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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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• poverty:
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. paupertas (poor or humble circumstances): p. or rather destitution and beggary, p. vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Par. 6, 1, extr.: also sometimes = egestas: Cic. Div. 1, 17, 31 (quum propter paupertatem sues pasceret): Juv.
      2. 2. paupĕries, ēi, f. (poet. for preced.): to bear pinching p., angustam p. pati, Hor. Od. 3, 2, 1: called also, p. importuna, ib. 3, 16, 37; dura, ib. 4, 9, 49: Ter.
      3. 3. ĕgestas (indigence): v. supr. (1).
      4. 4. ĭnŏpia: v. want.
      5. 5. (poet.) res angusta domi: Juv. 3, 165.
    2. II. Poorness, inadequacy:
      1. 1. ĕgestas: p. of our native tongue, patrii sermonis e., Lucr. 1, 832: p. of soul, e. animi, Cic. in Pis. 11, init. (Better not paupertas in this sense; though Quint. has, p. sermonis, Inst. 8, 3, 33.)
      2. 2. ĭnŏpia: Join: inopia et jejunitas (in a speaker): Cic. Br. 55, 202. Or expr. by inops: he complains of the p. of the language, *de lingua queritur ut inopi ac minime locupleti: cf. Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10. See also meagreness.