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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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• examine:
    1. I. In gen. sense:
      1. 1. investīgo, 1 (to inquire carefully): v. to enquire into, investigate.
      2. 2. interrŏgo, 1 (by questioning): v. to question.
      3. 3. exāmĭno, 1 (lit. with a balance: hence to weigh carefully): a corrupt judge ill e.s the truth, male verum e. corruptus judex, Hor. (Cic. has the word in similar sense, but always in connexion with some such word as pondera, trutina: v. to weigh.)
      4. 4. scrūtor, perscrūtor, 1: v. to search.
      5. 5. excŭtio, ssi, ssum, 3 (lit. by shaking, as to find something secreted): I am not e.ing you, if perchance you had a weapon about you, non excutio te, si quid forte ferri habuisti, Cic. R. Am. 34, 97: hence, to sift thoroughly: let us e. the whole subject, totum excutiamus locum, Quint. 5, 7, 6. Join: explicare atque excutere [verbum], Cic.
      6. 6. perspĭcio, exi, ectum, 3 (by looking carefully through a thing): to e. and thoroughly inquire into oneself, se ipsum p. totumque tentare, Cic. Leg. 1, 22, 59. Join: [causam] pertentare atque perspicere, Cic.
      7. 7. inspĭcio. 3 (by looking into): v. to inspect.
    2. II. Judicially:
      1. 1. quaero, quaesīvi, ītum, 3 (to hold a formal inquiry: v. to inquire): often, by torture: to e. a slave by torture against his master, de servo in dominum q., Cic. Mil. 22, 59: more precisely (aliquid) per tormenta q., Suet. Tib. 58.
      2. 2. interrŏgo, 1 (esp. of e.ing witnesses): v. cross-examination.
      3. 3. torqueo, 2 (by torture): v. to torture.
    3. III. To test qualifications:
      1. 1. prŏbo, 1: v. to prove, test (cf. examination, 5).
      2. 2. tento, 1 (to make trial of): cf. Cic. Div. 1, 17, 32: "cujus quum tentaret scientiam auguratus." Phr.: to e. boys, *puerorum in doctrina progressus tentare, experiri; pueros probare; pueri quantum in discendo profecerint exquirere (cf. improvement).