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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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• return (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To give back, restore:
      1. 1. reddo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3: r. me my 10,000 sesterces, redde mihi X. sestertia, Catul. 102, 1: to r. is to give that which you owe to its owner on his request, r. est id quod debeas ei cujus est volenti dare, Sen. Ben. 7, 19, 1 (q. v.): to r. a thing "with interest," quod acceperis majore mensura r., Cic. Off. 1, 15, 48.
      2. 2. restĭtuo, ui, ūtum, 3 (constr. with ad or dat.): v. restore. Join: reddere et r., Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 8.
      3. 3. rĕfĕro, retŭli (rettŭli) rĕlatum, 3: to r. the stolen bowl, r. pateram surreptam, Cic. Div. 1, 25, 54.
      4. 4. rĕmitto, mīsi, missum, 3 (to send back): r. me my napkin, mihi linteum remitte, Catul. 12, 11: I r. your proffered favour, vestrum vobis beneficium remitto, Caes. B. C. 2, 32, extr.
      5. 5. rĕdhĭbeo, 2 (a merc. t. t.): the slave may be r.'d according to the civil law, redhibeatur mancipium jure civili, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 91: Dig.: Pl.
    2. II. To repay, give an equivalent for:
      1. 1. rĕfĕro, retŭli (rettŭli), rĕlātum, 3: if he cannot r. a kindness he can at least be sensible of it, si r. gratiam non potest habere certe potest, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 69: to r. like for like, parem gratiam r., Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 51: par pro pari r., id. ib. 3, 1, 55 (here Fleckeisen retains pro: others omit it).
      2. 2. reddo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3: to r. an answer, r. responsum, Cic. Planc. 14, 34: v. return (subs.) III.
      3. 3. rĕpōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3: to r. like for like, idem r., Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 19: v. repay, requite. (N. B.--The foll. passage is important it explains the preced.:--"referre est ultro quod debeas afferre. Non dicimus, gratiam reddidit; reddunt enim et qui reposcuntur et qui inviti, et qui ubilibet, et qui per alium. Non dicimus reposuit beneficium aut solvit: nullum enim nobis placuit quod aeri alieno convenit verbum. Referre est ad eum a quo acceperis rem ferre: haec vox significat voluntariam relationem: qui retulit ipse se appellavit:" Sen. Ep. 81, 9-10.) Phr.: to r. an answer, respondere, Cic.: v. answer: (to a letter) rescribere, id.: to r. love for love, amori amore respondere, id. Fam. 15, 21, 3; redamare (ut ita dicam), id. Am. 14, 49 (here only): to r. a favour, rependere gratiam, Phaedr. 2, prol., 12: to r. like for like, par pari respondere, Cic. Att. 6, 1; mutuum facere, Pl. Trin. 2, 4, 37: to r. a blow, referire, Sen. Ira, 2, 34, 5: to r. a salutation, resalutare, Cic. Phil. 2, 41, 106: after r.ing each other's greeting, salutato invicem, Phaedr. 3, 7, 3: a shout arises, the banks r. the sound, exoritur clamor, ripaeque responsant, Virg. Aen. 12, 757.
    3. III. To give in an official statement:
      1. 1. prŏfĭteor, fessus, 3 (to make a r. respecting oneself): to r. one's name among these, in his p. nomen suum, Ter. Eun. prol. 3: Cic.
      2. 2. rĕnuntio, 1: (to make a r. respecting others: hence of the r.ing officers, etc.): to r. Murena as consul, Murenam consulem r., Cic. Mur. 1, 1.
