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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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• happiness:
      1. 1. fēlīcĭtas (strictly, luckiness, good-fortune): real (substantial) h., solida f., Plin. 7, 44, 45, fin.: cf. Cic. Ph. 2, 24, 57, si potest ulla esse in scelere f.
      2. 2. usu. better expr. by beātus, beāte: it follows that h. consists in virtue, efficitur honestate una vitam contineri beatam, Cic. Tusc. 5, 15, 44: also in phil. lang. the neut. beatum may be used subs., cf. Cic. l. c. § 45, quid poterit beatum intelligi? all things which tend to h., omnia quae ad beate vivendum ferunt, Cic. Join: bene beateque [vivere], Cic. Par. 1, extr. (N.B.--Beatitas, beatitudo, suggested by Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 95, are very rare in later writers.)
      3. 3. commŏdum, esp. in pl. (interest, advantage, comfort): to seek the h. of one's subjects, eorum quibus praesis commodis [utilitatique] servire, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8. Comp. the use of bona, Virg. G. 2, 458. Phr.: it was my h..., mihi contigit (foll. by infin.), Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 41: v. to happen. See also felicitousness.