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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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• implore:
      1. 1. implōro, 1 (to appeal to with tears or earnestly): very often with another verb: imp. et appellare; imp. atque obtestari, Cic. Verr. 5, 72, 188; [misericordiam] imp. et exposcere, Cic. Mil. 34, init. A verbal clause following must be introduced by ut, ne: cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 51.
      2. 2. posco, exposco, pŏposci, 3 (the latter more emphatic; to ask urgently): to i. victory of the Gods, victoriam ab Divis ex., Caes. B. C. 2, 5: Cic.: v. supr. (Posco rarely in this sense: v. to beg, I., 5).
      3. 3. ōro, 1 (to beg, entreat: scarcely so strong as the Eng.): Join: orare atque obsecrare, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17, 42; rogare atque orare, ib. § 96; orare et obtestari, Cic. Pl. extr.
      4. 4. obsecro, 1: v. to entreat. See also to beg, beseech.
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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• IMPLORE
implorare aliquem or aliquid (to pray for help with tears and supplication): supplicare alicui: se alicui supplicem abjicere (to implore passionately; falling, as it were, at his knees, wringing one’s hands, etc., humbly before anyone, with the consciousness of his great dignity and power, and of one’s own great need): obsecrare aliquem (to implore anybody urgently; beseeching him in the name of God, by everything that is sacred): obtestari aliquem (to implore anybody suppliantly, calling upon God as witness; to implore by everything that is dear to him). To implore anybody for anything, voce supplici postulare aliquid; orare multis et supplicibus verbis ut, etc.: exposcere aliquid ab aliquo (of earnest, vehement appeals): to implore help from anybody, aliquem ad or in auxilium implorare; auxilium implorare ab aliquo: to implore the gods for victory, exposcere ab diis victoriam: to implore an end of the pestilence, finem pestilentiae exposcere: to implore the mercy of the gods, exposcere pacem deorum (Justinus, 18, 6): to implore gods and men, deum atque hominum fidem implorare: to implore assistance from a judge, opem petere a judice: humbly to implore anybody, submisse supplicare alicui: to prostrate one’s self at anybody’s feet, and implore him in the humblest terms, prosternere se, et fracto atque humili animo supplicare alicui: the gods were implored, precibus a diis petitum est.