellae, Hor. Od. 3, 22, 2.
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• labour (v.):
    1. I. To work, toil:
      1. 1. lăbōro, 1 (more freq. in other senses, as to be fatigued, in pain, ill, etc.): to sow, spend, l. for oneself, sibi serere, impendere, l., Cic. Verr. 3, 52, 121: Quint. So comp. ēlăbōro, 1 (to l. hard: esp. of intellectual labour): Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 295. (Allaboro., to l. at or in addition, Hor. only.)
      2. 2. expr. by ŏpus, lăbor., with a verb: e. g. to l., opus facere (of husbandry), Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 21: Cic. (v. to work): to l. incessantly, nullum ne minimum quidem tempus ad laborem intermittere, cf. Caes. B. G. 5, 11.
    2. II. To strive hard: ēnītor, contendo: v. to strive.
    3. III. To toil, be in distress: lăbōro, 1 (perh. the most freq. sense of the verb): Caes.: Cic.: v. to suffer.