  2. B. Intrans.:
      1. 1. rĕdeo, ii, ĭtum, 4 (constr. with in, ad, acc. of motion, or adv.: also pass. impers.): the bourn whence they say none r., illuc unde negant r. quenquam, Catul. 3, 12: to go and r., ire et r., Phaedr. 2, 8, 12; rarely, and in poet., r. ireque, Ov. M. 2, 409: r.ing in careless order, redeuntes agmine incauto, Liv. 9, 38: by what day I am likely to r., ad quos dies rediturus sim, Cic. Att. 13, 9, extr.: thence they r.'d to Sora, ad Soram inde reditum (sc. est), Liv. 9, 24. Fig.: to r. to their original condition, in pristinum statum r., Caes. B. G. 7, 54, ad fin.
      2. 2. rĕvertor, versus or rĕverto, ti, 3 (the dep. form is the more usual, except in the pf. tenses: but the dep. pf. occurs in Tac. and Quint.: prop. to turn back again, before reaching one's destination: constr. like preced.): to go out of one's house and to r., exire domo et r., Cic. Tusc. 3, 15, 31: having advanced three days' journey they r.'d, tridui viam progressi rursus reverterunt, Caes. B. G. 4, 4 (notice the pleonasm). Fig.: to r. to one's old ways, ad superiorem consuetudinem r., Cic. Fam. 9, 24, 2: as a vulgar prov., ad armillum r., App. M. 9, p. 230: Lucil. (prop. to r. to the wine-vessel).
      3. 3. rĕvĕnio, vēni, ventum, 3 (to come back): to r. home, domum r., Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175: Pl.: Tac.
      4. 4. rĕmigro, 1 (to r. to a former abode): to r. to their own territory, suos r. in agros, Caes. B. G. 4, 27. Fig.: to r. to justice, ad justitiam r., Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62.
      5. 5. rĕvolvor, vŏlūtus, 3 (to turn back): I r. again and again to my seat at Tusculum, revolvor identidem in Tusculanum, Cic. Att. 13, 26. Fig.: to r. to his father's opinion, r. ad patris sententiam, id. Acad. 2, 48, 148.
      6. 6. rĕmeo, 1 (once only in Cic., of the movements of the air): the herds used to r. at nightfall to the stalls, nocte remeabant ad stabula greges, Liv. 24, 3: to r. to their native abodes, r. in patrias sedes, Tac. A. 14, 25.
      7. 7. rĕpĕto, īvi or ii, ītum, 3 (to r. to: constr. trans. with acc.: rarely absol.): to r. to the camp, castra r., Liv. 31, 21: diseases r., morbi repetunt, Cels. 2, 1, ad init.
      8. 8. rĕcurro, curri, 3 (to run back: hence, fig., to r.): you may drive out nature by force, yet she will continually r., naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 24: whence all things came., whither they r., unde generata (sint omnia) quo recurrant, Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 61.
      9. 9. rĕcurso, 1 (freq. of preced.): at night her anxiety r.s again and again, sub noctem cura recursat, Virg. Aen. 1, 662.
      10. 10. rĕbīto, 3: Pl. Phr.: he r.'d to the banquet, se ipse convivio reddidit, Liv. 23, 9, extr.: is it not enough to r. to Ithaca? non satis est Ithacam revehi? Hor. S. 2, 5, 4: to r. by the same way, iter rursus revolvere, Virg. Aen. 9, 391; relegere, Stat. Ach. 1, 23; to r. back, iter retrorsum porrigere, App. M. 6, p. 174: v. retrace: to r. from a walk, redambulare, Pl. Capt. 4, 2, 121: to r., pedem revocare, Virg. Aen. 9, 125; referre, Ps. Ov. H. 15, 186: to cause to r. from exile, de exsilio reducere, Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 9: to r. into voluntary exile, denuo in voluntarium exsilium proficisci, Just. 5, 5, extr.: to r. to one's former intemperance, innovare se ad suam intemperantiam, Cic. Pis. 36, 89: to r. to one's original pursuits, se ad pristina studia revocare, id. Brut. 3, 11: to r. to philosophy, se ad philosophiam referre, id. Off. 2, 1, 4: Syracuse r.'d into its former servitude, Syracusae in antiquam servitutem reciderunt, Liv. 24, 32, extr.