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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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• poor:
    1. I. Having little:
      1. 1. pauper, ĕris (in humble circumstances, but not destitute, egens): the servant of a p. master, servus domini p., Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 33: et pass. Plur. and even sing. used absol. (without homo): thou givest horns (strength) to the p. man, cornua addis pauperi, Hor. Od. 3, 22, 18: Ter. Foll. by gen.: p. in gold, p. auri, Hor. S. 2, 3, 142. Very p., perpauper: Cic.: somewhat p. (or as term of commiseration), pauperculus: Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 44:
      2. 2. ĭnops, ŏpis (without means; indigent): v. destitute.
      3. 3. tĕnuis, e (slender, as applied to fortune: also epith. of persons): opp. locuples, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 55, 138: p. and encumbered with debt, t. et obaeratus, Suet. Caes. 46. See also poverty.
    2. II. Meagre; esp. of soil: măcer, exīlis: v. meagre.
    3. III. Inferior: Phr.: the poorer sorts of wines, plebeia vina, Plin. 14, 6, 8 § 69: the wine is extremely p., vina (sunt) deterrima (v. inferior, 2): content with p. fare, tenui contentus cibo, Phaedr. 4, 13., 7: a p. tumbledown cottage, obsoletum tectum, Hor. Od. 2, 10, 6: a p. poet, mediocris poeta, Hor. A. P. 372; or stronger, malus p., Cat. 49: a p. trumpery song, miserum carmen, Virg. E. 3, 27: so dimin. misellus: Pl. Rud. 2, 6, 66.
    4. IV. To be pitied: mĭser: v. wretched. Esp. dimin. misellus: poor little sparrow! miselle passer! Cat. 3, 16. Some other diminutives naturally imply commiseration: as, homunculi, homulli, p. (wretched) mortals: Sulp. in Cic. Fam. 4, 5, med.: Lucr. 3, 927 (brevis hic est fructus homullis! short-lived is p. mortals' pleasure!): animula! p. soul! Hadr. in Spart. vit. 25. matercula, p. (dear) mother, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 7.