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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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• privilege: i. e. peculiar advantage; esp. one enjoyed by legal right:
      1. 1. jus, jūris, n. (gen. term: a la ful claim or right): the p.s of (those having) three children (exemptions given on account of family,) jura trium liberorum, Suet. Gal. 14: more freq. sing. (jus), Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 8: Dig.: v. right, (subs.).
      2. 2. prīvĭlēgium (legal right: not so in Cic., the primary sense being a law aimed at an individual): to enjoy a p. by immemorial usage, p. et vetustissimum morem habere, Plin. Ep. 10, 53 (56): Sen.
      3. 3. bĕnĕfĭcium: esp. in certain phrr., the p. of children (like jus, v. supr.), b. liberorum, Suet. Cl. 15: the p. of (wearing) rings, b. anulorum, Tryph. Dig. 47, 5, 42.
      4. 4. praerŏgātīva (in the way of honour or dignity; late in this sense: strictly, the first vote, or right of voting first): Ulp. Dig. 1, 16, 4 § 5: Plin. Phr.: poets have always had the p. of ..., poetis semper fuit aequa potestas (with gen. of ger.), Hor. A. P. 10: one has the p. of ..., concessum est, permissum est, cf. Quint. 6, 3, 28: it is a great p. to attend the lectures of such a man, *magnum, maximum est talis viri scholis adesse: v. advantage.