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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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• commission (subs.):
    1. I. Act of committing or doing: expr. by ger. or part. of verbs under commit (II.). Phr.: to be caught in the c. of a crime, deprehendi in manifesto scelere, Cic.
    2. II. Act of intrusting, as a charge or duty: expr. by verb: in the c. of your interests to my protection, *quod res tuas meae fidei commendasti: v. to commend, commit.
    3. III. The business committed or entrusted:
      1. 1. mandātum (usu. in pl.): to perform a c., m. procurare, Cic.: also, m. exsequi, persequi, Cic.: to give any one a c., alicui mandata dare, Cic: to neglect a c., m. negligere, Ov.: an action for the performance of a c., actio mandati, Dig.: Cic.
      2. 2. causa (rare): to whom the senate had in the public behalf given the c. to thank me, cui senatus dederat publice causam (i. e. as a kind of brief), ut mihi gratias ageret, Cic.
    4. IV. A number of persons joined in an office or trust: *ii quibus aliquid exsequendum, peragendum, procurandum, etc., committitur, mandatur, permittitur: to be put in c. (e. g. an office), *procuratoribus committi, etc.: to put a ship into c., *navem instruendam atque ad bellum parandam curare.
    5. V. In commerce: Phr.: to do business on c., negotia procurare, Cic.; *ex mandato negotiari: a c. merchant, *qui ita negotiatur ut ex rerum vendendarum fructibus, ratam portionem (centesimam, quinquagesimam, etc.; i. e. one or two per cent.) ipse sibi percipiat: his commission, merces: v. remuneration.
    6. VI. In the army: Phr.: to hold a c. in the army, militibus, cohorti, etc., praeesse, praepositum esse: v. to command: to get a c. as tribune, tribunum fieri, Hor.
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• commission (v.): i. e. to give a commission to: mando, 1: I do not intend to c. you at all by letter in reference to our affairs, tibi de nostris rebus nihil sum mandaturus per literas, Cic.: also mandata alicui dare: v. supr. (subs.): v. to charge, empower.
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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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• COMMISSION
1.
  • appointment of an officer in the army, *prasfectura militum.
  • A trust or warrant, mandatum (commission or order to deliver any message; either verbally or by writing): negotium (commission to perform anything; instead of which provincia is sometimes used): to give a commission to anybody, alicui negotium dare or mandare; mandare alicui aliquid: to receive a commission mandatum datur mini a aliquo: to execute a commission mandatum exsequi, persequi, conficere, perficere, peragere: execute a commission in the most exact manner, exhaurire mandatum: in a careless manner, negligenter rem mandatam gerere.
  • Act of committing a crime, perhaps patratio: (Velleius, but of concluding a peace: commissio, e.g., piaculi, Arnobius, late: perpetratio, Tert..) better by circumlocution patrare: perpetrare: facere: committere, etc. [Vid: COMMIT]. A sin of commission, peccatum, quod in effectu est (opposed to “sin of omission,” delictum: though Döderlein does not confine delictum to this notion): To issue a commission of bankruptcy against anybody, *recuperatores dare, qui bona alicujus in gratiam creditorum vendant. To have received, or to hold a commission (in the army), perhaps ordines ducere: or praefectura ornari (after Cic., Ep. ad Fam., 7, 5): A ship in commission perhaps *navis omnibus rebus ornata atque instructa: to put a ship in commission navem expedire atque instruere (Vid: Hirt., B. Alex., 25).
  • A body of persons intrusted with an inquest or the decision of a matter, recuperatores; arbitri: to appoint such a commission recuperatores (arbitros) dare: to reject the commission recuperatores rejicere: the decision of a commission judicium recuperatorium: To send to any place a commission of inquiry, mittere, qui praesentia spectent (Tac.): to order a commission of inquiry to be sent, de re praesenti cognosci jubere. Vid: also, COMMITTEE.
2. v. mandata alicui dare: mandare alicui, ut; negotium dare alicui, ut (charge with the execution of anything): to be commissioned with anything, jussus sum facere aliquid: by anybody, mandatum habere a aliquo [Vid: also, among COMMISSION, subst.] : alicui alicujus rei faciendae licentiam dare or permittere (cf: Cic., Verr., 3, 94, 220; Sall., Jug., 103, 2): liberum alicujus rei arbitrium alicui permittere (Liv., 32, 37; both = to authorize anybody, to perform anything: alicujus nomine, in anybody’s name: aliquo auctore, under anybody’s authority, e.g., to do anything, facere aliquid): deferre, demandare alicui aliquid (intrust anybody with the execution of anything, e.g., curam alicujus rei): delegare alicui aliquid (Golden Age, to commission anybody with anything that one ought to perform one’s self; in Silver Age, to commission, in a general sense; Vid :, Herzog, Hirt., B.G., 8, 22).