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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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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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• ambassador:
      1. 1. lēgātus: to send a.s to declare war, legatos ad indicendum bellum mittere, Liv.: the rights of a.s, jus legatorum, Caes.: Cic.: Hor.
      2. 2. ōrātor (prop. a speaker): Fabricius, sent as a. to Pyrrhus about the prisoners, Fabricius ad Pyrrhum de captivis missus orator, Cic.: Liv. Phr.: they sent an honourable man as a. to Apronius, hominem honestum legarunt ad Apronium, Cic.: to carry instructions in the character of an a., (yet not formally an a.), oratoris modo (ad aliquem) mandata perferre, Caes. Or expr. by oratoris s. legati loco: cf. orator (2).
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• AMBASSADOR
legatus. Ambassador to treat for a peace, orator pacis or pacis petendae (v. Cic., De Rep., 2, 8; Liv, 36, 27): *legatus pacificatum or ad pacificandum missus (☞ Liv., 5, 23; 7, 40). To be an ambassador, legatum esse: legationem gerere, administrare: legatione fungi: to send ambassadors, legatos mittere; also mittere only, with qui (and subjunctive): to send ambassadors to anybody, legatos ad aliquem mittere: anybody as ambassador to anybody, aliquem legatum mittere, or aliquem legare ad aliquem (de aliqua re, if the purpose is expressed).