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

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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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• some (adj.):
      1. 1. ălĭqui, ălĭqua, ălĭquod (the forms aliquis and aliquid for the most part being used substantively: aliqui, etc., is always emphatic and opposed either expressly or impliedly to such words as all, much, none, etc.): from this people is chosen s. leader or other, ex hoc populo deligitur aliqui dux., Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68: s. war or other, aliquod bellum, Caes.: see also any (2). Sometimes for aliqui, aliquis is used: e. g., in whose way some hardship or other has been put, quibus est aliquis objectus labos, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6: cf. gravis aliquis casus, Cic. Am. 22, 84. [N.B.--With numerals, aliqui, as Gr. τις, expresses an indefinite number, and is = about: s. (or about) twenty days, aliquos viginti dies, Pl. Men. 5, 5, 47: s. five leaves, aliqua folia quinque, Cato R. R. 156, ad init.: v. about (B.)]
      2. 2. ălĭquipiam, ălĭquăpiam, ălĭquodpiam (rare): even if he should be driven out of this city by s. force, etiamsi aliquapiam vi expelleretur ex hac urbe, Cic. Sest. 29, 63.
      3. 3. quispiam., quaepiam, quodpiam (similar to quis, but capable of taking a more independent and emphatic position: usu. with si): what if s. deity hath willed this? quid si hoc voluit quispiam Deus? Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 36.
      4. 4. nonnullus (= considerable, sing., or several, plur.): s. (= considerable) risk, n. periculum, Plaut.: s. (= several) cohorts, n. cohortes, Caes.
      5. 5. ălĭquŏt (a few, indecl., and only used with plur. subs.): s. letters, aliquot epistolae, Cic.: from s. causes, a. de causis, Caes.: s. years before, a. ante annos, Suet.
      6. 6. quīdam, quaedam, quoddam (of a certain person or thing, which one cannot or may not mention by name): s. (= a certain) Gaul, quidam Gallus, Caes.: s. (= certain) subjects of debate, quaedam quaestiones, Cic.: hence occasionally found joined with certus, esp. in Cic. (v. certain).
      7. 7. nescio quis (rare as adj.): v. some (subs. 7): s. eye or other bewitches my tender lambs, nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos (alluding to the supposed power of an evil eye), Virg. E. 3, 103. Phr.: in s. degree, to s. extent, aliquantum, Cic.: aliquatenus, Sen.: Quint.: in s. respect, aliquid (v. somewhat): for s. time (indefinite), aliquamdiu, Cic.: aliquantisper, Plaut.: Ter.: for s. (short) time, paulisper: s. time before, aliquanto ante, Cic.: after s. time, post aliquanto, id.: at s. time or other (past or present), aliquando: to stand you in s. stead, in rem tuam esse, Plaut.: with s. (good) reason, non sine causa, Cic.: s. days before, superioribus diebus, Caes. B. G. 7, 58: it is s. comfort to me, nonnihil me consolatur, Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 2: s. progress has been made, considering the very unhappy position we are in, nonnihil, ut in tantis malis, est profectum, ib. 12, 2, 2. [N.B.--Some may occasionally be rendered (1.) by a diminutive subs.: e. g., s. (little) solace, solatiolum, Cat.: (2.) by a double negative construction: e. g., with s. (considerable) skill, non incallide, Cic.]
