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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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• instruct:
    1. I. To teach:
      1. 1. ērŭdio, 4 (to educate): to i. any one in civil law, e. aliquem in jure civili., Cic. de Or. 1, 59, extr.: also foll. by ad and acc., erudire ad majorum instituta, Cic. Verr 3, 59, 161. Join: erudire atque docere (absol.), Cic. Off. 1, 44, 156; instituere atque e., Cic. Verr l. c.
      2. 2. instĭtuo, i, ūtum, 3 (to train, train up, q. v.) to i. one quite uninformed in the art of speaking, aliquem omnino rudem ad dicendum ins., Cic. de Or. 2, 39, init.: cf. supr. (2).
      3. 3. dŏceo, ēdŏceo, 2: v. to teach.
      4. 4. praecĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (esp. in practical matters, as morals; also generally, in practice, as opp. to theory: with dat. or absol.): to teach, admonish, i., docere, monere, pr., Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 5: to i. (give instructions) in eloquence, de eloquentia pr., Cic. de Or. 2, 11, extr.: cf. infr. (II.). See also to educate. (N.B.--Not instruo in this sense.)
    2. II. To give directions authoritatively:
      1. 1. mando, 1 (with dat. and ut, ne): he i.s that officer to proceed to ..., huic mandat [ut] ... adeat, Caes. B. G. 3, 11 (the ut is not unfreq. omitted, as here): with ne, to instruct ... not, Caes. B. C. 2, 13.
      2. 2. praecĭpio, 3 (same constr.): they i.'d him as to what they wished done, huic quid fieri vellent praeceperunt, Nep. Paus. 4: Sall.: Hirt.
      3. 3. praescrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (whether by letter or otherwise same constr.): for so I have i.'d them to ..., sic enim praescripsimus iis, ut ..., Cic. Fam. 13, 26: though he had been i.'d not to ..., quum ei praescriptum esset, ne ..., Cic. Att. 16, 3, fin.