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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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• executioner:
      1. 1. carnĭfex, ĭcis, m. (of slaves or foreigners: see Smith's Dict. Ant. s. v.): Pl.: Cic. (who uses the term by way of reproach, of a lictor, Verr. 5, 45, 118).
      2. 2. vindex rei capitalis: Sall. Cat. 55 (where the ref. is to the triumviri capitales). (N.B. In early times the punishment of death was inflicted by the lictors; Liv. 2, 5: "missi lictores ad sumendum supplicium." Exactor supplicii is a judge who exacts the penalty: Liv. l. c.) Phr.: to die by the hands of the e., poenas morte dare, ultimum supplicium subire (v. punishment); if by beheading, securi feriri: v. to behead, hang, etc.