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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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• talk (subs.):
      1. 1. sermo, ōnis, m. (used both in sing. and pl. in nearly all senses of the Eng. word): every-day t., s. quotidianus, Cic. Fam. 1, 1, 2: silly childish t., s. stultus, puerilis, id. Fam. 3, 10, 5: sprightly t., s. facetus, id. de Or. 1, 8, 32: confidential talk, sermonis communicatio (cum aliquo), id. Att. 1, 17, 6: a very ungentlemanly kind of talk, genus s. minime liberale, id. Fam. 3, 8, 5: common t., vulgi s., id. Rep. 6, 23: the t. of the town, pervagatus civitatis s., id. Mil. 12, 33: to try to get into t. with, s. quaerere, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 10: to introduce light t., delicatum s. inferre, Cic. Off. 1, 40, 144: they spoke of many things in various t., multo inter sese vario sermone serebant, Virg. Aen. 6, 160: miscellaneous t., passing from one subject to another, s. varius, aliunde alio transiliens, Sen. Ep. 64, 2: to spend the day in t., diem sermone terere, Pl. Trin. 3, 3, 68: much t. till late in the day, multus s. in multum diem, Cic. Att. 13, 9, ad init.: to prolong the t., s. producere, id. Rep. 6, 10 to have a rather long t., longiorem s. instituere, Caes. B. G. 5, 37: the t. flags, s. friget, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 11 there is a t., manat s., Cic. Clu. 27, 73: to be the common t., esse in ore, in sermone omnium, id. Phil. 10, 7, 14: to become the t., in sermones hominum venire, id. Verr. 4, 7, 13: in sermonem incidere, id. Fam. 9, 3, 1: he is now the sole subject of t. through the city, nunc per urbem solus s. est omnibus, Pl. Ps. 1, 5, 4: it is the universal t. of Asia, s. est tota Asia dissipatus, Cic. Flac. 6, 14: to give a handle to t., dare sermonis ansas, id. Sest. 10, 22: to give occasion to t., dare sermonem, id. Fam. 9, 3, 1; praebere, Tac. H. 4, 4: to supply matter for t., dare materiam sermonum, id. Q., Fr. 1, 2, 1, § 3: to give rise to all kinds of t., varios s. excitare, id. Fam. 8, 10, 2: I have never provoked this t., but I have not done much to check it, hos sermones lacessivi nunquam sed non valde repressi, id. ib. 3, 8, 7 to be well abused in common t., sermonibus omnium vapulare, id. Att. 2, 14, ad init.: to escape common t., effugere s., id. Coel. 16, 38: to silence common t., retundere s., id. Fam. 8, 6, 1: the t. having died away, refrigerato sermone, id. ib. 3, 8, 1: to "stuff the ears of men" with t., aures hominum sermonibus refercire, id. Rab. Post. 14, 40: my chief t. is with books, cum libellis mihi plurimus s. est, Sen. Ep. 67, 2: cf. Cic. Att. 12, 15: v. conversation.
      2. 2. sermunculus (dimin. of preced.: small, petty t.: rare): the common town t. of mischievous persons, urbani malevolorum s., Cic. Deiot. 12, 33: to stifle or silence all the petty t., s. omnem aut restinguere aut sedare, id. Att. 13, 10, ad med.
      3. 3. collŏquium (prop. a t.ing together: esp. a conference). the soldiers had frequent t.s with one another, crebra inter se c. milites habebant, Caes. B. C. 3, 19, ad init.: t. with absent friends (i. e. by letter): colloquia amicorum absentium, Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 7: the t. of birds, c. alitum, Plin. 10, 49, 70: t. with the gods, deorum c., Virg. Aen. 7, 91. Join: congressus c.que, Cic. Phil. 9, 1, 2.
      4. 4. collŏcūtio (a familiar or private conversation): rare: very familiar t., c. familiarissimae, Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5: id. Att. 12. 1, extr. Join: sermones c.que, id. Fam. 1, 9, 4.
      5. 5. lŏquēla (rare, and poet.): wordy t., verbosa l., Catul. 55, 20: the soothing t. of a nurse, blanda nutricis l., Lucr. 5, 230.
      6. 6. garrītus, ūs (chat): Sid. Ep. 3. 6, ad med.: v. chat, gossip.
      7. 7. fābŭla (a story, tale): what a t. I was through the city, per urbem f. quanta fui, Hor. Epod. 11, 8: to avoid t., vitare f., Q. Cic. Pet. Consul. 14, 54: to take down (make notes of) t., f. excipere, Tac. Or. 2, 2: to take part in the t., excipere partem fabulae, Petr. Sat. 42, init.
