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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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• touch (subs.): ; touching:
    1. I. The act:
      1. 1. tactus, ūs: lute-strings answer to every t., chordae ad quemque t. respondent, Cic. de Or. 3, 57, 216: a slight t., levis t., Ov. Met. 4, 180. The sense of t., t., Cic. N. D. 2., 56, 141.
      2. 2. tactio (as verbal subs. with acc.): quid tibi hanc digito tactio est, Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 29. The sense of t., t., Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 20.
    2. II. Contact:
      1. 1. contāgio: Cic. Div. 1, 30, 63.
      2. 2. contactus, ūs: Virg.: Plin.
      3. 3. contāges, is, f.: Lucr.
      4. 4. contāgium: Lucr.: Plin.
      5. 5. attactus, ūs (only in abl. sing.): Ov. Met. 14, 414: Virg.
      6. 6. stringor: the t. of cold water, s. gelidae aquaï, Lucr. 3, 693.
    3. III. T. t. in Art: perh. pēnĭcillus, cf. Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15. [N.B.--T. used metaph. for delicate or subtle marks of character or quality must generally be expr. by subtilis or some other adj. according to the context.] Phr.: the finishing t., manus extrema, Cic. Brut. 33, 126: v. stroke.
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• touch (v.):
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. tango, tĕtĭgi, tactum, 3: to t. the ground with the knee, t. genu terram, Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57: she t.'d their faces with a wand, ora virga t., Ov. Met. 14, 413. Of food: wolves did not t. the bodies, corpora non t. lupi, Ov. Met. 7, 550: Plaut. [v. taste].
      2. 2. attingo, tĭgi, tactum, 3: before the battering ram had t.'d the wall, priusquam aries murum attigisset, Caes. B. G. 2, 32: (no one) has t.'d a fraction of my booty, de praeda mea (nemo) teruncium a., Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 4.
      3. 3. contingo, 3: the moon almost t.ing the earth, luna terram paene c., id. Div. 2, 41, 91: v. reach, seize.
      4. 4. attrecto, 1, contrecto, 1: v. handle.
      5. 5. affĭcio, 3: v. affect. Not to t., abstĭneo (with refl. pron. and abl.), Cic.: v. abstain. To t. lightly, lībo, 1 (poet.), Ov. A. A. 1, 577.
    2. II. Fig.: to affect mentally:
      1. 1. tango, 3: to t. the heart by a complaint, cor t. querela, Hor. A. P. 98: Cic.: Liv.
      2. 2. attingo, 3: Lucr.: Cic.: Liv.: v. affect.
      3. 3. affĭcio, fēci, fectum: Cic.: v. affect.
      4. 4. mŏveo, mōvi, mōtum, 2: v. move.
      5. 5. flecto, xi, xum, 3: v. bend, soften.
      6. 6. stringo, nxi, ctum, 3: the spectacle of filial piety t.'d his heart, animum patriae s. pietatis imago, Virg. Aen. 9, 294. Phr.: to t., t. nearly, any one's honour or character, violare alicujus existimationem, Cic. Fam. 13, 73.
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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• TOUCH
1. s. tactio: tactus (act of touching): contagio (contact, in good or bad sense; hence also = contagion). ☞ Not contagium in classical prose.
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  • v. PROP., tangere: attingere: attrectare: contractare (to feel, handle): manus afferre alicui rei (to lay hands upon, to attack violently; e.g., alienis bonis): invadere aliquem or aliquid, irruere in aliquid (to attack): violare aliquid (to destroy). Not to touch anything (i. e., to abstain from), aliquid non tangere, or non attingere: sese abstinere re: to touch not a fraction of the booty, de praeda nec teruncium attingere.
  • Figuratively, To affect, hurt, Vid: To touch the honor or character of anybody, detrahere de fama alicujus: violare alicujus existimationem: impugnare alicujus dignitatem. TOUCH AT A PORT, *(ad) portum adire. ☞ Portum tangere (Verg., Aen.,: 4, 612) = “to arrive at, reach a port.” TOUCH UPON,
  • PROP., tangere: attingere: contingere. [Vid: BORDER.]
  • Figuratively, tangere: attingere: mentionem alicujus rei inchoare (to mention cursorily). To touch upon anything slightly, or with few words, leviter tangere: breviter or strictim attingere: breviter perstringere: paucis percurrere (in passing): leviter in transitu attingere: leviter transire et tantummodo perstringere; with very few words, or very slightly, perquam breviter perstringere atque attingere: primoribus labris gustare, et extremis, ut dicitur, digitis attingere: to touch only on the principal points, rerum summas attingere (opposed to res explicare, to go into detail; Vid: commentators on Nep., Pelop., 1, 1): to touch upon each point separately, singillatim unamquamque rem attingere.