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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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• extortion:
      1. 1. (pĕcūniae) rĕpĕtundae (lit. monies proper to be claimed again: in various legal phr.) Piso first brought forward a law respecting e., Piso legem primus de pecuniis repetundis tulit, Cic. Brut. 27, 106] but in other authors the subs. is usu. omitted: to accuse a person of e., aliquem repetundarum or de repetundis, (Cic.) postulare, Suet.: being accused of e., repetundarum reus, Sall.: to be found guilty of e., repetundarum damnari, convinci, Suet.
      2. 2. expr. by verb: to have been guilty of e. in many cases, *multa vi [minis, metu] expressisse, extorsisse: v. to extort.
      3. 3. concussio (by illegal intimidation): Dig.
      4. 4. răpīna (violent e.): v. robbery.
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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• EXTORTION
Of money, violenta exactio: to accuse of extortion (in a province), postulare aliquem de repetundis or repetundarum: to condemn for extortion, damnare aliquem de repetundis: accused of extortion, pecuniarum repetundarum reus.