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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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• commandant, commander:
      1. 1. impĕrātor: i. e. c.-in-chief: v. general: fem. impĕrātrix, īcis: Cic.: Plin.
      2. 2. ductor: Cic.: Liv: v. leader.
      3. 3. dux, dŭcis, c.: v. general.
      4. 4. praefectus (prop. part. pass. of praeficio: hence sometimes foll. by dat.): c. of cavalry, p. equitum, Hirt.; or simply praefectus: Caes.: c. of the fleet, p. classis, Liv.: Cic.: c. of the imperial guard, p. praetorii or praetorio, Tac. Phr.: to be c. of, praeesse: v. to command: to appoint any one c., praeficio, praepono: v. to appoint.
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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• COMMANDER
1. praefectus alicujus and alicui: praepositus alicui. qui alicui praeest or praepositus est (general term): dux (of an army or a division): dux summus: imperator (commander-in-chief): belli or exercitus dux, or from the context dux. ductor only (any commander in war; duct, however not in plain prose), bello praepositus: commander of the horse, magister equitum (the proper word in the Roman army): of the fleet, praefectus classis: to be commander-in-chief, [Vid: “to have the chief command.” under COMMAND]: dux, praefectus classis (admiral): praetor (commander of troops, not Romans, especially of land-troops, στρατηγός, often used by Nep., Vid: commentators on Milt., 4, 4): praefectus equitum (general term, while magister equitum refers to the Roman horse only): to be commander of the horse, equitatui praeesse: commander of the infantry, copiarum pedestrium dux: to be, copiis pedestribus, or simply copiis praeesse: commander of the artillery, perhaps *praefectus rei tormentariae summus: to be elected commander, chosen commander-in-chief, ducem deligi ad bellum gerendum: the valour of a commander, virtus imperatoria: talents for a future commander, indoles imperatoriae virtutis (Justinianus, 2, 8, 15): the experience of a commander, rei militaris peritia.
2. = a paving-ram), fistuca.