      8. 8. fāma (report, rumour): there has arisen a t., f. surrexit, Coel. in Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 2: common t., f. vulgi, Cic. Top. 20, 76: there is a common t., f. percrebruit, id. Fam. 10, 10, 1 scarcely has a t. of that suspicion reached my ears, vix ad aures meas istius suspicionis f. pervenit, id. Sull. 4, 12. Join: communi f. atque sermone, id. Flac. 6, 13: v. report, rumour.
      9. 9. verbĭfĭcātio (a t.ing): Caecilius in Don. Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 4 (quid tibi v. est patri?) Phr.: to be all the t., in ore esse, Cic. Am. 1, 2: to become the common t., pervenire in ora vulgi, Catul. 40, 5: everybody makes it their t., in ore est omni populo, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 13: to become the t. of scandal-mongers, incurrere in voculas malevolorum, Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 2: to avoid common t., vitare linguas hominum, id. Fam. 9, 2, 2. to silence common t., linguas retundere, Liv. 33, 31: to court idle t., rumusculos aucupari, Cic. Leg. 3, 16, 35: you think virtue idle t., virtutem verba putas, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 31: idle t., nugae, Pl. Pers. 4, 7, 8. [N.B.--Several compounds are found: coaxing t., blandiloquentia, Poet. in Cic. N. D. 3, 25, extr.: foolish t., stultiloquentia, Pl. Trin. 1, 2, 185: empty t., vaniloquentia, Tac. Ann. 3, 49: but the simple word lŏquentia does not occur, except in the saying recorded in Plin. Ep. 5, 20, aliud esse eloquentiam, aliud loquentiam, t. is one thing, eloquence another: see also Gell. 1, 15, ad fin., for the story of Valerius Probus.]
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• talk (v.):
      1. 1. lŏquor, cūtus, 3 (both neut. and act.): to t. with some one, l. cum aliquo, Cic. Att. 9, 17, ad init.: to t. through the nose, balba de nare l., Pers. 1, 33: the parrot learns to t., psittacus l. discit, Plin. 10, 42, 58: to t. with the fingers, digitis l., Ov. Trist. 2, 453: to become able to t., loquendi facultatem consequi, Cels. 7, 12, 4: let me t. with myself, sine loquar mecum, Sen. Ben. 5, 7, 6: to t. correctly, recte l., Quint. 1, 1, 4: to t. indistinctly, l. incerta voce, id. 1, 1, 21: to t. in another tongue, alia lingua l., Cic. de Or. 2, 14, 61: to t. Greek, Latin, Graece, Latine l., id. Tusc. 1, 8, 15: to t. sweetly, dulce l., Hor. Od. 1, 22, 24: what you and I had t.'d in private about your sister, quae fueramus ego et tu inter nos de sorore locuti, Cic. Att. 5, 1, ad init.: to t. of nothing but fleets and armies, nihil nisi classes l. et exercitus, id. ib. 9, 2, ad fin.: to t. big, magnum l., Hor. A. P. 280. t.ing very grandly, omnia magna loquens, id. Sat. 1, 3, 13: to t. wildly, l. deliramenta, Pl. Am. 2, 2, 64 (73).
      2. 2. sermōcĭnor, 1 (to t. with, converse: rare): to t. earnestly, diligenter s., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 52, 138: t.ing parrots, psittaci sermocinantes, Plin. 10, 42, 58: in ordinary writing or t.ing, in consuetudine scribendi aut sermocinandi, Cic. Inv. 2, 17, 54: (Gell. 17, 2, remarks, that Q. Claudius used consermōnor, and adds, "sermonari rusticius videtur sed rectius").
      3. 3. fābŭlor, 1: to t. together, f. inter sese, Pl. Epid. 2, 2, 55: to t. plainly with you, ut aperte tibi fabuler, Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 49: whilst t.ing, inter fabulandum, Gell. 15, 1, ad med.: they happened to stand t.ing together, stabant forte una fabulantes, id. 19. 13, init.
      4. 4. confābulor, 1 (to converse together: rare): Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 107: Pl.
      5. 5. collŏquor, cūtus, 3 (constr. with cum, inter with pron. refl. or abs.: to hold a conversation or conference): they t.'d much together, multum inter se collocuti sunt, Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 26 to t. by means of letter-writing, per literas c., id. Fam. 1, 7, 1: the generals t. together, imperatores colloquuntur simul, Pl. Am. 1, 1, 69.
