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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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• avenge: i. e. to take or obtain satisfaction:
    1. I. For the injured person or thing:
      1. 1. ulciscor, ultus, 3 (the most usu. word: in some forms it is used in a passive sense): with which arms you may a. yourself, quibus armis possis te u., Cic.: to a. one's slaughtered brothers, caesos fratres u., Ov.: to a. one's falling country, cadentem patriam u., Virg. they punished their mother in order to a. their father, patris ulciscendi causa supplicium de matre sumpserunt, Cic.
      2. 2. exsĕquor, sĕcūtus, 3 (prop. with ref. to the offence: v. infr. II.): has my father been killed? I will a. him, pater caesus est? exsequar, Sen.
      3. 3. părento, 1 (prop. to offer sacrifices to the dead; hence only of avenging death; the person whose death is avenged, in dat.): to a. Roman citizens, civibus Romanis p., Caes.: the king must be a.d by the blood of the conspirators, parentandum regi sanguine conjuratorum, Liv.: Ov.
      4. 4. vindĭco, 1 (rare): to a. any one thoroughly, aliquem valde v., Cic.: Tac.: with refl. pron. and prep. ab: I ought to a. myself on him, me ab illo vindicare debeo, Sen.: v. also TO TAKE REVENGE ON.
    2. II. For the offence committed:
      1. 1. ulciscor, 3: Caesar a.d his private wrongs, Caesar privatas injurias ultus est, Caes.: to a. the uncle's death, patrui mortem u., Cic.: also as pass.: let whatever cannot be a.d without shedding the blood of citizens be allowed to have been legally done, quidquid sine sanguine civium ulcisci nequitur, jure factum sit, Sall. Hor.
      2. 2. exsĕquor, 3: to a. the violated rights of gods and men, deorum hominumque violata jura e., Liv.
      3. 3. persĕquor, 3: to a. any one's death, mortem alicujus p., Cic.: Caes.
      4. 4. vindĭco, 1: to a. an evil deed, maleficium v., Cic.: to a. the death of Crassus, necem Crassi v., Ov.
      5. 5. pūnĭo, 4: anger is an eager desire to a. pain, iracundia est cupiditas puniendi doloris, Cic.: v. to punish.--Note. Ulciscor conveys precisely the same notion as the English revenge, vengeance: exsequor and persequor signify to follow a thing up, not to let it rest: vindico denotes rather the assertion of right (v. to claim) than the gratification of a feeling of revenge: punio is usu. = to punish; q. v.
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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• AVENGE
v. ulcisci aliquem or aliquid: vindicare aliquem or aliquid: persequi alicujus poenas, or post-Augustan: exsequi aliquem: poenas capere pro aliquo or alicujus rei: punire aliquid. (The words are found in this connection and order), ulcisci et punire. [For SYN., Vid. REVENGE, s.] To avenge anybody’s death, alicujus mortem (or necem) ulcisci, or vindicare, or persequi: to avenge anybody by the blood of his murderer, alicui or alicujus manibus sanguine alicujus parentare (Herzog, Caes., B.G., 7, 17, extr.). To avenge one’s self on anybody, ulcisei or persequi alicujus injurias; ulcisci aliquem pro acceptis injuriis (never ulcisci aliquem alone in this meaning): vindicare in aliquem; poenas petere or repetere ab aliquo: one’s self on any body for anything, or to avenge a person (by punishing him who wronged him), ulciscf aliquem pro aliqua re or pro aliquo (the person punished in the accusative): vindicare aliquid ab aliquo (to visit anything upon anybody): poenas alicujus or alicujus rei repetere ab aliquo. To go to avenge one’s self upon anybody, aliquem ultum ire: not to avenge one’s self (for anything), aliquid inultum et impunitum dimittere: not to avenge one’s self, injurias acceptas non persequi; injuriam inultam et impunitamdimittere. I will be sure to avenge myself of him, inultum id nunquam a me auferet. I am already sufficiently avenged, satis est mihi supplicii.