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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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• VOTE
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  • s. PROP., suffragium (of a Roman citizen in the comitia): sententia (of a senator, judge, or of the people in the comitia): punctum (PROP., a mark in the tablet of a candidate). To give one’s vote by word of mouth, sententiam dicere; in writing, sententiam scribere: vote and interest, suffragatio (Cic.): a casting vote, perhaps *suffragium or punctum decretorium: *vox decretoria: to canvass for votes, ambire; circumire (circumire stronger than ambire: Cic., Att., 14, 21, Antonium circumire veteranos, ut acta Caesaris sancirent; that is, he made in his canvassing the round from first to last: ambire would only express his canvassing, and addressing the veterans in general; Vid: Döderlein, p. 12). To take the votes (in the Senate), patres in sententiam discedere or ire jubere; (in the comitia), populum in suffragium mittere; (in judicial trials), sententiam ferre jubere: to give one’s vote, Vid: the verb.
  • Figuratively, Vid: VOICE.
2. v. sententiam ferre (to give a vote, said of a senator or a judge, or of the people in the comitia. ☞ Not, in this sense, sententiam dicere or dare, which = “to give an opinion,” “declare one’s sentiments :” said of a senator who proposes a measure or makes a motion in the Senate; whence the phrase in sententiam alicujus discedere, “to vote with anybody,” “to support his measure”): suffragium ferre (said of individuals in the comitia): in suffragium ire: suffragium inire (of the people in the comitia. ☞ Not suffragia dare, which = “to suffer to vote,” “to give the privilege of voting” = suffragium impartiri). To vote concerning, sententiam ferre de aliquo or de aliqua re (of judges): suffragium ferre de aliquo or de aliqua re (in the comitia). To vote in favor of a senator’s motion, in sententiam alicujus discedere: to vote in favor of or with, in sententiam pede (or, of several, pedibus) ire: to vote for (a candidate), suffragio suo ornare aliquem: suffragio suo adjuvare aliquem in petendis honoribus: suffragari alicui ad munus: to vote for anything, suffragari alicui rei.