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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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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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• experience (subs.):
      1. 1. ūsus, ūs: a general of no e., nullius u. imperator, Caes.: military e., u. in re militari, Cic.: possessed of such e. (in legal matters), tali usu [atque exercitatione] praeditus, Cic. Clu. 31, 84: great political e., u. in republica rerum maximarum, Cic. Rep. 1, 23.
      2. 2. pĕrītia (knowledge acquired by e.): e. of localities and warfare, locorum et militiae p., Sall.: Tac.: v. sagacity.
      3. 3. expĕrientia (esp. with rerum: in Cic. the act of trying): neither in years or e. equal to such a burden, non aetate neque rerum ex. tantae moli par, Tac. A. 1, 4: a man of long e., vir longa ex., Tac.: Vell.
      4. 4. expr. by expĕrīmentum (an act of trial, an individual experience): esp. in pl.: taught by abundant e., multis ex. eruditus, Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 16: Metellus knew by e. that ..., Metello experimentis cognitum erat (with acc. and inf.): Sall. Jug. 46: precept is of less avail than e., minus valent praecepta quam experimenta, Quint. 2, 5, 15. Phr.: I speak from e., dico expertus in nobis, Cic. (v. foll. art.): your e. during the last 24 years, quae per quatuor et viginti annos passi sitis, Liv. 21, 10, med.: taught by the e. of others, per aliena exempla doctus (R. and A.): I have learned by e., compertum ego habeo, Sall. Cat. 58, init.
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• experience (v.):
      1. 1. expr. by ūsūvĕnit (or usu venit), 4, impers. (with dat. of subject): what could any one e. more afflicting? quid homini potest acerbius usuvenire? Cic. Quint. 15, 19: cf. Att. 7, 26, init.
      2. 2. expĕrior, pertus, 4 (to make trial): I very often e. in my own case that ..., in me ipso saepissime experior ut ..., Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121: believe one who has e.d it, experto crede, Virg.
      3. 3. pătior, ssus, 3 (suffering): much did he e. in war, multa bello passus (est), Virg.: Liv. (v. preced. art., fin.): v. to suffer.
      4. 4. cognosco, nōvi, nĭtum, 3 (to find out by experience): v. to learn. Phr.: the following year he e.d a severe domestic affliction, sequens annus gravi vulnere animum domumque (ejus) afflixit, Tac. Agr. 7: I do not believe that Scipio has e.d any evil, nil mali Scipioni accidisse puto, Cic.: v. to happen.
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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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• EXPERIENCE
1. usus: usus rerum (☞ experientia unclassical in this sense; Cels., praef.). Sometimes prudentia (the cautious judgement, such as experience would give). From experience, re doctus (Cic., Fam., 13, 5, 1); expertus; usu doctus (Caes.): by or from one’s own experience, expertus; expertus in se (e.g., illud tibi expertus promitto: omnia, quae dico, dico expertus in nobis, Cic., Planc., 9, 22). Experience in the management of political affairs, usus reipublicae; great, usus in republica rerum maximarum: military experience, in castris usus: experience in nautical affairs, scientia atque usus rerum nauticarum: a man of great experience, vir plurimo rerum usu, or magno usu praeditus, or (Caes.) usu atque exercitatione praeditus; vir usu et prudentia praestans; vir multis experimentis eruditus (Plin., Ep., 1, 5, 16): to have had great military experience, magnum in re militari usum habere (Caes.); magnum in castris usum habere (Liv.): having had no military experience, nullo (etiam nunc) usu rei militaris percepto (Caes.): to be considered a general of no experience, nullius usus imperatorem haberi (Caes.): to have had no great (military) experience, non magnum rei militaris usum habuisse (Caes.): to be gaining experience, usum consequi: to have or possess experience, usum babere; usu praeditum or imbutum esse; aetate et usu doctum esse; in anything, usum alicujus rei percepisse; great experience in anything, magnum usum habere in re: great and varied experience, multarum rerum usum habere: to know by or from experience, expertum scire (☞ experientia edoctum scire not good); experientia didicisse; usu cognitum habere (aliquid): which I know from experience, quod me docuit usus; *quod scio expertus in me (from personal experience of it in my own case): to know from long experience, cognitum habere observatione diuturna (after Cic., de Divin., 2, 12, 28): what they have learned from books, I have learned from experience in the field, quae illi litteris, ea ego militando didici (Sall., Jug., 85, 13): to know anything more from experience than from books, experiendo magis quam discendo cognovisse: it is very difficult to form an opinion without experience, judicare difficile est sane nisi expertum. I speak (i. e., in a letter) from experience, expertus scribo, quae scribo: I can recommend this method of cultivation from experience, hunc ordinem culturae experti comprobavimus: I have had personal experience of etc., in me ipso expertus sum, ut etc.: I answer according to my own experience, id respondeo, quod animadverti: taught by the experience of others, per aliena exempla doctus; per aliena experimenta doctus (Tac., Agr., 19, 1): a very careful person of great experience, experientissimus ac diligentissimus (e.g., arator): experience has taught, experimentis cognitum est (Tac., Ann., 12, 14, 2); usus docuit (e.g., id verum esse, Sall.): anything of which we have had experience, aliquid expertum (passive) perspectumque (Cic., Balb., 6, 16). Many lessons are taught us by experience, dies multa affert.
2. v. usu discere or cognoscere; usu cognitum habere; usu aliquid mihi venit (to know by experience): experiri aliquid (e.g., to have experience of it, alicujus amorem, taciturnitatem, etc.): sentire (to feel; e.g., famem, voluptatem): evenit alicui aliquid (happens to him).