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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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• strip, strip off (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. Lit.: to deprive of a covering:
      1. 1. spŏlio, 1: the consuls order the man to be s.'d (for punishment), consules spoliari hominem jubent, Liv. 2, 55, med.: to s. the body of a slain enemy, corpus caesi hostis s., Liv. 7, 26, ad med. Also with abl.: to s. the fallen of his clothes, jacentem veste s., Nep. Thras. 2, fin.: to s. off the pods of pulse, folliculos leguminum s., Petr. 135, med.
      2. 2. nūdo, 1: he orders the man to be s.'d (for punishment), hominem nudari jubet, Cic. Verr. 5, 62, 161. Also with abl.: a weapon s.'d of its sheath, telum nudatum vagina, Nep. Dat. 11, ad fin.
      3. 3. dēnūdo: to s. matrons, matresfamilias d., Suet. Aug. 69.
      4. 4. exuo, ui, ūtum, 3: the snake s.s off his skin in the thorns, serpens e. in spinis vestem, Lucr. 4, 59: he s.s (or bares) his arms, lacertos e., Virg. Aen. 5, 423: how many fingers does that goblet s., quot digitos e. iste calix, Mart. 14, 109. Also with abl.: to s. one of clothes, aliquem veste e., Suet. Ner. 32, ad fin.
      5. 5. dērĭpio, rĭpui, reptum, 3: a hide s.'d from a lion, pellis derepta leoni, Ov. M. 3, 52: v. to flay.
      6. 6. dētrăho, xi, ctum, 3: to s. off clothes, vestem d., based on Cic. Brut. 75, 262. Prov.: you bid me s. the naked, nudo detrahere vestimenta me jubes, Pl. As. 1, 1, 79: v. also to draw off (I.).
      7. 7. pōno, dēpōno: v. to put off (I.).
      8. 8. vĭduo, 1 (poet.: lit. to bereave): the mountain-ashes are being s.'d of their leaves, viduantur orni foliis, Hor. Od. 2, 9, 8: cf. viduata arva pruinis, Virg. G. 4, 518. Cf. dēcŭtio: v. to shake off.
      9. 9. stringo, inxi, ictum, 3: to s. off leaves from trees, s. folia ex arboribus, based on Caes. B. C. 3, 58: cf. s. frondes, Virg. E. 9, 61: s. arbores, Col. 6, 3, 7. Comp. dēstringo: to s. off the myrtle berry, d. baccam myrti, Col. 12, 38, 7: d. frondem, Quint. 12, 6, 2: d. ramos, Lucan 4, 317.
      10. 10. dēcortĭco (to s. the bark off): v. to peel (I.).
      11. 11. vello, vulsi, vulsum, 3 (to s. off the feathers of birds): v. to pluck (II.).
    2. II. Fig.: to deprive of:
      1. 1. spŏlio, 1 (usu. with acc. of person or thing robbed and abl. of thing taken): v. to rob. Also in poet. with acc. instead of abl.: winter s.'d of its locks, hiems spoliata capillos, Ov. M. 15, 243. Comps. dēspŏlio, exspŏlio (v. to despoil, rob).
      2. 2. nūdo, 1 (like preced. in constr.): the little crow s.'d of its borrowed plumes, cornicula furtivis nudata coloribus, Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 20: the tribunes' official power having been s.'d of all, nudata omnibus rebus tribunitia potestate, Caes. B. C. 1, 7, ad med.: cf. Suet. Caes. 41, init.: to s. lands by laying waste, agros n. populando, Liv. 44, 27, ad med. (v. to plunder, pillage, devastate). Cf. compound dēnūdo: Roman citizens having been s.'d of their property, civibus Romanis denudatis, Cic. Fam. 12, 15, 1.
      3. 3. exuo, ui, ūtum, 3 (same constr. as preced.): to s. an enemy of his arms, e. hostem armis, Liv. 34, 28, ad fin.: to s. one of his ancestral goods, aliquem avitis bonis e., Tac. A. 14, 31, med.: cf. se agro paterno avitoque e., Liv. 2, 23, ad med.
      4. 4. expello: v. to expel.
      5. 5. ēverto, ti, sum (lit. to turn out): to s. a ward of his father's fortunes, e. pupillum fortunis patriis, Cic. Verr. 1, 51, 135. Miscell.: s.'d of the disguises of hypocrisy, evolutus integumentis dissimulationis nudatusque, id. de Or. 2, 86, 350: to s. off all the ornament of speech, omnem ornatum orationis detrahere, based on id. Brut. 75, 262.
  2. B. Intrans.: to undress oneself: may be expr. by, ponere s. deponere vestem, vestītum, vestīmenta (v. to put off, I.): cf. de tenero velamina corpore ponit, Ov. M. 4, 345: perh. too *se exuere vestibus: vestes sibi detrahere (Georg.). [N.B.--Corpus nudare (R. and A.), Enn. in Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, 70, is used in a bad sense of allowing one's nakedness to be seen in public.] Note.--Stripped may often be expr. lit. and fig. by, nudus (v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v.).