      6. 6. garrio, īvi or ii, ītum, 4 (act.: to prate, chatter): t. away, garri modo, Ter. Ph. 3, 2, 11: to t. anything you please, g. quidlibet, Hor. Sat. 1, 9, 13: to t. whatever comes uppermost, garrire quidquid in buccam (sc. venit), Cic. Att. 12, 1, ad fin.: I wished to t. more, cupiebam plura g., id. ib. 6, 2, ad fin.: to t. nonsense, g. nugas, Pl. Aul. 5, 21.
      7. 7. blătĕro, 1 (to t. idly or foolishly: used as an act. verb): why do you t. nonsense? quid blateras? Varr. in Non. 1, 886: Hor. Sat. 2, 7, 35: v. prate, chatter.
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        .: the child will try to t., puer verba effingere conabitur, Quint. 1, 1, 5: to teach a magpie to t., picam docere nostra verba conari, Pers. prol. 9: birds taught to t. Greek and Latin, aves Graeco et Latino sermone dociles, Plin. 10, 42, 59: the raven being soon accustomed to t., corvus mature sermoni assuefactus, id. 10, 43, 60: to t. without any meaning, inani voce sonare, Cic. Fin. 2, 15, 48: to t. nonsense, nugas blatire, Pl. Am. 2, 1, 82: t. away, da te in sermonem, Cic. Att. 13, 23, ad fin.: to t., caedere sermones (an imitation of the Gr. κόπτειν τὰ ῥήματα), Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 1: to t. with him in private, cum eo secreta colloquia serere, Liv. 34, 61: it is pleasant for me to t. with you by letter, jucundus est mihi sermo literarum tuarum, Cic. Fam. 7, 32, ad fin.: he was the first to begin t.ing about that, princeps ejus sermonis ordiendi fuit, id. de Or. 1, 21, 98: to happen to t. about ..., incidere in illum sermonem qui ..., id. Am. 1, 2: they happened to t. of their wives, incidit de uxoribus mentio, Liv. 1, 57: to t. about something else, sermonem alio transferre, Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 133: a thing much t.'d of, res multum agitata sermonibus, Plin. Ep. 6, 19, ad init.: res multum celebrata sermonibus, Liv. 34, 61: to t. much with the men, celebrare juvenes multo sermone, Tib. 1, 6, 17: the deed began to be t.'d of in every place, per omnes locos de facto agitari, Sall. Jug. 30, 1: to t. freely and often of it, id libenter usurpare crebris sermonibus, Cic. Marcel. 2, 5: to be continually t.'d of, in ore vigere, id. Tusc. 1, 49, 116: to come to be t.'d of as a joke, in ora hominum pro ludibrio abire, Liv. 2, 36: we will give them something to t. of, dabimus sermonem iis, Cic. Fam. 9, 3, 1: to t. of murder when drunk, caedem eructare sermonibus, id. Cat. 2, 5, 10.
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• TALK
1. s. sermo (general term, a conversation of several persons on any subject): voces, plur., (loud talk): fama, rumor (fame, report; Vid: REPORT). There is a talk, etc. [Vid: REPORT]. To become the common talk, in sermonem hominum venire; in ora hominum, or vulgi, abire or pervenire: to become the talk of ill-natured people, incurrere in voculas malevolorum: to make anything the talk of the town, per totam urbem rumoribus differre: to be the common talk, or the talk of the town, in sermonem hominum venire (Cic., Verr., 2, 4, 7); esse in ore hominum or vulgi; esse in ore et sermone omnium; omnium sermonibus vapulare: to be the talk of the town for one whole summer, aliquid unam aestatem aures refercit sermonibus.
2. v. loqui: colloqui (rarely fari, which is poetical): fabulari, confabulari (of very familiar conversation). To talk much of anything, sermone aliquid celebrare: crebris sermonibus aliquid usurpare (Cic.): to teach children to talk, parvulos verba edocere (Plin., Paneg., 26): children learn to talk, pueri loqui discunt: when the parrot learns to talk, psittacus cum loqui discit (Plin., 10, 42, 58): birds that learn to talk, aves ad imitandum vocis humanae sonitum dociles (Curt., 8, 9, 16); aves humano sermone vocales (Plin., 10, 51, 72): to talk over anything with anybody, colloqui aliquid cum aliquo, usually colloqui de re (Vid: commentators on Nep., Them., 9, 4): conferre aliquid; consilia conferre de re; communicare cum aliquo de re (to communicate about anything): agere, disceptare cum aliquo de re (to treat, discuss). To talk over, coram conferre aliquid: to talk with the fingers, digitis loqui (Ov., Trist., 2, 453); per digitorum gestum significare aliquid (Vid: Ov., Trist., 5, 10, 36): talking with the fingers, digitorum signa, plur., (Quint.); digiti nostram voluntatem indicautes (Quint.).