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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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    1. I. A maker, contriver, originator:
      1. 1. auctor: they were unwilling to be the a.s of a war, auctores belli esse nolebant, Caes.: the a. of a plan, consilii a., Caes.: v. founder.
      2. 2. condĭtor (i. e. one who puts together): the a. of the whole affair, c. totius negotii, Cic.: the a. of Roman law, c. Romani juris, Liv.
      3. 3. inventor (v. inventor): the a. of all the arts, omnium artium i., Caes.: Cic.
      4. 4. rĕpertor: the a. of laws, legum r., Quint.: the a. of a new system of law, novi juris r., Tac.
      5. 5. princeps, ĭpis (beginner, chief): the a. of a plan, consilii p., Cic.: v. framer, contriver, inventor.
    2. II. The writer of a book:
      1. 1. scriptor: a.s of accounts of their own actions, scriptores rerum suarum, Cic.: a perspicuous a., s. luculentus, Cic.: the a. of satyric dramas, satyrorum s., Hor.: a.s of great genius arose there, provenere ibi scriptorum magna ingenia, Sall.: that very ancient a., Lysias, vetustissimus ille s., Lysias: Cic.
      2. 2. auctor (a word which applying as it does to other things besides books, requires to be used with caution, and only where the context furnishes the necessary limitation: it is used in Cic. only of an authority for a particular opinion or statement): Polybius an exceedingly good a. (i. e. authority; q. v.) writes, P. bonus a. in primis scribit, Cic. Off. 3, 32, 113 (cf. Att. 12, 18, 1: "quos nunc lectito auctores," where it denotes advisers or warranters of a particular course of action): writings ruinous to their a., scripta auctori perniciosa suo, Ov.: a.s of comedy, auctores comoediae, Quint.: the a. of the African war, Belli Africi a., Suet.
      3. 3. condĭtor (i. e. composer): the a. of a history, historiae c., Ov.: an a. of poems, c. carminum, Curt.: v. writer, composer.