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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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• command:
    1. I. The right or power to command:
      1. 1. impĕrium: to confer a c., imp. dare, Cic.: to continue any one in c., alicui imp. prorogare, Suet.: to prefer civil and military c.s to friend-ship, magistratus imp. amicitiae anteponere, Cic.
      2. 2. praefectūra (the position of one put in authority: praeficio): the c. of the Gallic cavalry, equitum Gallorum p., Hirt.: the c. of the wings, p. alarum, Suet.
      3. 3. rĕgĭmen, ĭnis, n.: to hold the c., r. tenere, Tac.: the c. of cohorts, cohortium r., Tac.
      4. 4. summa (only of chief command): the c. or responsibility of the whole war, totius belli s., Cic.: more freq. in combination with imperii: to hold the supreme military c., s. imperii tenere, Cic.: Caes. Phr.: to appoint to c., praepōno, praefĭcio (with acc. of person, and dat. of thing): v. to appoint: to have the c., praesum (with dat.): v. to command, be governor. Fig.: to have the c. of one's tongue, ears, etc., lingua, auribus, competere, Tac. H. 3, 73: they had scarce sufficient c. of themselves, vix competere animus, Liv. 22, 5.
    2. II. A single act of c. (v. order):
      1. 1. impĕrium: to obey a c., imperio parere, Caes.: unjust c.s, injusta imp., Sall.: by Jove's c., Jovis imperio, Virg.
      2. 2. dictum: to obey the c.s of Ser. Tullius, Ser. Tullio dicto audientem esse, Liv.: Virg.: v. word.
      3. 3. impĕrātum: to come at c., ad imp. venire, Caes.: to execute c.s, imp. facere, Caes.
      4. 4. mandātum: v. charge, commission.
      5. 5. jussum: v. order. N.B. In the abl. only we find the form injussu, without command:, without Caesar's c., injussu Caesaris, Caes.: without its own c. (of the people), inj. suo, Cic.
      6. 6. praedictum (rare): the dictator's c., dictatoris p., Liv.