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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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• act (subs.):
    1. I. The thing done:
      1. 1. factum: he is not only innocent of the act, but free from even the suspicion of being accessory to it, non modo a facto sed etiam a conscientiae suspicione abest, Cic.: I am glad that my act is approved by you, meum factum abs te probari gaudeo, Caes. ap. Cic.: illustrious and glorious acts, facta illustria et gloriosa, Cic.: v. action, deed, exploit.
      2. 2. acta, orum (esp. acts of public functionaries or which partook of a public character): and do ye, who are overturning Caesar's laws, defend his acts? et vos acta Caesaris defenditis qui leges ejus evertitis? Cic.: the acts of your tribuneship, acta tui tribunatus, Cic.: plans first, then acts, afterwards results, consilia prima, deinde acta, postea eventus, Cic.
      3. 3. actĭo (chiefly of official proceedings) the acts of the tribunes, actiones tribunorum, Caes.: Liv.: v. proceedings.
      4. 4. actus, ūs (rare): v. action. Phr.: our friends the Stoics deny that to flee is the act of a wise man, Stoici nostri negant fugere sapientis, Cic.: for me now to inquire closely into these things is the act of an unreasonable father, nunc ea me exquirere iniqui patris est, Ter.: to commit hostile acts, hostilia facere, Sall.: Indutiomarus was caught in the very act of crossing the river, in ipso fluminis vado Indutiomarus deprehensus est, Caes.: when the soldiers were in the very act of scaling the walls, cum jam in eo esset, ut in muros miles evaderet, Liv. (the esset is impers.) An act of parliament (v. parliament): the acts of the Apostles, acta Apostolorum, Vulg.
    2. II. A division of a drama; actus, ūs: the fourth act, quartus actus, Cic.: let not a play either close before or extend beyond the fifth act, neve minor neu sit quinto productior actu fabula, Hor. Fig.: the last act of life, extremus actus aetatis, Cic.