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

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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• tax, an onomatopee, expressing the sound of blows, Engl. whack: tax tax tergo meo erit: non curo, my back will get whack, whack, Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 12 (Ritschl reads tuxtax).
GAF Gaffiot (1)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
GES Gesner (1)
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Johann Matthias Gesner, Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus (1749). Transcribed by the team of Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann from Heidelberg University; accessed via latin-dict.github.io.
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TAX n. Indecl. [τὰξ] Interiectio percussionem notans: vox a sonitu quem facit, formata. Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 12 Tax tax tergo erit meo, non curo. Tax pax Naeu. ap. Charis.
FOR Forcellini (1)
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Egidio Forcellini, Totius Latinitatis Lexicon. Digital entries displayed from lexica.linguax.com, maintained by Godmy. All credit belongs to the respective authors and contributors.
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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• tax (subs.):
      1. 1. vectīgal, ālis, n. (esp. t. as a source of revenue): a fixed t. in money, v. stipendiarium, Cic. Verr. 3, 6, 12: a t. on the market, v. macelli, Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 56: a t. on urinals, v. urinae, Suet. Vesp. 23: to impose a t., v. imponere, Cic. Fontei. 5, 10; indicere, Suet. Calig. 41: to impose a fixed t. on eatables, pro eduliis v. certum statutumque exigere, id. ib. 40: to impose a new t. on the year's produce of salt, v. novum ex salaria annona statuere, Liv. 29, 37: to superintend, to exact, to pay a t., v. exercere, exigere, pensitare, Cic. Manil. 6, 16: to pay a t. for water, v. pro aqua pendere, id. Agr. 3, 2, 9: to revive obsolete t.s, omissa v. revocare, Suet. Vesp. 16: to relieve of a t., vectigali levare, Cic. Brut. 36, 136; liberare, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9, 26: to lease out the t.s, v. locare, id. Agr. 1. 3. 7: to farm the t.s, v. redimere, Caes. B. G. 1, 18: adj. vectīgālis: money paid by way of t., pecunia v., Cic. Verr. 1, 35, 89.
      2. 2. stīpendium (a fixed t. payable in money): to impose, receive a t.: to refuse to pay a t., s. imponere, capere; de s. recusare, Caes. B. G. 1, 44, ad init.: to free from t.s, s. liberare, id. B. G. 5, 27.
      3. 3. trĭbūtum (a stated payment): to impose a poll-t., in capita singula t. imponere, Caes. B. C. 3, 32: they all pay t.s yearly according to their rating, omnes quotannis ex censu t. conferunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 53, 131: v. tribute.
      4. 4. exactio: a very cruel poll and house-t., acerbissima e. capitum atque ostiorum, Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5: public t.s, publicae e., Asin. Pollio in Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 1: unlawful t.s, e. illicitae, Tac. A. 13, 51.
      5. 5. indictio (the imposition of a t.): a temporary t., i. temporaria, Paul. Dig. 33, 2, 28.
      6. 6. censītio: to lighten the t.s, c. levare, Spart. Pescenn. Nigr. 7, extr.
      7. 7. ŏnus, ŏnĕris, n. (a burden): to lay such heavy t.s on the people, tantum oneris plebi imponere, Cic. Verr. 2, 55, 138: a town subject to very heavy t.s, municipium maximis o. pressum, id. Fam. 13, 7, 2: free from all t.s, ab omni onere immunes, Suet. Claud. 25.
      8. 8. pensio: Aur. Vict. Phr.: (i.) T.s named from particular objects: a t. on bachelors, uxorium (sc. aes), Fest.: a t. on doors (i. e. house-t.), ostiarium, Caes. B. C. 3, 32: a t. on imports or exports, portorium, id. B. G. 1, 18: a pedler's t., portorium circumvectionis, Cic. Att. 2, 16, ad fin.: a t. on pillars, columnarium, id. Att. 13, 6, init.: a t. on public pastures, scriptura, id. Fam. 13, 65: a t. paid by Jews into the imperial treasury, fiscus Judaicus, Suet. Dom. 12. (ii.) T.s expressed by the percentage levied: a t. of one-half per cent., ducentesima, Tac. A. 2, 42: a t. of 1 per cent. on things bought and sold, centesima rerum venalium, id. A. 1, 78: a tax of 2 per cent., of 2-1/2 per cent., quinquagesima, quadragesima, id. A. 13, 51: a t. of 5 per cent., vicesima, Cic. Att. 2, 16: a t. of 10 per cent., decima (decuma), v. tithe. a t. of 12-1/2 per cent., octava, Cod. Justin. 4, 61, 7. a t. of 2 denarii, dinumium, Cod. Theod. 14. 27. 2. (iii.) States free from t.s: immunes civitates, Cic. Verr. 3, 40, 92. Join: immunes et liberi, id. ib. 2, 69, 166: to appoint some one to superintend the t.s, aliquem vectigalibus publicis praeponere, Tac. A. 15, 18: to farm the public t.s, conducere publica, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 77: one who farms the t.s, publicanus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 5, 10: v. farm: a t. collected every 5 years, collatio lustralis, Cod. Theod. 13, tit. 1.
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• tax (v.):
    1. I. To impose a t.: expr. by vectīgal, stipendium imponere, indicere, v. tax (subs.): or by censēre, v. assess. Fig.: onus imponere, v. burden. Phr.: he t.s himself to the utmost, contendit omnes nervos, Cic. Fat. 10, 21: to t. a bill of costs (leg. t. t.), perh. aestimare litem.
    2. II. To upbraid, twit: taxo, 1: he t.s him with his divorce, t. divortium suum, Suet. Dom. 10, ad fin.: v. reproach, charge.
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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1. s. vectigal (general term, especially on land. Particular parts of this were decumae, the tenth of corn; scriptura, the tenth of pasturage; portorium, harbor dues, customs, for which, also, the general term vectigal is used): tributum (poll tax, property tax): stipendium (like tributum, a kind of contribution imposed on conquered people, after a rate of PROP.): vicesima (a twentieth, five per cent.; hereditatum, manumissionum): quadragesima (a fortieth): onera (burdens borne by citizens). A door-tax, ostiarium: to lay or impose a tax on, vectigal, tributum imponere (alicui or alicui rei); tributum indicere alicui (on persons; ☞ not rei): to pay taxes, be tributary, vectigalia pensitare: to pay the taxes, tributa vectigalia pendere: to collect taxes, vectigalia, etc., exigere: a collector of taxes, tax-gatherer, vectigalium exactor: to be a tax-gatherer, vectigalia exercere: to remit taxes for five years, tributum in quinquennium remittere alicui: to petition for a reduction of taxes, magnitudinem onerum deprecari apud aliquem: to exempt from taxes, a tributis vindicare or tributis liberare aliquem: free from taxes, immunis tributorum (opposed to vectigalis).
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  • v. vectigal, tributum imponere alicui or rei: tributum indicere alicui (☞ not rei) [Vid :, also, ASSESS].
  • ImPROP., Nature seems to have taxed her creative powers to the uttermost, natura (in hoc) quid efficere posset, videtur experta.