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• some (subs.): some one or somebody, something:
      1. 1. ălĭquis, ălĭquid, plur. ălĭqui (fem. sing., and fem. and neutr. plur. not used, for the forms ălĭquae, ălĭqua, properly belong to ălĭqui): it is no fault of yours, if s. have feared you, non tua culpa est, si te aliqui timuerunt, Cic. Marcell. 6, 20, fin. N.B.--In Plaut. and Ter. aliquis is used, like τις in Gr., with a plur. verb: open the door s.body immediately, aperite aliquis actutum ostium, Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 26: cf. Pl. Men. 4, 2, 111: in Virg. once with 2 pers. sing. (exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, Aen. 4, 625): and even the simple quis is simly. used with plur. verb in Pl. Ps. 5, 1, 37 (Simoni me adesse, quis nuntiate). Join: with unus (to denote a single but indefinite person): name s. one or other, unum aliquem nominate, Cic. Clu. 66, 185: with alius: to promise s.thing else, aliquid aliud promittere, Petr.: with adj.: to attempt s.thing great, aliquid magnum invadere, Virg. Aen. 9, 184: with ex, de, or gen. (in partitive sense): s. one of you, aliquis ex vobis, Cic.: s. one of us three, a. de tribus nobis, id.: s. one of their own party, suorum a., id. Hence aliquid with gen. of subs. or adj. is used for the adj. aliqui: e. g., aliquid pugnae (= aliqua pugna), Pl. Capt. 3, 4, 52: aliquid monstri (= aliquod monstrum), Ter. Andr. 1, 5, 15: aliquid virium (= aliquae vires), Cic. Fam. 11, 18, 3: aliquid indefensi (= aliquod indefensum), Liv. 26, 5, ad med. Phr.: to be s.body or s.thing (= of some worth or note), esse aliquis or aliquid: if you would be s.body (in the world), si vis esse aliquid (so the best MSS. for aliquis: Cicero however uses both sum aliquis and sum aliquid in this sense), Juv. S. 1, 74: you would have me be s.body, me velis esse aliquem, Cic. Att. 3, 15, 8: believing himself (to be) s.body, sese aliquem credens, Pers. S. 1, 129: cf. aliquem se putare, Sen.: what you say is, I grant, s.thing, but it by no means includes the whole, est istuc quidem aliquid, sed nequaquam in isto sunt omnia, Cic. Sen. 3, 8: it is s.thing to have been the wife of Jupiter, est aliquid nupsisse Jovi, Ov. F. 6, 27: to say s. (of importance, to the point: Gr. λέγειν τι), Cic. Tusc. 1, 10, 20: to relate to s. (in gramm.), ad aliquid esse, Quint.
      2. 2. nonnulli: s. imagined these stories to have been trumped up, nonnulli haec ficta existimabant, Sall. C. 22: cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 26, med. [For nonnullus, adj., v. some, adj. (4).]
      3. 3. quīdam, quaedam, quiddam: s. one (= a certain one) of the soldiers, quidam ex militibus, Caes.: s. (= certain) of them made their way to the Nervii, quidam ex his ad Nervios pervenerunt, id. With gen.: s. (= certain) good men were slain, quidam bonorum caesi, Tac. A. 1, 49. Also neutr. sing. as subs.: s.thing divine, quiddam divinum, Cic.: so quiddam mali (= quoddam malum), id. Leg. 3, 10, 23. Also quidam ... alii (like alii ... alii), some ... others: s. retired from the city, others committed suicide, excesserunt urbe quidam, alii mortem sibi consciverunt, Liv. 45, 10, extr. [For quidam, adj., v. some, adj. (6).]
      4. 4. nonnēmo (sing. = several): in the senate-house even there are s. enemies, in ipsa curia nonnemo hostis est, Cic. Mur. 39, 84: but in id. Cat. 4, 5, 10, it is = quidam: I see that s. one (= a certain person) is absent, video abesse nonneminem.
      5. 5. quispiam, quaepiam, quidpiam or quippiam (almost = aliquis): s. one of those, quispiam ex iis, Gell. 2, 21, med.: to bring forward to s. people, proferre ad quospiam, Appul. Flor. Often in anticipating objections: e. g., perhaps s. one will say, fortasse dixerit quispiam, Cic. Sen. 3, 8. [For quispiam, adj., v. some, adj. (3).]
      6. 6. ălĭquot (rarely as subs.): s. (= a few) had paid me a visit, a. me adierant, Ter. Andr. 3, 3, 2. [For aliquot, adj., v. some, adj. (5).]
