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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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• speech:
    1. I. The faculty of speaking: ōrātio: Cic. Off. 1, 4, 12: deprived of the faculty of s., infans: id. Div. 1, 53, 121. Phr.: to take away the faculty of s., usum linguae adimere, Ov. M. 14, 99: if temporarily, vocem praecludere, cf. ib. 2, 658.
    2. II. Utterance: Phr.: to have great facility of s., volubili esse lingua, Liv. (Kr.): to utter with stammering s., titubante lingua loqui, Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 21.
    3. III. An address, oration:
      1. 1. ōrātio: dimin. ōrātiuncŭla (a short s.): a powerful, polished, admirable s., o. gravis, polita, admirabilis, Cic. de Or. 3, 25: a clever and oratorical s., o. diserta et oratoria, ib. 1, 54, 231: a brilliant s., o. luculenta, Sall. C. 31. The foll. epithets are taken from Kr. (e Cic.): oratio fortis et virilis: compta, polita, composita et ornata: diligenter elaborata, accurate commentata (carefully studied): gravissimis verbis sententiisque plena: accurata et facta quodam modo. To deliver a s., o. habere, Cic. pass.: from MS., o. de scripto dicere, id. Pl. 30, 74: to study a s., o. commentari, id. R. Am. 29, 82.
      2. 2. contio, ōnis, f. (a s. before the people, or to troops): he delivered a s. to the soldiers, c. ad milites habuit, Caes. B. C. 3, 73: in the s. to the people against Catiline, in c. contra Catilinam, Quint. 5, 11, 42. To deliver such a s., contionari: v. to speak (II.).
      3. 3. actio (a legal s. or pleading): thus the speeches against Verres are called actiones, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 30, 75, etc.: Suet.: Quint. Phr.: to make a s., verba facere, Caes. B. G. 2, 14: to wind up a s., finish it, perorare, Cic.
    4. IV. A remark or saying:
      1. 1. verbum: cf. Sall. Jug. 11, fin., quod verbum in pectus Jugurthae altius ... descendit: so, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 95, etc.
      2. 2. vox (esp. a cry or exclamation): cf. Cic. Verr. 5, 65, 168, nihil esse opis in hac voce, civis Romanus sum.
      3. 3. dictum: v. saying.
    5. V. Language used: Phr.: abusive s., maledicta, voces contumeliosae, opprobria, contumelia verborum: v. abuse, insult, reviling.
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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• SPEECH
  • Faculty of speech, vox (voice; general term for pouer of utterance; of beasts or men): oratio (power of expressing one’s thoughts and emotions in articulate speech): lingua (the tongue; also, speech): linguae or sermonis usus. To be without the faculty of speech, mutum esse; orationis expertum esse (not to possess the faculty at all); elinguem esse; linguae usu defectum esse (to be unable to utter any articulate sound): one who has been deprived of the faculty of speech, cui sermonis usus ablatus est: to deprive anybody of the faculty of speech [Vid: “to render SPEECHLESS”]: to lose, recover, the power of speech, linguae usum amittere, recipere (after Ov., Met., 14, 99).
  • Manner of speaking, vox: lingua. An impediment in his speech, linguae haesitantia.
  • An address, harangue, alloquium (address of a persuasive, consolatory, or warning kind: a soft speech, blandum or lene alloquium, Liv.): allocutio (speaking to): appellatio (accosting a man quietly; e.g., to request anything): compellatio (direct address in a speech; rhetorical term): oratio (formal studied speech): concio (address to a popular or military assembly, harangue): sermo (speech of an unpremeditated, conversational kind). A set or studied speech, oratio bene commentata; oratio meditata et composita; oratio apparata or apparata et composita: to make a speech, orationem habere, agere, or dicere (general terms); concionem habere, concionari (to the people, troops, etc.) to make a speech before anybody (i. e., to him), verba facere apud aliquem; to the people, verba facere apud populum: to compose a speech, orationem facere or conficere: to prepare a speech, orationem meditari or commentari: to learn a speech by heart, orationem ediscere: to read a speech, orationem de scripto dicere; orationem recitare (to read anybody’s speech before an audience): an extempore speech, oratio subita et fortuita (opposed to commentatio, a prepared speech): a little speech, oratiuncula: to end a speech, perorare; dicendi finem facere.
  • A thing said, dictum, vox: verbum: Cutting speeches (= sayings, words), verborum aculei: unkind or abusive speeches, maledicta, plur.