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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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• beginning:
    1. I. The act of b.: inceptio (rare): Cic. (More usu. expr. by part of verb: as, the mode of b., incipiendi ratio, Cic.): v. to begin.
    2. II. The commencement itself:
      1. 1. ĭnĭtium: one part of Gaul takes its b. from the Rhone, una Galliae pars in. capit a Rhodano, Caes.: to make a b., in. facere, Cic.: v. to begin (10): the senate in the b. (i. e. at first) was of this opinion, senatus initio ita censuit, Cic.: also in pl., a thing that had a small b., res ab exiguis profecta initiis, Liv.
      2. 2. princĭpĭum: to have neither b. nor end, nec p. nec finem habere, Cic.: at the b., principio, a principio or in principio, Cic. Obs. Initium, says Kr., has relation simply to time, and is opposed to exitus: whereas principium denotes the b. of an action as that on which the sequel is based: v. principle.
      3. 3. exordĭum (esp. in rhetoric): the b. of evil, ex. mali, Cic.: I have often observed that the greatest orators are nervous at the b. of their speeches, saepe animadverti summos oratores in dicend exordio permoveri, Cic.
      4. 4. exorsus, ūs (rare): the b. of a speech, orationis ex., Cic.
      5. 5. inceptum (more usu. in pl.: v. undertaking): let it be kept till the end such as it was at the b., servetur ad imum qualis ab incepto processerit, Hor.
      6. 6. ingressio (entrance on: rare): Cic.
      7. 7. ingressus, ūs (l. q. ingressio): at the b. of a work, in ingressu operis, Quint.: Virg.
      8. 8. commissĭo (only of public games): Cic.: Suet. Phr.: at the b. of summer, inita aestate, Caes.; ab ineunte aestate, Cic.; incipiente aestate, Plin.: at the b. of spring, vere novo, Virg.: the b.s of battles, prima proelia, Liv.: from the b. of the world, post homines natos, Cic. ('not ab initio mundi,' Kr.): cf. to begin (fin.).
    3. III. Rudiment, earliest state:
      1. 1. ĕlĕmentum: the first b.s of Rome, prima el. Romae, Ov.: the b.s of vicious desire, el. cupidinis pravae, Hor.
      2. 2. rŭdīmentum: v. rudiment.
      3. 3. exordĭum: the b. of the city, ex. urbis, Suet.
      4. 4. prīmordium (usu. pl.): the b. of the world, primordia mundi, Ov.: Liv.: v. origin, principle.