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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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• talk (v.):
      1. 1. lŏquor, cūtus, 3 (both neut. and act.): to t. with some one, l. cum aliquo, Cic. Att. 9, 17, ad init.: to t. through the nose, balba de nare l., Pers. 1, 33: the parrot learns to t., psittacus l. discit, Plin. 10, 42, 58: to t. with the fingers, digitis l., Ov. Trist. 2, 453: to become able to t., loquendi facultatem consequi, Cels. 7, 12, 4: let me t. with myself, sine loquar mecum, Sen. Ben. 5, 7, 6: to t. correctly, recte l., Quint. 1, 1, 4: to t. indistinctly, l. incerta voce, id. 1, 1, 21: to t. in another tongue, alia lingua l., Cic. de Or. 2, 14, 61: to t. Greek, Latin, Graece, Latine l., id. Tusc. 1, 8, 15: to t. sweetly, dulce l., Hor. Od. 1, 22, 24: what you and I had t.'d in private about your sister, quae fueramus ego et tu inter nos de sorore locuti, Cic. Att. 5, 1, ad init.: to t. of nothing but fleets and armies, nihil nisi classes l. et exercitus, id. ib. 9, 2, ad fin.: to t. big, magnum l., Hor. A. P. 280. t.ing very grandly, omnia magna loquens, id. Sat. 1, 3, 13: to t. wildly, l. deliramenta, Pl. Am. 2, 2, 64 (73).
      2. 2. sermōcĭnor, 1 (to t. with, converse: rare): to t. earnestly, diligenter s., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 52, 138: t.ing parrots, psittaci sermocinantes, Plin. 10, 42, 58: in ordinary writing or t.ing, in consuetudine scribendi aut sermocinandi, Cic. Inv. 2, 17, 54: (Gell. 17, 2, remarks, that Q. Claudius used consermōnor, and adds, "sermonari rusticius videtur sed rectius").
      3. 3. fābŭlor, 1: to t. together, f. inter sese, Pl. Epid. 2, 2, 55: to t. plainly with you, ut aperte tibi fabuler, Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 49: whilst t.ing, inter fabulandum, Gell. 15, 1, ad med.: they happened to stand t.ing together, stabant forte una fabulantes, id. 19. 13, init.
      4. 4. confābulor, 1 (to converse together: rare): Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 107: Pl.
      5. 5. collŏquor, cūtus, 3 (constr. with cum, inter with pron. refl. or abs.: to hold a conversation or conference): they t.'d much together, multum inter se collocuti sunt, Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 26 to t. by means of letter-writing, per literas c., id. Fam. 1, 7, 1: the generals t. together, imperatores colloquuntur simul, Pl. Am. 1, 1, 69.
      6. 6. garrio, īvi or ii, ītum, 4 (act.: to prate, chatter): t. away, garri modo, Ter. Ph. 3, 2, 11: to t. anything you please, g. quidlibet, Hor. Sat. 1, 9, 13: to t. whatever comes uppermost, garrire quidquid in buccam (sc. venit), Cic. Att. 12, 1, ad fin.: I wished to t. more, cupiebam plura g., id. ib. 6, 2, ad fin.: to t. nonsense, g. nugas, Pl. Aul. 5, 21.
      7. 7. blătĕro, 1 (to t. idly or foolishly: used as an act. verb): why do you t. nonsense? quid blateras? Varr. in Non. 1, 886: Hor. Sat. 2, 7, 35: v. prate, chatter.
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        .: the child will try to t., puer verba effingere conabitur, Quint. 1, 1, 5: to teach a magpie to t., picam docere nostra verba conari, Pers. prol. 9: birds taught to t. Greek and Latin, aves Graeco et Latino sermone dociles, Plin. 10, 42, 59: the raven being soon accustomed to t., corvus mature sermoni assuefactus, id. 10, 43, 60: to t. without any meaning, inani voce sonare, Cic. Fin. 2, 15, 48: to t. nonsense, nugas blatire, Pl. Am. 2, 1, 82: t. away, da te in sermonem, Cic. Att. 13, 23, ad fin.: to t., caedere sermones (an imitation of the Gr. κόπτειν τὰ ῥήματα), Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 1: to t. with him in private, cum eo secreta colloquia serere, Liv. 34, 61: it is pleasant for me to t. with you by letter, jucundus est mihi sermo literarum tuarum, Cic. Fam. 7, 32, ad fin.: he was the first to begin t.ing about that, princeps ejus sermonis ordiendi fuit, id. de Or. 1, 21, 98: to happen to t. about ..., incidere in illum sermonem qui ..., id. Am. 1, 2: they happened to t. of their wives, incidit de uxoribus mentio, Liv. 1, 57: to t. about something else, sermonem alio transferre, Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 133: a thing much t.'d of, res multum agitata sermonibus, Plin. Ep. 6, 19, ad init.: res multum celebrata sermonibus, Liv. 34, 61: to t. much with the men, celebrare juvenes multo sermone, Tib. 1, 6, 17: the deed began to be t.'d of in every place, per omnes locos de facto agitari, Sall. Jug. 30, 1: to t. freely and often of it, id libenter usurpare crebris sermonibus, Cic. Marcel. 2, 5: to be continually t.'d of, in ore vigere, id. Tusc. 1, 49, 116: to come to be t.'d of as a joke, in ora hominum pro ludibrio abire, Liv. 2, 36: we will give them something to t. of, dabimus sermonem iis, Cic. Fam. 9, 3, 1: to t. of murder when drunk, caedem eructare sermonibus, id. Cat. 2, 5, 10.