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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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• feign:
      1. 1. fingo, nxi, ctum, 3 (usu. trans., and foll. by acc.): to f. friendship for the sake of expediency, utilitatis causa f. amicitiam, Cic.: to wear a f.'d countenance (conceal feeling), f. vultum, Caes. B. G. 1, 39, med.: oftener of the action of fancy or imagination: v. to imagine.
      2. 2. confingo, 3 (usu. to fabricate, concoct): to f. tears, lacrimas c., Ter. And. 3, 3, 26.
      3. 3. sĭmŭlo, 1 (to pretend something which is not): he had f.'d to be setting out for Tarentum, ille se Tarentum proficisci simularat, Cic.: to promise surrender and afterwards f. fear, polliceri deditionem ac deinde metum s., Sall. Jug. 36. In pregnant sense: those who f. the saint and act the rake, qui Curios s. et Bacchanalia vivunt, Juv. 2, 3. Less freq. (except in Pl. Ter.) is the comp. assĭmŭlo: he f.'d to be in love, amare assimulavit, Pl.: also foll. by quasi and subj., Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 8.
      4. 4. dissĭmŭlo, 1 (to pretend that something is not which is; opp. to preced.: cf. Sall. Cat. 5, simulator ac dissimulator): to f. freedom from fear, metum d., Tac.: I will f. not to see these people, dissimulabo hos quasi non videam, Pl. Mil. 4, 2, 2: the acc. and inf. is more usual, though less vivid, Cic. Att. 8, 1, fin.: Pl.
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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• FEIGN
fingere: confingere (to compose or make up anything that is not true): comminisci (to invent anything that is not true): simulare, or assimulare, or, if an adjective follows as object, assimulare se; all either with accusative of the object, or with accusative and infinitive, or with quasi and subjunctive, as in the following examples (to pretend anything to be, although it is not; e.g., Liv., 1, 9; dissimulare being to conceal what really is). To feign that one is ill, simulare aegrum; assimulare se aegrum; simulare valetudinem (to pretend to be ill, without being so in reality): to understand well the art of feigning, artificio simulationis eruditum esse: to feign to be learned, simulare se doctum esse; simulare doctrinam: to feign to be happy, assimulare se laetum, or hilaritatem fingere: I will feign to be going out, simulabo or assimulabo, quasi exeam: I shall feign not to see them, and that they are not here, dissimulo, hos quasi non videam neque adesse hic.