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

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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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• petition (subs.):
    1. I. Generally, a request; esp. as addressed to God: prĕcis, em, e, f.: v. prayer. To offer up p.s, precari: v. to pray.
    2. II. A memorial addressed to a sovereign: lĭbellus: to deliver a p. to any one, l. alicui dare, Cic. Att. 16, 16, A.; l. porrigere (hold it out in the hand), Suet. Aug. 53: more definitely, supplex libellus, Mart. 8, 31: to have the charge of p.s, libellos agere, Tryph. Dig. 20, 5, 12.
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• petition (v.): i. e. to present a written petition: they p.'d the emperor for the recal of the governor, *Principem libello supplice adierunt, rogantes ut ad urbem praefectus revocaretur; they p.'d parliament against his appointment, *ad senatum libellos miserunt, deprecantes ne is magistratui praeficeretur: see also to appeal.
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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• PETITION
1. s. preces (plur., act of asking, or thing asked): rogatus or rogatio (act of asking): supplicium (humble petition, prayer to God; Livy; not Cic., or Caes.): litterae (supplices), libellus (supplex) (a petition drawn up in writing; ☞ Mart., 8, 31, 3): to storm one with petitions, precibus, suppliciis fatigare aliquem: if you grant my petition, *si feceris, quod rogo: to present a petition to anybody, dare alicui libellum (supplicem); supplicare alicui per litteras: to draw up a petition, libellum componere: to sign a petition, libellum subscribere; signare, subnotare libellum (of a minister, etc. who looks over the petitions presented to a prince, and writes his opinion of them on the margin, to which he signs his name; Vid: Suet., Oct., 1; Plin., Ep., 1, 10, 9).
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  • v. To ask, beg, Vid:
  • To present a written supplication, *petere aliquid per litteras (in order to obtain anything): *litteris deprecari aliquid (in order to evert anything): causam deferre per litteras ad judiceni (accusing before a judge): to petition anybody, libello or scripto adire aliquem: to petition against anything, reclamare alicui rei (to express one’s disapproval of anything): provocare adversus aliquid (to appeal to a higher tribunal against anything; e.g., adversus sententiam, Modestin., Dig., 48, 2, 18; adversus creationem, Papinian., Dig., 26, 7, 39 § 6).
GRG Georges (1)
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Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (8th ed., 1913/1918). Digitized data accessed from latin-dict.github.io and is in the public domain.
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Petition, postulatio (Anbringen, Forderung).
epistula communiter scripta (gemeinschaftliches Bittschreiben).