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

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Contents (2 entries · 9 senses)
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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• flight:
    1. I. The motion of flying creatures:
      1. 1. vŏlātus, ūs: warned by the f. of an eagle, aquilae admonitus volatu, Cic. Div. 1, 15, 26 (elsewhere Cic. has involatus in same sense, Fam. 6, 6): to be borne in Pegasean f., Pegaseo ferri v., Cat.
      2. 2. lapsus, ūs, (any gliding motion): the f.s and songs of birds, avium lapsus atque cantus, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 99: with swift f. through the sky (of goddesses), celeri per aether l., Val. Fl.: to stay the rapid f. of rivers, rapidos fluminum morari l., Hor.
      3. 3. nīsus, ūs (with effort; soaring f.: poet.): rapid f., rapidus n., Virg. Aen. 11, 852: unwonted f.s, insoliti n., Hor. Od. 4, 4, 8.
    2. II. Escape by fleeing:
      1. 1. fŭga: the soldiers take to f., dant sese in fugam milites, Cic. Verr. 4., 43, 95; simly, in f. se conferre, Cic. Caec. 8, 22; se in f. conjicere, Cic. Coel. 26, 63; f. capere, Caes.; f. facere, Sall.: Liv. (but f. facere is also to cause f., Liv. 1, 56): to put the enemy to f., hostes in f. dare, conjicere, Caes.; vertere, Liv.
      2. 2. effŭgium: v. escape.
    3. III. A large number of birds, etc., flying, no exact word: Virg. has agmen magnum, of ravens, G. 1, 381. A f. of locusts, examen locustarum, Liv.: v. swarm, multitude.
    4. IV. Of stairs: scāla, more freq. pl.: I live up three f.s of stairs, scalis habito tribus, Mart. 1, 117, 8: by a f. of two hundred steps, per ducentos gradus, Mart. 7, 20, 20: the entrance is by a f. of forty steps, per quater denos itur gradus, Ov. Pont. 3, 2, 50: Cic.: v. step.
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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• FLIGHT
  • fuga. To take to flight, se dare, conferre or conjicere in fugam; fugam capere; sese fugae mandare: fugam petere [Vid: To FLY]: to put to flight, fugare; in fugam dare, vertere, convertere, conjicere (the two last, with the notion of eagerness and swiftness); in fugam impellere (Cic., Rabir. perd., 8, 82): profligare (so that he cannot again rally): to be in flight, in fuga esse: to endeavor to escape by flight, fuga (sibi) salutem petere: to escape by flight, ex fuga evadere; fuga se eripere: to cut off anybody’s flight, fugam intercludere; to hinder or stop it, fugam reprimere: to aid the flight of anybody with money, fugam alicujus pecunia sublevare. Flight from anything, fuga alicujus rei: vitatio, devitatio (the avoiding it).
  • A flight of the fancy, *volucer animi motus: to venture on a flight of imagination, omne immensum peragrare mente animoque (Lucr., 1, 74).
  • Flight (of birds), avium volatus.
  • Flock (of birds), grex: agmen (e.g., corvorum, Verg.).
  • Of stairs. To live up three flight of stairs, tribus scalis habitare (Martisalis, 1, 118, 7).