      7. 7. nescio quis (implying uncertainty: somebody, some one or other, I know not who: v. L. G. § 626): s. one or other is speaking here close to me, prope me hic nescio quis loquitur, Pl. Pers. 1, 3, 19: my mind certainly forebodes s.-thing ill, nescio quid profecto mihi animus praesagit mali, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 7. Also in affected ignorance, denoting insignificance or meanness: s. pleader fellow, causidicum nescio quem, Cic. de Or. 1, 46, 202: by the complaints of s. Paconius, whoever he may be, Paconii nescio cujus querelis, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6, 19. [For nescio quis used adjectively, v. some, adj. (7).]
      8. 8. sunt qui (the verb usu. plur. and in pres., with an indefinite and freq. without any expressed subject, but with a relative clause which either defines or takes the place of the subject: lit.: there are those people or things, who or that, etc.: when the rel. clause states a fact, the indic. is used; when a mere conception, contingency or uncertainty, the subj. is employed: cf. Gr. ἔστιν οἵ, etc.): s. have not the courage to say what they feel, sunt qui quod sentiunt non audent dicere, Cic. Off. 1, 24, 84: to s. I seem to be too bitter in satire, sunt quibus in satira videor nimis acer, Hor. S. 2, 1, 1: cf. sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum collegisse juvat, id. Od. 1, 1, 3: there are s. who think death to be the departure of the mind from the body, sunt qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem, Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18. Simly. sunt quidam qui is used.
      9. 9. ălius ... ălius (some ... others): they brought forward, s. purple, others incense, others precious stones, alii purpuram, tus alii, gemmas alii, Cic. Verr. 5, 56, 146. Also alius repeated in a different case, or alius with an adverb in the second place: e. g., living s. in one way, others in another, alius alio more viventes, Sall. C. 6: the cavalry slipped off, s. by one route, others by another, equites alii alia dilapsi sunt, Liv. 44, 43: s. are exposed to danger from one quarter, others from another, aliis aliunde est periculum, Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 19. For other constructions, v. other, another (1). Phr.: as often as you shall have s. one to send a letter by, quoties habebis cui des literas, Cic. Att. 11, 13, 5: there will every day be s. one to send by, *erit quotidie per quem mittas (Ainsw.): I will forego s. of my right, *paulum de jure meo discedam (Ainsw.): there is s.thing in it, non s. haud temere est, freq. in Plaut. and Ter.: cf. non hoc de nihilo est, Ter., and non de nihilo, Liv.: I will be s.thing or nothing, ego ero aut Caesar aut nullus: I must talk of s.thing else, oratio alio demutanda est mea, Pl. Mil. 4, 7, 8.
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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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• SOME
aliquis (any, indefinite): ullus (opposed to nullus, especially after negations): quispiam (nearly = aliquis, but always implies a number, out of which any indifferently may be supposed: mostly used substantively, but not always: si agricola quispiam, etc., Cic.; Vid: the word in SOMEBODY): quidam (a certain one, without specification): aliqui (indefinite): nonnulli, or nonnemo, sing. (in ipsa curia nonnemo hostis est, Cic., several): aliquot (more than one): plerique, complures (some, and, indeed, several or many): often aliquid with genitive; e.g., some indulgence, aliquid veniae. It is some consolation to remember, in aliqua re nonnihil me consolatur cum recordor, etc.: some progress has been made, nonnihil est profectum (Cic.). Some... others, alii... alii; quidam... alii: some... others... others, quidam (alii)... alii... alii (and thus alii mag be used successively five times or more; but Cic. also varies it by partim, etc.; Vid: Cic., N.D., 2, 47, extr.): some in one direction, others in another, alii alio, etc.: some in one manner, others in another, alii aliter, etc.: some few, pauci: some twenty days, aliqui viginti dies: in some measure, aliquo modo; aliqua ex parte (partly); aliquid (in some respect; Vid: Caes., B.G., 1, 40, Held.). ☞ Avoid quadamtenus.