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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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• extort:
      1. 1. extorqueo, si, tum, 2 (by torture, force, or importunity): to e. money from any one, (pecuniam) ab aliquo ex., Cic.: by violence, vi ex., Cic.
      2. 2. exprĭmo, pressi, ssum, 3 (to wring from, to elicit by pressure of any kind): he is said to have e.'d 200 sestertia from a young man, dicitur ducenta sestertia juveni expressisse, Suet. Vesp. 4: Cic.: to e. a confession from any one, ex. alicui confessionem, Liv. Phr.: to e. money from a man by threatening him with law, litium terrore pecuniam ab aliquo abradere, Cic. Caec. 7, 19. See also to exact.
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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• EXTORT
exprimere, or extorquere alicui aliquid, or aliquid ab (or ex) aliquo: expugnare aliquid; from anybody, ab aliquo; excutere aliquid (to take by force). To extort money, pecuniam per vim capere: to extort money from anybody, pecuniam ab aliquo extorquere or extorquere atque eripere; pecuniam alicui or numulorum aliquid ab (or ex) aliquo exprimere; aurum expugnare ab aliquo: to extort anything by violence and fear from anybody, vi metuque extorquere alicui aliquid; by threatening, minis extorquere, etc.; by threatening him with a lawsuit, aliquid a aliquo litium terrore abradere (Cic.): to extort a confession from anybody, exprimere alicui confessionem; exprimere or extorquere, ut aliquis fateatur.