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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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• sound (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To cause to make a noise:
      1. 1. inflo, 1 (to blow into): to s. the trumpet, i. buccinam (based on Ov. M. 1, 340, buccina inflata): cf. i. classica, Virg. G. 2, 539: i. calamos leves, Virg. (v. to blow, B., II.).
      2. 2. căno, cĕcĭni, cantum, 3: c. fidibus, tibiis (v. to play, IV.). Esp. as a military term: (i.) to s. the signal for battle, bellicum c., Cic. Mur. 14, 30: signa c., Sall. J. 99: also canere, absol.: e. g., tubicen c. coepit, Hirt. B. Afr. 82. Simly. dare signum is used: dat signum specula Misenus ab alta aere cavo, Virg. Aen. 3, 239: esp. signo dato, Caes.: Cic.: Sall. (ii.) to s. a retreat, receptui c., Liv. 27, 47. Fig.: revocante et receptui canente senatu, Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8: cf. id. Tusc. 3, 15, 33. Also, receptus c.: (buccina) cecinit jussos inflata receptus, Ov. M. 1, 340. Simly. dare signum receptui, Liv. 2, 62, is used.
      3. 3. occăno, ui, 3 (rare: to blow, s. a wind-instrument): then Sentius gave the order to s. the trumpets, tum Sentius occanere cornua jussit, Tac. A. 2, 81.
      4. 4. conclāmo, 1: to s. to arms, c. ad arma, Liv. 3, 50, post med.: to s. a march, vasa c. (ellipt. for c., ut vasa colligantur), Caes. B. C. 1, 66.
      5. 5. crĕpo, ui, ĭtum, 1: thrice s.'d the Muses favouring noises with their hands, (Camenae) manibus faustos ter crepuere sonos, Prop. 4, 9 (3, 10), 4: to s. (or make to chink) small gold coins, c. aureolos, Mart. 5, 19, 14: cf. c. procul auxiliantia aera, Stat. Th. 6, 680. Miscell.: to s. the lute, cithara personare, Virg. Aen. 1, 741: to s. the various notes with the fingers and an ivory quill, discrimina vocum digitis et pectine eburno pulsare, Virg. Aen. 6, 647: cf. lyram percutere, Ov. Am. 3, 12, 40: cymbala quatere, Virg. G. 4, 64 (v. to strike): to s. chords and flutes, nervorum elicere sonos ac tibiarum, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150: to s. a bell, *tintinnabulum pulsare (Ainsw.): to s. a syllable sharply, syllabam acutam excitare, Quint. 12, 10, 33 (v. also to pronounce).
    2. II. To s. or celebrate one's praises: căno, canto, cĕlĕbro, concĕlĕbro, sŏno (v. to celebrate, I.). Phr.: you promise that you will s. (the praises of) my good name, polliceris te buccinatorem fore existimationis meae, Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 2: v. to trumpet, boast.
    3. III. To test the depth (e. g., of water): perh. *perpendiculo mare imum s. vadum tentare: *perpendiculo uti: or *catapirate (so Forcell.: but v. l. cataprorate) uti, cf. Isid. Or. 19, 4: *ad perpendiculum exigere (based on Cic. Verr. 1, 51, 133, ad perp. columnas exigere): to s. a river, vadum fluminis tentare, Caes. B. C. 1, 83: cf. vadum fluminis experiri, Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 12. Fig.: tentare vadum (to make a first attempt), Ov. A. A. 1, 437: also, to s. (= to tamper with), tentare: e. g., animos servorum spe et metu t., Cic. Clu. 63, 176 (v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. tento, II., 2): v. also to tempt, tamper with. Phr.: do you not know that I have s.'d him in everything (lit. fished everything out of him)? nescis me ab illo omnia expiscatum? Cic. Fam. 9, 19, 1: I pretended this that I might s. your inclinations, ea gratia simulavi vos ut pertentarem, Ter. Andr. 3, 4, 9: I should like you to s. that guest of yours, velim odorere istum convivam tuum degustes, Cic. Att. 4, 8 (b), 4: v. also to examine, search, probe.
  2. B. Intrans.: To emit a s.:
      1. 1. sŏno, ui, ĭtum, 1: s. fides, aera, plectra, Prop. 5 (4), 7, 62: tympana sonuerunt, Caes. B. C. 3, 105, fin.: to s. bass, treble, graviter, acute s., Cic. Rep. 6, 18 (5), 18. Rarely with a pers. acc.: nor does his voice s. like that of a man, nec vox hominem s., Virg. Aen. 1, 328. Comps.: persŏno, rĕsŏno, consŏno, circumsŏno (v. to resound).
      2. 2. căno, cĕcĭni, cantum, 3: suddenly the (trumpet-) signals s.'d in the rear, repente a tergo signa canere, Sall. J. 94, ad fin.: cf. classicum c., Liv. 28, 27, fin. Also impers.: if a retreat had not been s.'d, nisi receptui cecinisset, id. 26, 44, ad med.: cf. id. 3, 22, post med.
      3. 3. concĭno, cĭnui, 3 (to s. together): the horns and trumpets s.'d together, cornua ac tubae concinuere, Tac. A. 1, 68: cf. Liv. 30, 5, post init., ubi signa concinuissent.
      4. 4. strĕpo, ui, 3 (usu. of a hoarse s.): rauco strepuerunt cornua cantu, Virg. Aen. 8, 2: litui s., Hor. Od. 2, 1, 18: s. omnis murmure campus, Virg. Aen. 6, 709. Very rarely of musical s.s: e. g. mons tibiarum cantu tympanorumque sonitu s., Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 7.
      5. 5. expr. by sonum s. sonitum efficere, reddere, edere (v. sound, subs., 1, 2). Phr.: this s.s well, but, etc., honesta oratio, sed, etc., Cic. Phil. 8, 4, 13: cf. Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 114: that which s.s ill, quod aures respuunt, Cic. Part. Or. 5, 15: Quint. 11, 1, 61 (p. 276, Bipont. Ed.): it s.'d too grand to be true, plus in oratione tali dignitatis quam fidei erat, Tac. A. 1, 11, med.: a thing which s.s strange, mirabile dictu, Virg. G. 2, 30: it s.s oddly, absonum est (Ainsw.): the pot s.s ill, maligne respondet fidelia, Pers. 3, 21: it s.s like a lie, fidei absonum est, based on Liv. 1, 15, ad fin.