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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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1. ăvārus (covetous, in whatsoever degree)
2. sordĭdus (homo)

• miser:

1. ăvārus (covetous, in whatsoever degree): the wide difference between the saving man and the m., quantum discordet parcus avaro, Hor. Ep. 2, 2., 194: but in prose, homo should be added: cf. L. G. § 339, Obs. 2.
2. sordĭdus (homo): such a m., that ..., adeo s. ut ..., Hor. S. 1, 1, 96: cf. Quint. 6, 13, 26 (pro sordido parcum). (Sordidus indicates the mean, dirty ways of the miser; avarus, his eager grasping for pelf.)