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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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• make:
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To construct, fashion, farm:
      1. 1. făcio, fēci, factum, 3: to m. a bridge, pontem f., Caes.: to m. a vase, vasculum f., Quint. 7, 10, 9: to m. a fire of green sticks, ignem lignis viridibus f., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 17, 45. Frequent. factito, 1 (to be wont to make): Hor. (f. versus). Also comps. (1). effĭcio, 3 (indicating the result rather than the process: hence sometimes used to denote speediness of making): cf. Cic. Rep. 1, 17, where efficere sphaeram is used of the celebrated sphere of Archimedes as a triumph achieved; with ib. 14, where, in describing the actual model, sphaeram factam (not effectam) is used: having hastily made bridges, celeriter effectis pontibus, Caes. B. G. 6, 6: they made military engines by cutting off the women's hair, praesectis crinibus mulierum tormenta effecerunt, id. B. C. 3, 9. (2). confĭcio, 3 (to make completely): he had made his ring, his mantle, his shoes with his own hand, annulum, pallium, soccos se sua manu confecisse, Cic. de Or. 3, 32, 127.
      2. 2. fingo, nxi, ctum, 3 (by moulding, shaping, etc.): to m. wax figures, e cera f., Cic. Verr. 4, 13, 30: to m. verses, carmina f., Hor.: so also effingo: v. to form (I., 4); fashion (III.); mould.
    2. II. To constitute, form: effĭcio, 3: v. to form (II.).
    3. III. To yield a certain result (in arithmetic):
      1. 1. effĭcio, 3: those (funds) hardly m. up enough for the interest, ea vix in fenus quod satis sit ef., Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3: cf. Col. 5, 2 (throughout). Also simple verb, făcio: Col. 5, 1, med.
      2. 2. fĭeri, irr.: cf. Col. 5, 2, has duas summas in se multiplicato, quinquagies centena fiunt quinque millia, i. e. multiply these together, and they make, etc.
      3. 3. expr. by esse ad ... when addition is denoted; reliquum, -a esse, when subtraction is denoted: Cic. Verr. 3, 49, 116: Col. l. c.
    4. IV. To gain: Phr.: to m. money, pecuniam [maximam] facere, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, 17; so, rem facere, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 12: Hor. See also to get, gain.
    5. V. To designate to an office: creo, 1; făcio, praefĭcio, 3: v. to appoint.
    6. VI. To bring to a certain state:
      1. 1. făcio, 3: you have made the senate, which was already quite firm, firmer still, senatum, bene firmum, firmiorem fecistis, Cic. Ph. 6, 7, 18: made gods from being men, dii facti ex hominibus, id. Rep. 2, 10: Caes.: Sall.
      2. 2. reddo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3: to m. human life safer and richer, tutiorem et opulentiorem vitam hominum r., Cic. Rep. 1, 2: v. to render.
    7. VII. To represent dramatically or otherwise:
      1. 1. făcio, 3: Xenophon m.s Socrates argue that ..., X. facit Socratem disputantem ..., Cic. N. D. 1, 12, 31: he m.s the world to be built by God, mundum a Deo aedificari f., ib. 1, 8, 19.
      2. 2. indūco, 3: v. to introduce (II.).
    8. VIII. To value: Phr.: to m. of much or little account, magni, parvi, etc., facere, aestimare: v. to value.
    9. IX. To force: cōgo, etc.: v. to compel.
    10. X. Miscell. Phr.: to m. flesh, corpus facere, Cels. 7, 3, fin.: Phaedr.: to m. war, bellum facere, Caes. B. G. 3, extr.: Cic.: to m. war upon any one, bellum inferre alicui, contra aliquem, Cic. (v. war): to m. peace between citizens, pacem conciliare inter cives, Cic. Fam. 10, 27 (v. peace): to m. an island, a port (nautical phr.), insulam, portum capere, Caes. B. G. 4, 26 and 36: to m. a bed, lectum (lectulum) vestimentis sternere, cf. Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 30: to m. a to-do, moliri, ib. 2, 2, 11: to m. a matter all right and safe, rem in tuto collocare, ib. 4, 3, 11: to m. room for any one in the street, alicui (de) via decedere, Pl. Am. 3, 4, 1: Suet.: pass. decedi (impers.), to have room made for one in the street, Cic. Sen. 18, 63.
  2. B. Intrans.: in this sense usu. foll. by prep.: v. to make against, etc.