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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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• name (subs.):
    1. I. Of persons or things:
      1. 1. nōmen, ĭnis, n. (most gen. term): the n. of that disease is avarice, ei morbo n. est avaritia, Cic. Tusc. 4, 11, 26: a young man, Thessalus by n., juvenis nomine Thessalus, Vell. 1, 3, 1. (The name given may be either in agreement with the person or thing named, or with nomen: cf. Gell. 15, 28: figurae usitatae sunt, mihi nomen est Julius, et mihi nomen est Julio: raro, mihi nomen est Julium.) To put down or give in one's n. (esp. for military service), n. dare, edere, profiteri, Liv. 2, 24 (v. to enlist): to answer to one's n., ad n. respondēre, Liv. 7, 4: Cic.: to derive a n., ex aliqua re n. invenire, Cic. Div. 2, 32, 69; reperire, ib. 1, 10, 16; capere, Caes. B. G. 1, 13; accipere, Gell. 3, 16: from a person, ab aliquo n. trahere, Cic. Ph. 4, 2, 5: to assume a n., n. adoptare, Mart. 4, 31, 9; n. arrogare, Quint. 1, prooem. § 14: a Christian n., *n. in baptismate datum, inditum, acceptum.
      2. 2. appellātio (a significant designation): to salute any one by the n. of father, salutare aliquem appellatione patris, Plin. 7, 13, 11.
      3. 3. vŏcābŭlum (that by which a class of things or persons is called; not a personal name): to call all things by their right n.s, suis vel propriis v. omnes res nominare, cf. Cic. Caec. 18, 51: to change the n.s, not the things, rebus non commutatis immutare v., id. Leg. 1, 13, 38: used of the n. of a freedwoman (Acté), Tac. A. 13, 12. Phr.: what is your n.? qui vocare? Ter. Ad. 5, 6, 3: my n. is Lyconides, Lyconides vocor, Pl. Aul. 4, 10, 49. See also to name.
    2. II. Reputation:
      1. 1. nōmen: to have a n., n. habere, Cic. Br. 69, 244 (cf. ib. 69, 238, hujus ... nomen majus fuisset): to enjoy some n. and reputation, aliquod n.que decusque gerere, Virg. Aen. 2, 89: to win an everlasting n., n. immortalitatis (better, aeternum) mereri, Sil. 13, 722: terrified by the reputation of so great a n., tanti n. famâ territus, Vell. 2, 94: to eclipse any one's n., alicujus nomini officere, Liv. prooem.: to lose its n. (of wine), n. perdere, Cato R. R. 55: cf. nec Baccho genus, aut pomis sua n. servat, Virg. G. 2, 240.
      2. 2. existĭmātio (good n.): to prefer a good n. to a kingdom, bonam ex. regno praeponere, Nep. Ages. 4: to assail or hurt any one's good n., ex. oppugnare, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; offendere, id. Planc. 2, 6; ex. lacerare, Suet. Caes. 75; ex. laedere, id. Ner. 58.
      3. 3. fāma (in good or bad sense): good n. and reputation, f. et existimatio, Cic. Quint. 15, 50 (v. fame): to take away any one's good n., de f. alicujus detrahere, Cic. Fam. 3, 8: alicujus famam laedere, ib. 3, 7. Phr.: to have a good n., bene audire: cf. id. Fin. 3, 17, 57; a bad one, male audire, ib. 5, 40, 116.
    3. III. Authority: verba, orum: esp. in phr., in my, your n., meis, tuis verbis: you will oblige me by congratulating your wife in my n., gratum mihi feceris, si uxori tuae meis v. eris gratulatus, Cic. Fam. 15, 8: in the n. of the Senate, Senatus verbis, Liv. 9, 36.
    4. IV. Name merely, without the reality: nōmen: friendship is a n., fidelity an empty n., n. amicitia, n. inane fides, Ov. A. A. 1, 740: the Campanians brought the n. rather than (the reality of) strength, Campani n. magis quam praesidium attulerunt, Liv. 7, 29.
    5. V. In adjurations; by way of appeal: Phr.: in the n. of gods and men, per deos atque homines, Cic. Div. 2, 55, 114: pro deorum atque hominum fidem, id. Tusc. 5, 16, 48: in heaven's n., Di! vestram fidem, Ter. Andr. 4, 3, 1.