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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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• action:
    1. I. The putting forth of power or exercise of faculty:
      1. 1. actio, ōnis, f.: to divest the gods of motion and of divine a., spoliare deos motu et a. divina, Cic.: the a. of the body, a. corporis, Cic.: vital a., vitae a., Cic.: in undertaking every a. three things are to be observed, in omni a. suscipienda tria sunt tenenda, Cic. Hence of definite things done: a.s right or honourable, a. rectae, honestae, Sen.
      2. 2. actus, ūs: a head liable to tremble with the least a., caput in quantulocunque a. tremulum, Suet.: to die in a., in actu mori, Sen.: to be engaged in some kind of a., in aliquo a. esse, Lact. Hence of particular a.s: good and bad a.s, recti pravi a., Cic. (but the reading is doubtful, and no other example of such usage appears to occur in Cic.): Sil.: Claud.
    2. II. Something done: v. deed, act, conduct.
    3. III. In works of art: esp. dramas: actio: the play has much a., fabula multas actiones habet, Cic.
    4. IV. Gesticulation in the delivery of a speech:
      1. 1. actio: a. is a kind of bodily speech, est a. quasi sermo corporis, Cic.: varied and vehement a., full of spirit, a. varia, vehemens, plena spiritus, Cic.
      2. 2. actus, ūs: Quint.: Suet.
    5. V. A course of legal proceedings, or the right to institute them:
      1. 1. actĭo: to bring an a. against any one, a. alicui intendere, Cic.: Quint.: a. inferre cum aliquo, Dig.: to arrange the proceedings of an a. (as an advocate), a. instituere, Cic.: an a. for personal injuries, a. injuriarum, Cic.: an a. for theft, a. furti, etc.: to allow an a. (of the praetor), a. dare, Cic.: to name the kind of a (which was done by the plaintiff), a edere, Ulp.: to have a right of a. (in case of injury), habere actionem, Cic. Actio sometimes means "a formula of action:" Cn. Flavius, a scribe, made the fasti public, and drew up the forms of actions, Cn. Flavius, scriba, fastos protulit actionesque composuit, Cic.: v. cause, suit.
      2. 2. dĭca (δίκη: only of an action in a Greek court of law): to bring an a. against any one, alicui dicam scribere, Cic.: Ter.: d. alicui subscribere, Pl.: d. alicui impingere, Ter. Note. The word is used by Cic. in speaking of a Sicilian court, and by the comic writers with reference to those of Greece. Phr.: To bring an action:
      3. 1. ăgo, ēgi, actum, 3: esp. with lege: to bring an a. at law for an inheritance, a. lege in hereditatem, Cic. to bring an a. on an agreement, ex sponso a., Cic.: to bring an a. at civil law, ex jure civili a., Cic.
      4. 2. litem, actionem intendo, etc.: v. lawsuit, and supr. (V.).
    6. VI. An engagement, battle: q. v.