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

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Contents (3 entries · 12 senses)
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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• grasp (v.):
    1. I. With the hands:
      1. 1. prenso, 1 (strictly frequent. of prehendo, but used of any eager grasping): to g. any one's arms with the hand, p. manu brachia alicujus, Hor. S. 1, 9, 64: they g. the battlements with their right hands, dextris fastigia prensant, Virg. Freq. of g.ing a person's limbs by way of appeal or entreaty: cf. Tac. H. 1, 66, arma, genua, vestigia prensando, flexere militum animos.
      2. 2. prĕhendo, comprĕhendo, 3: v. HOLD (TO TAKE), to seize.
    2. II. Mentally:
      1. 1. complector, xus, 3: to g. anything in thought, aliquid cogitatione [et mente] c., Cic. Or. 2, 8: v. to embrace.
      2. 2. comprĕhendo, di, sum, 3: usu. with cogitatione, mente, animo, Cic.: v. to comprehend.
      3. 3. tĕneo, ui, ntum, 2 (to have g.'d; be in possession of): to g. any one's hidden meaning, reconditos alicujus sensus t., Cic. Sext. 10, init.: Ter. See also to understand.
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• grasp (subs.):
    1. I. Manual:
      1. 1. expr. by mănus, ūs, f.: to wrest anything from any one's g., aliquid alicui de manibus extorquere, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, fin.
      2. 2. expr. by verb; esp. in connexion with manus: thrice the figure escaped my g., ter comprensa manus effugit imago, Virg. Aen. 2. 793: the fleet shade escapes their g., lubrica prensantes effugit umbra manus, Ov. F. 5, 476: v. to grasp.
      3. 3. complexus, ūs: v. embrace.
    2. II. Mental: captus, ūs; ingenii vires: v. capacity.
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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• GRASP
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  • v. To clutch, rapere: arripere aliquid (violently): involare in aliquid (IMPROP., to fly upon anything for the purpose of taking immediate possession of it; e.g., in alienas possessiones): prehendere (to seize upon anything, to hold it): corripere aliquid (to snatch at anything eagerly). To endeavor to grasp anything, aliquid appetere manibus: to grasp anything eagerly, avide arripere aliquid.
  • INTRANS., To grasp at = endeavor to obtain (in a bad sense), affectare (e.g., at empire, regnum, Liv.; so dominationes, Sall., ap. Aug., Civ. Dei, 3, 17; not Cic.): petere: appetere aliquid (to seek to obtain): sectari: consectari (to pursue): aucupari (to lie in wait for an opportunity of seizing anything): manus afferre or adhibere alicui rei (IMPROP.; to stretch out one’s hands for the purpose of taking possession; e.g., vectigalibus; alienis bonis). To grasp at what does not belong to one, alienum appetere (Phaedrus; et alieni appotens, Sall.). To grasp at every, even the emptiest shadow of glory, omnes etiam umbras falsae gloriae consectari (Cic.).
2. s. [Vid. HOLD, s.] ; e.g., to come into anybody’s grasp, in manus alicujus venire: to rescue or snatch anything from anybody’s grasp, aliquid e or ex manibus, or ex faucibus alicujus eripere.