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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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• court (subs.):
    1. I. A space belonging to a house, enclosed by a wall or fence:
      1. 1. ārea (applicable to any open space: v. area): Plin. Ep.
      2. 2. ātrium (the inner court, entered from the front door: v. Dict. Ant., s. v. domus): v. hall.
      3. 3. aula (Gr. αὐλὴ = Lat. atrium): Hor.: Prop.
      4. 4. prōpătŭlum (an open front court: the atrium was entirely covered, excepting over the impluvium or tank: v. Dict. Ant. p. 427, (b.) in the open (front) c. of his house, in propatulo domi, Nep. Hann. 9, 3 (see the place); in p. aedium, Liv. (But in propatulo alone is simply in public.)
      5. 5. cŏhors, cors, chors, rtis, f.: for cattle or poultry: Varr.: v. yard.
    2. II. A palace:
      1. 1. aula: the joyous c. of Priam, a. laeta Priami, Hor.: away from c., who would be virtuous, exeat aula qui volet esse pius! Lucan: Cic. (rare): not at all fit for a c., haudquaquam aulae accommodatus, Curt.: to have the chief influence at c., aula et rege potiri, Tac. Also used to denote the persons composing the court: the c. was favourably inclined towards him, prona in eum a. (Neronis), Tac. H. 1, 13: a candidate for court favour, aulae candidatus, Instit. Aulicae. Adj. aulĭcus, belonging to a c.: Suet.
      2. 2. rēgia (sc. domus: hence usu. = palace: q. v.): to be seen at c., in r. visum esse (said of Caesar's house), Cic.: Tac. Phr.: to be banished from c., congressu et comitatu (principis) dejici, Tac.: to strive for c.-favour, ad gratiam principum grassari, Instit. Aulicae.
    3. III. By meton.: the persons constituting a c.:
      1. 1. aula: v. supr. (regia does not appear to be used in this way).
      2. 2. aulĭci: which does not ordinarily include the sovereign: v. courtier.
      3. 3. cŏmĭtes, cŏmĭtātus: v. retinue. (In such authors as Symm., Auson., etc. = aula, aulici.)
    4. IV. Obsequious attendance, as at court: chiefly in phr. to pay c.: [nullo] officio colere, Tac.: ambio; favorem alicujus aucŭpor, etc.: v. to court: also salūto: prop. to pay a visit of compliment or respect: Suet.: Tac.
    5. V. A place where justice is administered:
      1. 1. băsĭlĭca: Cic.: Vitr.: Suet.: v. Dict. Ant. s. v.
      2. 2. jūdĭcium (rare in this sense): cf. Quint. 4, 2, 25: to come into c., in j. venire, Nep. Ep. 8, 2: the word denotes, however, more prop. the body of judges: v. infr.
      3. 3. fŏrum: i. e. the public place of legal and other business: "the forum:" q. v.
      4. 4. subsellia, orum (the benches): to run away from the c., a subselliis discedere, Cic.: to bring a man back to the c., aliquem ad s. reducere, id.: the c.s of law require a more powerful voice, grandiorem vocem s. desiderant, id.
      5. 5. concĭliābŭlum (in provincial or country towns): Liv.
    6. VI. The persons or judges assembled in court:
      1. 1. jūdĭces (the body of judges or jurors): v. judge.
      2. 2. jūdĭcium: to bribe the c., j. corrumpere, Cic. Clu. 22, extr. (though here the word may strictly denote the legal procedure): to surround a c. with armed men, j. claudere militibus armatis, Quint.: to summon before a c., vocare aliquem in j., Cic.: to bring a matter into c., causam in judicium deducere, id.: to set before the c., sistere aliquem in judicium, Ulp. Dig. Phr.: to hold a c., forum agere, Cic.: to call into c., in jus vocare, Cic.: to plead before the c., pro tribunali agere, Cic.: court-day, dies fastus: usu. pl.: c.-days, fasti, orum, Cic.: Liv.