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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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• suit (subs.):
    1. I. A law-suit:
      1. 1. līs, lītis, f.: to enter on a s. by calling witnesses, l. contestari, Cic. Att. 16, 15, 2: to enter on a s. against some one, l. alicui intendere s. in aliquem inferre, id. (v. law-suit, to sue): to conduct a s., l. orare, id. Off. 3, 10, 43 (v. also to plead, II.): to abandon a s. (of an advocate who neglects his client's cause and defends himself), l. suam facere, id. de Or. 2, 75, 305: to gain or lose a s., l. obtinere aut amittere, id. Rosc. Com. 4, 10 (v. also to lose, I., 2.).
      2. 2. causa: to conduct a s., c. orare s. dicere s. agere (v. to plead, II.): to gain a s., c. obtinere, Cic. Fam. 1, 4, 1: cf. c. vincere, Ov. H. 16, 76: to lose a s. (through misconduct in the defence), c. perdere, Cic. Rosc. Com. 4, 10: to be cast in a s., causa cadere (v. to nonsuit: cf. formula cadere, Sen. Ep. 48, fin.: formula excidere, Suet. Claud. 14: also cadere, absol., Tac. H. 4, 6): to drop or abandon a s., causa desistere, Cic. Off. 3, 31, 112: cf. affligere c. susceptam, id. Sest. 41, 89: v. cause (subs., II.).
      3. 3. rēs, rĕi: v. cause (subs., II., 2.). [Cf. Cic. Mur. 12, fin., tot homines statuere non potuisse, utrum rem an litem dici oporteret.]
      4. 4. actio, ōnis, f.: the s.s of many and the property in s. were lost, multis a. et res peribant, Liv. 39, 18, init.: v. also action (V., 1.).
      5. 5. dĭca: v. action (V., 2.).
      6. 6. jūdĭcium: to gain a s., judicio vincere, Cic. Rosc. Com. 18, 53: v. trial, criminal (adj. II.). Phr.: to demand a s. against some one (from the praetor), in aliquem delationem nominis postulare, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 20, 64: to grant a s., (of the praetor), nomen recipere (with gen. of the person sued), id. Verr. 2, 38, 94 (for which Tac. A. 2, 74, has recipere reum: and ib. 3, 70, aliquem inter reos recipere): to bring a s. against (lit. propose a judge to) some one, judicem ferre alicui, Liv. 3, 57, ad med.: to bring a s. according to law in respect of an inheritance, lege agere in hereditatem, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175.
    2. II. Petition: q. v.
    3. III. Courtship: q. v. Phr.: (of the man) to make s. to, pĕto (v. to woo, suitor, Phr.): she has rejected my s., repulit connubia nostra, Virg. Aen. 4, 214. [Or may be expr. by sperno, contemno, etc. (v. to despise, reject) amantem, procum, etc. (v. lover, II., suitor, IV.)]
    4. IV. A s. of clothes: synthĕsis, is, f.: Mart. 2, 46, 4. Or expr. gen. by vestītus, vestīmenta (v. clothes). A s. of armour, arma, etc. (v. armour).
    5. V. A s. of playing cards: perh. *chartarum lusoriarum familia s. genus. Phr.: to follow s., perh. *charta concolore s. simili ludere, For to follow s. (fig.), v. to imitate. See also suite.