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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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• inheritance:
      1. 1. hērēdĭtas (the condition of a heres; also, the property coming to such): i. is succession to the entire rights enjoyed by one deceased, h. est successio in universum jus quod defunctus habuit, Gai. Dig. 50, 16, 24: to come to any one by i., hereditate alicui venire, Cic. Inv. 1, 45, 84; obvenire, Varr. R. R. 1, 12, med.: Plin.: to receive an i., capere h. ab aliquo, Cic. Caec. 35, 102; consequi, Nep. Att. 21: to enter on possession of an i., h. adire, Cic. Ph. 2, 16, extr. (the legal act was cretio: v. Dict. Ant. s. v. heres): you say I receive no i.s, hereditates mihi venire negasti, Cic. l. c. init.
      2. 2. successio (hereditary succession): v. to inherit. Phr.: as an inheritance, may be expr. by hereditarius: cf. Liv. 21, 3, hereditarii sint relicti exercitus nostri, left as an inheritance: v. hereditary.