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

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• matter (subs.):
    1. I. Material substance: corpus, ŏris, n.: Lucr. pass.: Cic.: cf. material, adj. (I.).
    2. II. Subject treated by an author or speaker:
      1. 1. mātĕria or -es, ēi: truth is the subject m. of philosophy, sapientiae quasi materia [quam tractet et in qua versetur] subjecta est veritas, Cic. Off. 1, 5, 15: m. for joking, materies ridiculorum, m. ad jocandum, id. de Or. 2, 59, 238: also absol., my m. (for writing about) increases, crescit mihi materies, id. Att. 2, 12, med.
      2. 2. silva (in philos. sense = Gk. ὕλη[**hard to read but prev page is better): subject m. for speaking, s. dicendi, Cic. Or. 3, 12: cf. id. de Or. 3, 26, 102, silva rerum et sententiarum, i. e., the subject m. consisting of facts and sentiments to be illustrated by the orator.
      3. 3. argūmentum (in less precise sense: something to speak or write about): to furnish m. for a letter, dare a. epistolae, Cic. Att. 10, 13, med.: Quint. 5, 10, 9 (= omnis ad scribendum destinata materies).
    3. III. Affair: res, rĕi, f.: Cic.: Caes. (pass.): v. thing.
    4. IV. Concern, trouble: Phr.: what is the m. with you? quid tristis es? Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 2; or more generally, quid est? ib. 3, 2, 25; et pass.: also, quid tibi est, id. Heaut. 2, 4, 24: cf. id. Ad. 5, 5, 2, quid fit? quid agitur? he has something the m. with him, *nonnihil incommodi habet.
    5. V. Importance, consequence: usu. expr. by rēfert, intĕrest: v. foll. art.
    6. VI. Pus:
      1. 1. pus, pūris, n.: described by Cels. as, crassissimum, albidissimum (thick and pale-coloured), Med. 5, 6, 20.
      2. 2. sănies, ēi (thinnish and bloody): Cels. l. c. Full of m., purulentus Cato: Plin.
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• matter (v.): usu. as v. impers.:
      1. 1. rēfert, tŭlit, 3, impers.: the person concerned expr. by prons. meâ, tuâ, suâ, nostrâ, etc.; the degree, by multum, haud multum, magnopere, quid, nihil; also, tanti, quanti, magni, parvi, etc. what does that m. to me, quid id refert mea? Pl. Curc. 3, 25: it m.s little that ..., parvi refert (with inf.), Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7: cf. L. G. § 283. (N.B.--The gen. of person concerned is rare with refert.)
      2. 2. intĕrest, fuit, irr. (usu. denoting a higher degree of concern than refert; also often taking gen. of person to whom: in other respects constr. like that of preced.): what m.s it to him where you are, quid illius i. ubi sis? Cic. Att. 10, 4, ad fin.: Cic.: Liv.
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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• MATTER
1.
  • s. Body, substance extended, corpus.
  • Materials, materia [Vid: MATERIALS].
  • Subject, thing treated, argumentum; quaestio; locus; e.g., magnus locus philosophiaeque proprius (Cic., Div. 2, 1, 3).
  • Affair, business, res; negotium (business): causa (a suit at law, then business, general term): cura (cure of any business or office): an important or weighty matter, res major: a small or trifling matter, res minuta or parva: public matter, publicae res; res publica: to look after his domestic matters, res domesticas dispensare: anything is a difficult or hard matter, aliquid difficile est: to read them is a matter of incredible trouble, in eis legendis incredibilis quaedam molestia exhaurienda est: what is the matter? quid (quidnam) est? quid accidit?
  • Cause, occasion, causa; occasio; materia; ansa.
  • Substance generated in a swelling, pus (white and viscous matter, PROP. so called): sanies (matter mixed with blood, unripe matter): full of matter, purulentus: to turn to matter, to form matter, in pus verti; to ripen matter, pus maturare: to excite or generate matter, pus movere.
2. v. i. e., to import, alicujus momenti esse: if matters much, little, hoc multum, non multum (☞ not parum), magni, parvi refert or interest: that matter s nothing, id nihil refert: that matters everything, in eo omnia vertuntur; hoc caput rei est; inde omnia pendent: it matters, interest, refert (interest with a genitive, denotes the interest which one has in anything; refert, the importance which one attributes to a thing). ☞ Here observe the following rules; (a) the person to whom a thing matters is put in the genitive; but of the personal pronoun we find the ablatives, mea, tua, nostra, vestra; e.g., it matters to me, mea interest or refert [Vid: translator’s note on Zumpt, § 449]. But refert, in the Golden Age, takes only the ablative, never the genitive, of a substantive; frequently, however, interest and refert are used absolutely: (b) that which matters is expressed by an infinitive, or, by circumlocution, with an accusative and infinitive, or by an, quis, quid, ubi, quando, ut, ne, etc.; e.g., multum interest, te venire (Cic.); quid illius interest, ubi sis? (Cic.); illud mea magni interest, te ut videam (Cic.); (c) how much? is expressed sometimes by the adverbs magnopere, magis, maxime, minime, multum, permultum, plurimum, nihil, etc.: sometimes by a genitive of value; as, magni, permagni, parvi, pluris, tanti, quanti, etc.