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

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• throttle (v.):
      1. 1. strangŭlo: to t. (any one) by difficulty of breathing, fauces spiritus difficultate s., Cels. 2, 10: a swollen throat t.s the utterance, fauces tumentes strangulant vocem, Quint. 11, 3, 20: v. choke, strangle.
      2. 2. suffŏco, 1: to t. his father, s. patrem, Cic. Mur. 29, 61.
      3. 3. praefŏco, 1: to t. the passage of the breath, p. animae viam, Ov. Ib. 556.
      4. 4. expr. by a phr.: oblidere fauces, Tac. A. 5, 9: Cic.; interpremere, Pl. Rud. 3, 2, 41; elidere, Ov. M. 12, 142: to t. two snakes, elidere geminos angues, Virg. Aen. 8, 289.
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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• THROTTLE
1. s. Vid: THROAT.
2. v. alicui elidere spiritum, fauces, or collum (the proper word; although the last two occur only Ov., Met., 12, 142, and Sen., Herc., oet., 1235: to be distinguished from suffocare = to suffocate, choke; from strangulare = to strangle; and from jugulare = to cut the throat).