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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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• say (v.):
  1. A. In connected discourse:
    1. I. To express in words:
      1. 1. dīco, xi, ctum, 3: I shall s. what I think, dicam quod sentio, Cic. Parad. 1, 2: I s. again and again, etiam atque etiam dico, Cic. Att. 13, 25, fin.: usu. followed by acc. and inf., L. G. § 507.
      2. 2. āio, verb defect. (to affirm, opposed to nego, to deny): some said that Tarquinius had been instigated by Cicero, alii Tarquinium a Cicerone immissum aiebant, Sall. Cat. 48: Diogenes s.s that it is so, Antipater denies it, Diogenes ait, Antipater negat, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 91: usu. foll. by acc. and inf., L. G. l. c.
      3. 3. nĕgo, 1 (used in such phrr. as, he s.s that he is not, etc., and always implying a counter assertion): the Stoics s. that nothing is good unless it is honourable, Stoici negant quicquam esse bonum nisi quod honestum sit, Cic. Fin. 2, 21, 68: Cotta s.s that he will not go to an armed enemy, Cotta se ad armatum hostem iturum negat, Caes. B. G. 5, 36.
      4. 4. lŏquor, cūtus, 3: v. to speak.
      5. 5. fāri, fātus, 1 (poetical form of loquor): scarcely had I said these things, vix ea fatus eram, Virg. Aen. 2, 323: thus he said, and hurled his mighty spear, sic fatus, et ingentem hastam contorsit, Virg. Aen. 2, 50: one who can be prudent, and s. what he thinks, qui sapere et fari possit quae sentiat, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 9. In relative clauses: come now s. why are you come, fare age, quid venias, Virg. Aen. 6, 389. Phr.: to say nothing, nullam vocem emittere, Liv. 1, 54: nullam reddere vocem, Curt. (in Kr.): no sooner said than done, dictum ac factum, Ter. Andr. 2, 3, 7: with similar meaning, dicto citius, Virg. Aen. 1, 135.
    2. II. To report; esp. in such phrr. as, it is said, they say, etc.:
      1. 1. trādo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (to hand down by tradition): so it is said, sic est traditum, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 3: it is said that Galba, Africanus, and Laelius were learned men, Galbam, Africanum, Laelium doctos fuisse traditum est, Cic. Tusc. 1, 3, 5: they s. that Phidias himself ..., ipsum Phidian tradunt ..., Plin. 36, 45, 5, § 3.
      2. 2. narro, 1 (to relate): Philargyrus said to me ..., mihi Philargyrus narravit (foll. by acc. and inf.), Cic. Fam. 6, 1, fin. (In such sentences as, it is said that ..., a pers. form is usu. preferred to an impers.; as, it is said that Greece on account of the love of Paris, etc., Graecia [not Graeciam] propter Paridis narratur amorem ..., Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 6: it is said that in the Pontus the Caecias attracts the clouds towards itself, narrant in Ponto Caecian in se trahere nubes, Plin. 2, 47, 48: Cinna is said to write little verses against me, versiculos in me narratur scribere Cinna, Mart. 3, 9.)
      3. 3. dīco, xi, ctum, 3: concerning this man (Diodorus) it is said to Verres that he has very good embossed works of art, de hoc [Diodoro] Verri dicitur habere eum perbona toreumata, Cic. Verr. 4, 18, 38. Sometimes used impers.: they s. that Chrysis had lived in this street, in hac habitasse platea dictum 'st Chrysidem, Ter. Andr. 4, 5, 1: it was said that Titus, before he went away, had earnestly begged his father, etc., Titum, antequam digrederetur, multo apud patrem sermone orasse dicebatur, etc., Tac. H. 4, 52, init. (N.B.--Impers. constr. best avoided.)
      4. 4. āio, 3: v. defect. (in quoting a proverbial phr.): as they s., ut aiunt (as the saying is: parenthetically introduced), Cic. de Or. 2, 57, 233: cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 49.
      5. 5. fĕro, tŭli, lātum, 3 (esp. 1, 3rd pers. pl. act., and 3rd pers. sing. pass. = Fr. on-dit, it is said): for it is said that there was a certain Demaratus, a Corinthian, fuisse enim quendam ferunt Demaratum Corinthium, Cic. Rep. 2, 19, med.: they s. that the giants aimed at the heavenly kingdom, affectasse ferunt regnum caeleste gigantas, Ov. M. 1, 152. Passive use chiefly poet.: cf. Lucr. 5, 14 (namque Ceres fertur fruges instituisse); Virg. Aen. 1, 15 (quam Juno fertur terris magis omnibus unam posthabita soluisse Samo).
  2. B. Used parenthetically, like our "said I," "said he:" usu. inquam, 3, defect.: lest "says I" and "says he" should be too often introduced, ne inquam et inquit saepius interponeretur, Cic. Am. 1, 3: defend this one day, this one, I say, if thou canst, hunc unum diem, hunc unum, inquam, defende si potes, Cic. Phil. 2, 44, 112.