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

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Contents (2 entries · 4 senses)
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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• behead:
      1. 1. secūri fĕrio, 4, or percŭtĭo, cussi, cussum, 3 (the former usu. in imperf. tenses): Cic.: Liv.
      2. 2. securi nĕco, 1 (less frequent): Liv.
      3. 3. dētrunco, 1: bodies b.'d with a sword, gladio detruncata corpora, Liv.
      4. 4. dēcollo, 1: Sen. Apocol.: Suet. N.B. The axe (securis) was the legitimate instrument of decapitation; hence securi ferio, etc. are the proper expr. for the punishment of beheading: detrunco is to sever a man's head from his body, in battle or elsewhere (= caput alicui praecidere, abscidere): decollo is a late and inelegant word.
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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• BEHEAD
To behead anybody, caput alicujus praecidere (with the sword; it would be wrong to say caput cervicibus abscidere, unless the person is first strangled, Cic., Phil., ii., 2: cervicibus fractis caput abscidit): securi ferire, or percutare (with the axe, as the instrument used by the executioner): decollare (as a general term, post-Augustan, Sen., and Suet., and even then rejected from the more elevated style).