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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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• rack (subs.):
    1. I. An instrument of torture.
      1. 1. ĕquŭleus: to put any one to the r., aliquem in equuleum imponere, Curt. 6, 10, ad init.: equuleo torquere aliquem, Cic. Fin. 3, 13, 42: Cic. Mil. 21, extr.: Sen.
      2. 2. meton. quaestio (prop. examination on the rack): Cic. Phr.: to put to the r.: to offer a slave for examination on the r., dare servum in quaestionem, Cic. R. A. 41, 120: to promise a slave for examination on the r., servum in quaestionem polliceri, ib. 28, 77: to demand a slave for examination on the r. respecting the death of his master, postulare servum in quaestionem de morte domini, cf. id. Clu. 64 § 181: the word denoting the crime is usually dependent on the prep. de, but the following constr. may also be used: to examine slaves on the r. respecting the death of one's father, mortis paternae de servis quaestionem ferre, id. R. A. 28, 78.
      3. 3. tormentum (gen. term: torture): to extort a confession by the r., tormentis aliquem cogere confiteri, id. Mil. 21, 57; tormentis exprimere confessionem cogitati sceleris, Suet. Tib. 19: the fear of the r. compels them to confess the truth, motus tormentorum vera fateri eos cogit, Liv.: even on the r. they stuck to the truth, vi tormentorum adducti in veritate manserunt, Cic. Clu. 63, 176: to die on the r., in tormentis necari, id. N. D. 3, 33, 82: to hand a slave over for examination on the r., dedere servum tormentis, id. Mil. 22, 58:
      4. 4. carnĭfĭcīna: v. torture.
    2. II. Fig.: extreme pain, perh. carnĭfĭcīna: cf. Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, init., quum omnis perturbatio miseria est, tum carnificina est aegritudo: but usu. better expr. by verb: e. g. to be on the r., cruciari, excruciari, discruciari (cf. Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 1, discrucior animi! I am on the r.!); animo angi (to be in distress of mind), Cic. Fam. 16, 14; also, angi et cruciari, id. Att. 7, 22. See also suspense.
    3. III. A wooden frame from which horses and cattle are fed.
      1. 1. faliscae, arum: Cat. R. R. 4, init. (f. clathratae, furnished with a grating).
      2. 2. crātis, crātes, is, f. (prop. wicker work): Veg. Vet. 1, 56.
      3. 3. jācea or jacca (the vulgar term = cratis): Veg. l. c., cratis quae jacea vocatur a vulgo.
    4. IV. Vapour; hence, thin flying clouds driven by the wind ("leave not a rack behind," Shaks.: "the doubtful rack of heaven," Dryd.): nubes ... veluti pendentia vellera lanae, like hanging fleeces of wool, Lucr. 6, 504: cf. Virg. G. 1, 397, tenuia nec lanae per caelum vellera ferri.