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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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• brief (adj.).:
      1. 1. brĕvis, e: b. enjoyment, b. fructus, Lucr.: a b. narrative, b. narratio, Cic. I strive to be b., I become obscure, b. esse laboro, obscurus fio, Hor.
      2. 2. angustus: used by Cic. as antithesis to dilatatus, i. e. expanded, diffuse: v. COMPRESSED, concise, terse. Phr.: I will be very b. with you, compendi verba multa faciam tibi, Pl.: to be brief (as parenthetical clause), ne longum sit, Cic.; ne longum faciam, Hor.; ne multa or ne multis, Cic.; quid quaeris, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 8.
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• brief (subs.):
    1. I. A despatch: q. v.
    2. II. An outline of a legal case: causae commentarius; brevis annotatio; libelli: Quint. 10, 7, 30, 31 (where however the expressions mean notes made by the advocate himself). Phr.: to be engaged with one's first b., primam causam s. advocationem agere: he did not get a single b., *nemo omnium eum ad causam suam defendendam advocavit, eum causae suae patronum habuit. he failed over his first b., quam primam suscepit causam, in ea offendit, v. to fail.
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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• BRIEF
1. brevis; angustus, concisus, astrictus, pressus. (The words are found in this connection and order), contractus et astrictus. [SYN. in SHORT]. A brief narration, narratio brevis. To be brief (of a speaker), brevem (opposed to longum) esse; brevitatem adhibere in aliqua re, brevitati servire. Time itself forces me to be brief, breviloquentem me tempus ipsum facit. Be brief with it, in pauca confer, verbo dicas, praecide; id, si potes, verbo expedi. To be brief (make short), in brief, ut in pauca conferam; ne longum faciam; ne longus sim; ut ad pauca redeam; ut paucis dicam; ne multa; ne plura; quid multa? ad summam: ne longum fiat: ne (multis) te morer: de quo ne multa disseram: quid plura? quid quaeris? denique. This is the brief of the thing, haec summa est.
2. s, litterae; diploma.
GRG Georges (1)
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Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (8th ed., 1913/1918). Digitized data accessed from latin-dict.github.io and is in the public domain.
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Brief, litterae (der Brief als Schrift, das Schreiben).
epistula (der Brief als durcheinen Boten übersandtes Schreiben, die Zufertigung, die Zuschrift, das Sendschreiben; dah. Briefe im Ggstz. zu anderen Schriftgattungen nur epistulae).
codicilli (an eine am Orte anwesende oder in der Nähe befindliche Person gerichtetes Handschreiben. ein Billett).
tabellae (die Blätter eines Briefes od. Billetts, meton. für Brief, Billett selbst).
ein kleiner Br., s. Briefchen.
ein B. an jmd, epistula ad alqm scripta od. missa od. bl. epistula od. litterae ad alqm: ein B. über etwas in Versen an jmd., epistula de alqa re versibus scripta ad alqm: ein B. von jmd. an einen, epistula ad alqm scripta od. missa ab alqo; epistula alcis, quam ad alqm scripsit.
einen B. schreiben, s. schreiben no. II: einen B. in ganz gewöhnlichen Worten abfassen, cotidianis verbis texere epistulam: einen B. beantworten, rescribere litteris od. ad litteras (epistulam): litteris od. epistulae respondere: einen B. schließen, epistulam concludere; finem imponere epistulae: mit etwas, epistulam claudere alqā re (z. B. hoc mandato): Briefe mit jmd. wechseln, cum alqo per litteras colloqui od. agere: ich erhalte einen Brief, litterae mihi afferuntur od. ad me perferuntur, von jmd., ab alqo; epistula mihi ab alqo redditur, mit der Nachricht, daß etc., durch folg. Akk. und Infin.
wenn ich darüber B. u. Siegel hätte, si id certius scirem: B. und Siegel auf etwas geben, pro certo affirmare alqd.