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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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• despatch:
    1. I. To send:
      1. 1. mitto, mīsi, missum, 3: v. to send.
      2. 2. dīmitto, mīsi, missum, 3 (in diff. directions): to d. letters through-out the provinces, literas per omnes provincias d., Caes.: Cic.: Liv.
      3. 3. lēgo, 1 (to send ambassadors): v. to depute.
    2. II. To finish:
      1. 1. absolvo, solvi, sŏlūtum, 3: to d. a great deal in a few (words), multa paucis ab.: Sall.: v. to finish.
      2. 2. confĭcio, perfĭcio: v. to accomplish, complete.
      3. 3. transĭgo, 3: v. to settle.
    3. III. To kill:
      1. 1. confĭcio, 3: that dagger nearly d.'d me, me sica illa paene confecit, Cic.: Suet.
      2. 2. interfĭcio, 3: v. to kill, death, put to.
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• despatch:
    1. I. The act of sending:
      1. 1. missio: Cic.
      2. 2. dīmissio (in diff. directions): Cic.
      3. 3. expr. by part.: after the d. of the letter, post literas tabellario datas: v. to dispatch.
    2. II. The act of finishing:
      1. 1. exsĕcūtio: the d. of business, instituti operis ex., Plin.: Tac.
      2. 2. confectio: Cic.: v. completion.
      3. 3. usu. better expr. by verb: skilled in the d. of business, rerum gerendarum peritus; prompt in the d. of business, in rebus gerendis promptus, Nep.: v. to despatch.
    3. III. Hasty execution:
      1. 1. mātūrĭtas: to beg for d. of punishment, poenae m. precari, Suet.
      2. 2. expr. by mātūro, 1 (to use d.): he thought he ought to use d., maturandum ratus est, Liv. Phr.: there is need of d., mature facto opus est, Sall. See also speed, haste.
    4. IV. An official letter:
      1. 1. lītĕrae, arum, Caes.: Tac.: v. letter.
      2. 2. ĕpistŏla (like the former applicable to any letter): Suet.: Tac.
      3. 3. mandātum: d.s of the emperors (to governors, etc.), m. Principum, Front.
      4. 4. rescriptum (an imperial d. written in answer to a consultation): Plin. Ep.
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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• DESPATCH
  • Send off, mittere (send; e.g., an ambassador, legatum, litteras, etc.): dimittere (several in different directions; proper word of sending off letters, scouts, etc.): (1) if the messengers are to go from person to person, or from place to place, per, or circum, or (Liv.) circa are used; (2) if to a person or nation, ad aliquem; (3) if to a district, in with accusative or ad before the name of a tribe, etc.; (4) in every direction, in omnes partes or quoquoversus. e.g., dimittere nuncios, litteras, etc., circum amicos; circum provincias exercitusque; per omnes provincias; ad Centrones; in finitimas civitates; in eam partem Italiae; in omnes partes; quoquoversus (Caes., B.G., 3, 23, 2): absolvere (to finish a thing; or let a person go whom one has long detained; Plaut.): legare: allegare (to despatch for the execution of a delegated office; e.g., homines nobiles allegat iis, qui peterent, etc., Cic., ; allegarem te ad illos, qui, etc.): to despatch a letter to anybody, mittere or dare litteras ad aliquem (dimittere, if to several in different places).
  • To finish, execute, etc. [Vid: EXECUTE.] To exhort anybody to despatch a business, hortari aliquem ad aliquid perficiendum: to like to despatch a business quickly, consultis facta conjungere. To despatch a business, expedire negotium: conficere or transigere negotium: profligare negotium (Lentul. ap. Cic., Liv.; implying labour and exertion): to despatch anything between themselves, inter se transigere aliquid: the thing may be despatched in a few words, res paucis verbis transigi potest.
  • Kill; Vid: DESPATCH,
  • Act of sending off, dimissio (e.g., nuntii, of a messenger): missio (e.g., litterarum, legatorum, both Cic.); or by circumlocution. Give me my despatch, me absolvito (Plaut.).
  • The execution, etc., of business, exsecutio (post-Augustan, negotii, Tac., ; instituti operis, Plin.): effectio (only in Cic.’s philosophical writings): peractio (Cic., Cato, Maj., 23, extr.). To prevent the despatch of a business, ne res conficiatur, obsistere: about the despatch of what remains to be done, de reliquis rebus maturandis et agendis (Cic.).
  • Haste, speed [Vid:] , celeritas festinatioque: maturatio (Auct., ad Herenn.). There is need of despatch, properato or maturato opus est: the utmost possible despatch, quanta maxima adhiberi potest festinatio.
  • Despatches, litterae: litterae publice missse (from a public officer).