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

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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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• TOUCH
1. s. tactio: tactus (act of touching): contagio (contact, in good or bad sense; hence also = contagion). ☞ Not contagium in classical prose.
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  • v. PROP., tangere: attingere: attrectare: contractare (to feel, handle): manus afferre alicui rei (to lay hands upon, to attack violently; e.g., alienis bonis): invadere aliquem or aliquid, irruere in aliquid (to attack): violare aliquid (to destroy). Not to touch anything (i. e., to abstain from), aliquid non tangere, or non attingere: sese abstinere re: to touch not a fraction of the booty, de praeda nec teruncium attingere.
  • Figuratively, To affect, hurt, Vid: To touch the honor or character of anybody, detrahere de fama alicujus: violare alicujus existimationem: impugnare alicujus dignitatem. TOUCH AT A PORT, *(ad) portum adire. ☞ Portum tangere (Verg., Aen.,: 4, 612) = “to arrive at, reach a port.” TOUCH UPON,
  • PROP., tangere: attingere: contingere. [Vid: BORDER.]
  • Figuratively, tangere: attingere: mentionem alicujus rei inchoare (to mention cursorily). To touch upon anything slightly, or with few words, leviter tangere: breviter or strictim attingere: breviter perstringere: paucis percurrere (in passing): leviter in transitu attingere: leviter transire et tantummodo perstringere; with very few words, or very slightly, perquam breviter perstringere atque attingere: primoribus labris gustare, et extremis, ut dicitur, digitis attingere: to touch only on the principal points, rerum summas attingere (opposed to res explicare, to go into detail; Vid: commentators on Nep., Pelop., 1, 1): to touch upon each point separately, singillatim unamquamque rem attingere.