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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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• hesitation:
      1. 1. dŭbĭtātio (doubt): without a moment's h., nulla interposita d., Caes. B. G. 7, 40; sine ulla d., Cic. Clu. 28, init.
      2. 2. haesĭtātio (embarrassment): to cause h., h. afferre, Tac. H. 1, 39: Cic.: v. indecision. Of h. in speaking: Join: dubitatio, haesitatio, tractus verborum, Cic. de Or. 2, 50., init. In latter sense also, haesitantia [linguae], Cic. Ph. 3, 6, 16 (where stammering is meant).
      3. 3. cunctātio (backwardness, slackness): dismissing all h., abjecta omni c., Cic. Off. 1, 21, 72.
      4. 4. relĭgio: v. scruple. Phr.: without any h., haud cunctanter, Liv. (v. hesitatingly); sine scrupulo, Col. 5, 11., init.: to cause h. (difficulty) and perplexity, injicere alicui s. [et quandam dubitationem], Cic. Clu. 28, 76.
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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• HESITATION
  • dubitatio (hesitation in deciding, the hesitation of indecision, undecidedness): haesitatio (doubt, hesitation): cunctatio (a delaying): religio: scrupulus (hesitation from a scruple, doubt of conscience). Without hesitation, non dubitanter; nulla interposita dubitatione; sine ulla dubitatione; haud cunctanter; abjecta omni cunctatione (without delay); confidenter (with confidence); audacter (boldly); sine retractatione (without any drawing back or shrinking; e.g., pro patria vitam profundere, Cic.; also of any flinching from the broad statement of an opinion, sine retractatione libere dicere audere etc.; also with dubitatio; confides igitur et quidem sine ulla dubitatione aut retractatione, Cic., Att., 13, 25; in classical Latin the word is only found in this construction).
  • In speaking, haesitantia linguae (as natural defect): haesitatio (from confusion of mind, etc., also deformis haesitatio, Quint.). To speak without hesitation, volvere verba: to speak distinctly and without hesitation, plane et articulate loqui (Gell., 5, 9, of a dumb person who suddenly recovered the power of speech): a speech delivered without hesitation, oratio fluens or volubiliter fusa: an orator who speaks without hesitation, orator volubilis.