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

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Contents (2 entries · 6 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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• observation:
    1. I. The act of observing or taking notice:
      1. 1. observātio: o. of the heavenly bodies, obs. siderum, Cic. Div. 1, 1, 2: things learned by o., quae observatione cognita sunt, ib. 2, 12, init.
      2. 2. nŏtātio (careful marking): Join: notatio [naturae] et animadversio, Cic. Or. 55, 183.
      3. 3. ănĭmadversio (attention): v. supr. (2).
      4. 4. contemplātio (viewing, gazing upon): nothing to interfere with their o. of the heavens, nihil quod contemplationi coeli officere posset, Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93. (Or expr. by verb: to pursue celestial o.s, siderum motus observare to take such o.s astronomically, positus siderum ac spatia dimetiri, Tac. A. 6, 21: to do so in a ceremonial or augural sense, de coelo servare, Cic. Ph. 2, 32, 81: v. to observe.)
    2. II. A remark, esp. of a critical or exegetical kind: observātio: o.s on the ancient dialect, obs. sermonis antiqui, Suet. Gr. extr. See also note.
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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• OBSERVATION
observatio; animadversio (a giving heed, attention); e.g., naturae: a man of quick observation [Vid: OBSERVER]: to make an observation, observare; animadvertere (to observe): experiri (to try, make experiment): to be exposed to the observation of all, in clarissima luce versari: what my own observation supplies, quod animadverti: an army of observation, *copiae ad hostium itinera servanda dispositae: to make astronomical observations, caelum sideraque spectare (caeli siderumque spectator, one who makes such, Liv., 24, 34); motus stellarum observitare (Cic., Div., 1, 1, 2, Orelli [al. observare]), considerare sidera (Gell., 2, 21); positus siderum ac spatia dimetiri (Tac., Ann., 6, 21, 3).