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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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• gallows:
      1. 1. perh. pătĭbŭlum (strictly a fork-shaped instrument of punishment, to which base defaulters were fastened): the term was freq. applied to the cross of Christ in Med. Lat.: cf. Cic. Verr. 4, 41: or,
      2. 2. furca (like preced.): sentence to the g., damnatio ad furcam, Callist. Dig. 48, 19, 27, init.: to fasten on the gallows, furcâ figere, Dig. l. c. § 15: in furca suspendere, Ulp. Dig. 48, 13, 6, init.: v. to hang.
      3. 3. crux, crŭcis, f. (which did not materially differ from the preceding): v. cross. (N.B.--The ancient Romans used for the same purpose a barren tree: thou shalt cover his head and hang him upon a g., caput obnubito, infelici arbori reste suspendito, Liv. 1, 26.)
      4. 4. by meton, suspendium: may the gods bring me to the g., utinam me divi adaxint (= adigant) ad suspendium, Pl. Aul. 1, 1, 11: he died on the g., *suspendio interfectus est: v. hanging.
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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• GALLOWS
*catasta ad supplicium exstructa. ☞ The ancients used to hang criminals on a tree that bore no fruit, arbor infelix; hence to hang a person on the gallows, aliquem arbore infelici suspendere. ☞ Patibulum, which the moderns incorrectly translate gallows, was a forked piece of wood on which criminals were crucified. A gallows-bird (as a term of reproach), furcifer: crux: patibulum: career (comedy; Vid: Ruhnken, Ter., Phorm., 2, 3, 26).