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

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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ōrātor: masc nom/voc sg

• ōrātor, ōris, m. [oro, one who speaks].
  1. I. A speaker, orator (very common in all periods and styles of writing): eum (oratorem) puto esse, qui et verbis ad audiendum jucundis et sententiis ad probandum accommodatis uti possit in causis forensibus atque communibus. Hunc ego appello oratorem, eumque esse praeterea instructum voce et actione et lepore quodam volo, Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 213: is orator erit, meā sententiā, hoc tam gravi dignus nomine, qui, quaecunque res inciderit, quae sit dictione explicanda, prudenter et composite et ornate et memoriter dicet cum quādam actionis etiam dignitate, id. ib. 1, 15, 64; id. Or. 19, 61: spernitur orator bonus, horridus miles amatur, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 273 Vahl.): additur orator Cornelius suaviloquenti Ore, id. ap. Cic. Brut. 15, 58 (Ann. v. 304 ib.): oratorem celeriter complexi sumus, i. e. eloquence, id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5.—
    1. B. Esp.
      1. 1. The orator, i. e. Cicero, Lact. 1, 9, 3.—
      2. 2. Title of a treatise by Cicero: Orator, Cic. Fam. 15, 20.—
  2. II. A speaker, spokesman of an errand or embassy: aequom'st eram oratores mittere ad me, donaque, Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 18; cf. id. Most. 5, 2, 21; id. Poen. 1, 2, 145.—Esp., an ambassador charged with an oral message: orator sine pace redit regique refert rem, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 41 Müll. (Ann. v. 211 Vahl.): Aetolos pacem velle de eā re oratores Romam profectos, Cato ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 182 Müll.: oratores populi, summi viri; Ambraciā veniunt huc legati puplice, Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 35: Veientes pacem petitum oratores Romam mittunt, Liv 1, 15: foederum, pacis, belli, induciarum oratores fetiales judicesve sunto, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 21: mittor et Iliacas audax orator ad arces, Ov. M. 13, 196: centum oratores augusta ad moenia regis Ire jubet, Verg. A. 7, 153; Cic. Brut. 14, 55.—
  3. III. One who prays or supplicates for any thing, an entreater, beseecher, suppliant (Plautin.), Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 145; so in the twofold signif. of ambassador and beseecher, id. Stich. 3, 2, 39.
GAF Gaffiot (1)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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ōrātor: masc nom/voc sg

• ōrātŏr, ōris, m. (oro),
1. orateur : Cic. de Or. 1, 64 ; 213, etc. || traité de Cicéron, l'Orator : Cic. Fam. 15, 20 || l'orateur par excellence [Cicéron] : Lact. Inst. 1, 9
2. porte-parole, député, envoyé : Pl. Most. 1142 ; Ter. Haut. 11 ; Cic. Br. 55 ; Leg. 2, 21 ; Liv. 1, 15, 5 || [fig.] intercesseur : Pl. Pœn. 358.
GES Gesner (1)
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Johann Matthias Gesner, Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus (1749). Transcribed by the team of Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann from Heidelberg University; accessed via latin-dict.github.io.
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ōrātor: masc nom/voc sg

ORÂTOR, ôris. m. [ῥήτωρ] Si audimus Catonem apud Quinctil. 12, 1, 1 […]
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FOR Forcellini (1)
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Egidio Forcellini, Totius Latinitatis Lexicon. Digital entries displayed from lexica.linguax.com, maintained by Godmy. All credit belongs to the respective authors and contributors.
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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• orator:
      1. 1. ōrātor: an absolutely perfect o.; o. plenus atque perfectus, Cic. de Or. 1, 13, extr.: omni laude cumulatus o., ib. 1, 6, init.: an accomplished o., o. doctus, ib. 3, 35, 143: to reckon any one among o.s, aliquem in oratorum numero habere, ib. 1, 16, 72: to discourse concerning the function and principles of the o., de officio et ratione oratoris disputare, ib. 1, 18, 82. (N.B.--Rhetor is a Greek teacher of rhetoric.)
      2. 2. (vir) ēlŏquens (a truly eloquent man; a good o.: whereas orator includes good, bad, or indifferent): the paucity of great o.s, eloquentium paucitas, Cic. de Or. 1, 5, 19: incomparably the greatest of o.s, (vir) longe omnium in dicendo gravissimus et eloquentissimus, ib. 1, 11, 47. Phr.: an excellent or admirable o., divinus homo in dicendo, ib. 1, 10, 40; ornatus homo in dicendo et gravis, ib. §42; homo in dicendo acerrimus et copiosissimus (full of fire and eloquence): to be a very great o., summam vim habere dicendi, ib. 1, 20, init.: a perfect born o., unus ad dicendum instructissimus a natura, ib. 3, 8, extr.: to be the first of o.s, principatum eloquentiae tenere, Nep. Att. 5.
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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• ORATOR
orator: dicendi artifex (of a distinguished oration; rarely rhetor in this sense, which denotes rather a teacher of rhetoric, rhetorician). A great, celebrated orator, orator magnus, clarus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) magnus et clarus: orator sane illustris (Cic.): an eloquent orator, orator eloquens et ardens, disertus: a vehement orator, orator acer et incensus, vehemens: an agreeable orator, orator jucundus, suavis, dulcis: a poor or second-rale orator, orator mediocris, malus, vulgaris, infacundus, parum pressus: to be a good orator, aptum esse ad dicendum (Cic.): to be a perfect orator, plenum et perfectum esse oratorem: perfectum esse in dicendo: to be born an orator, a natura ad dicendum instructum esse (Cic., De Or., 3, 8, fin.): to be the first among the orators, primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere; principatum eloquentiae obtinere: to be a great orator, dicendo multum valere: to be no orator, dicendo nihil valere; non aptum esse ad dicendum.