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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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• torture (subs.):
    1. I. Pain inflicted with a view to obtain confession or evidence:
      1. 1. tormentum (almost always pl.: used also for the instrument of t.): to make inquiry by t., tormentis quaerere, Cic. Deiot. 1, fin.: per t. quaerere [quid sit veri], Plin. Ep. 10, 97 (96), 8: to do so with the severest t.s, omnibus t. vehementissimis quaerere, Cic. Clu. 63, 176: cf. verberibus ac t. quaestionem habere, id. Ph. 11, 2, 5: to wring out a confession by t., tormentis confessionem exprimere, Suet. Tib. 19: to apply t., t. adhibere, Cic. Off. 3, 9, 39.
      2. 2. quaestio (of slaves: lit. examination, which in their case was made under t.): to reveal anything under t. [of a slave], in quaestione aliquid dicere, Cic. Clu. 63, 176: to demand a slave to be examined under t., servum in quaestionem postulare, ib. 64, extr.
    2. II. Pain inflicted by way of punishment or cruelty:
      1. 1. crŭciātus, ūs (cruel and inhuman treatment): to be put to death with cruel t.s, cum cruciatu necari, Caes. B. G. 5, 45: cf. ib. 56, omnibus cruciatibus affectus necatur: to be mangled with extreme t.s, per ultimos c. lacerari, Curt. 6, 11: to be hurried away to t., in cruciatum abripi, Ter. Andr. 4, 4, 47: to submit to (any) t., dare se in c., Cic. R. Am. 41, 119.
      2. 2. supplĭcium: (any very severe or cruel penalty, esp. capital punishment of a cruel kind): to kill a person with the most cruel t.s, aliquem omni s. cruciatum necare, Cic. Man. 5, init.: cf. s. miserrima et crudelissima perferre [fig.], id. ad Pomp. [Att. 8, 11].
      3. 3. tormenta, orum (cf. supr. 1): to put a person to death by fire and every conceivable t., aliquem igne atque omnibus t. excruciatum interficere, Caes. B. G. 6, 18 (19): the sing. occurs in this sense, Suet. Tib. 62 (fidicularum simul urinaeque tormento). See also verb (foll. art.).
      4. 4. carnĭfĭcīna (executioner's work): to undergo t., c. subire, Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 78: Liv. Instruments of t.: tormenta: (gen. term): Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 89 [also perh. so to be understood in the passages given under I.]: specially ĕquŭleus (v. rack); fĭdĭcŭlae, arum (cords for distending the limbs): Suet. l. c.: Sen.: also, verbera, ignis; enumerated among the instrumenta crudelitatis, Curt. 6, 11.
    3. III. Any extreme suffering:
      1. 1. crŭciātus: to undergo incredible t.s (from gout), incredibiles c. [et indignissima tormenta] pati, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 6: to cause dreadful t.s, taetros c. ciere, Cic. poet. Fin. 2, 29, 94: used of mental agony, id. Att. 11, 11 (confectus jam cruciatu maximorum dolorum).
      2. 2. tormentum: no acuter t. than envy, invidia non majus t., Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 59: the t.s of Fortune, Fortunae t., Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 1: cf. supr. (1).
      3. 3. expr. by dŏlōres, with some intensive word: v. pain, torment.
      4. 4. carnĭfĭcīna: Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, init. (used as a very strong expr., downright torture: quum omnis aegritudo miseria est, tum carnificina est aegritudo).