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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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• soothsayer:
      1. 1. augur, ŭris: v. augur.
      2. 2. auspex, ĭcis: Hor. Od. 3, 27, 8: Cic. Att. 2, 7, 2. (For augur and auspex, v. Dict. Ant. p. 174: the augur or auspex predicted future events from the flight, singing, or feeding of birds.)
      3. 3. hăruspex, ĭcis, (who foretold the future from the inspection of the entrails of victims, whence the term also of exstipex, Cic. Div. 2, 11, 26). A feminine form, hăruspĭca, occurs, Pl. Mil. 1, 3, 98 (hariolae atque haruspicae).
      4. 4. hăriŏlus (often joined with haruspex, and = prophet, seer): Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 55: Plaut.: Ter. Also a fem. hăriŏla, freq. in Plaut.: see also fortune-teller.
      5. 5. sortĭlĕgus: v. fortune-teller.
      6. 6. mĕtōposcŏpus or -os, i (one who told fortunes by examining the forehead, a physiognomist): Suet. Tit. 2: Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 88. Other words less precise are: conjector, conjectrix, dīvīnus, sāga (v. fortune-teller): vātes, vātĭcĭnātor, etc. (v. prophet, prophetess). To act as a s.: (i.) augŭror, 1: Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72: Tac.: v. to augur, predict. (ii.) auspĭcor, 1: Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11: Liv. 27., 16, fin. (iii.) hăriŏlor, 1 (in a contemptuous sense): Cic. Att. 8, 11, 3.
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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• SOOTHSAYER
vates: divinans (an inspired prophet; Cic.): vaticinans (Ov.; very rare = vates): fatidicus (one who foretells the destiny of man; Cic.): fatiloquus (poetical = fatidicus): sortilegus (one who divines by lots; Cic.): haruspex (one who foretells events from the appearance of the entrails of victims): augur (one who foretells from the flight of birds): feminine, vates: mulier fatidica, fatiloqua: interpres divum (Liv.): saga (Cic.).