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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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• cause (subs.):
    1. I. That which produces an effect:
      1. 1. causa: a c. is that which produces that of which it is the c., c. ea est quae id efficit cujus est c., Cic.: an efficient c., c. efficiens, Cic.: a final c., c. finalis, M. L. 2. mātĕrĭes or mātĕrĭa (material: q. v.): the c. of all evils, materies omnium malorum, Sall.: to give c. for envy, materiam invidiae dare, Cic. Phr.: Trebonius seemed to be the c. of their not getting possession of the town, stetisse per Trebonium quominus oppido potirentur, videbatur, Caes.: he has given you no c. to be angry, nihil fecit quod succenseas, Ter.: I will give him c. to remember me as long as he lives, faciam ut mei semper meminerit, Pl.: I hear that you accuse us all without c., te omnes nos accusare audio immerito, Ter.: Milo is shocked at this, and not without c., hoc horret Milo, neque injuria, Cic.: v. reason, account.
    2. II. A subject of litigation; a legal suit:
      1. 1. causa: to decide a c. in one's favour, causam alicui adjudicare, Cic.: to abandon a c. (of an advocate), c. affligere, Cic.: private c.s, c. privatae, Cic.: public c.s, c. publicae, Cic.: a c. affecting life or reputation, capitis aut famae c., Cic.: to lose a c., causam perdere, or causā cadere, Cic.: to plead a c., causam dicere, Caes.: Liv.: a petty or unimportant c., causŭla, Cic.
      2. 2. rēs, rĕi, f.: to speak about c.s already investigated and decided, de rebus cognitis judicatisque dicere, Cic.: Ulp.
      3. 3. sacrāmentum (rare; and orig. denoting the deposit made by litigants): the decemvirs adjudged our c. to be just, decemviri s. nostrum justum judicaverunt, Cic.: v. suit, action.
    3. III. Side, party, object: causa: that he might not seem to condemn that c. to which he had attached himself, he came to the camp, ne condemnare c. illam quam secutus esset, videretur, ad castra venit, Cic.: your zeal in the c. was less active, languidiore studio in causa fuistis, Cic.: the c. of the conquerors found favour with the gods, that of the conquered with Cato, victrix c. deis placuit, sed victa Catoni, Lucan. Phr.: to be active in the c. of the oppressed, *circumventos acriter defendere: we will one and all take up arms in our country's c., *pro patria arma capiemus universi.