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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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• race (subs.):
    1. I. In abstract sense, lineage, descent by birth.
      1. 1. gĕnus, ĕris, n.: born of a noble r., nobili g. natus, Cic. Verr. 5, 70, 180: born of a bad r., malo g. natus, Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 286: born of an ancient r., antiquo g. natus, Nep. Dat. 2: the first man of his town by r. and noble origin, g. et nobilitate sui municipii facile primus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15: meanness of r., ignobilitas generis, id. Mur. 8, 17: meanness of r. and name, humilitas generis ac nominis, Suet. Vesp. 4.
      2. 2. stirps, pis, f.: to be of the same r., ejusdem s. esse, Cic. Rab. Post. 1, 2: of a divine r., s. divinae, Virg. Aen. 5, 711; sprung from a most ancient r., ortus s. antiquissima, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3.
      3. 3. prōgĕnies, ēi, f.: virtue, not r., ought to be looked for, virtutem, non progeniem, quaeri oportet, Cic. Rep. 2, 12, 24.
      4. 4. prōsāpia: a man of very ancient r., homo veteris p. ac multarum imaginum, Sall. J. 85: so, nobilissimus, magnaque et vetere p., Suet. Galb. 2.
    2. II. A particular breed:
      1. 1. gens, tis, f.: v. nation.
      2. 2. gĕnus, ĕris, n. (Gens is a political; genus a natural race: gens consists of families, whom the founder of states has united into a community or complex family; genus consists of species and individuals, that by their common properties belong to one and the same class of beings: Döderl.: genus is therefore usually the better word): the human r., humanum genus, Cic. Am. 5, 20: the Roman r., Romanum g., id. Phil. 4, 5, 13: the Italian r., Italicum g., Sall. J. 47: the Caucasian r., *Caucasium g.: the Negro r., *Aethiopicum g.: various r.s of beasts, varia g. bestiarum, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 99: the r. of fishes, piscium g., Hor. Od. 1, 2, 9.
      3. 3. prōles, is, f.: that r. of future men, p. illa futurorum hominum, Cic. Rep. 6, 21: the Ausonian r., p. Ausonia, Virg. Aen. 4, 236.
      4. 4. nōmen, ĭnis, n.: the Latin r., nomen Latinum, Liv.: Cic.: the Roman r. seemed to all to be destroyed, deletum omnibus videbatur n. Romanum, Liv. 23, 6.
      5. 5. sanguis, ĭnis, m. (poet.): the Trojan r., Trojanus s., Virg. Aen. 1, 19: the founder of our r., nostri sanguinis auctor, Ov. M. 13, 142.
      6. 6. sēmen, ĭnis, n. (meton.: a figurative and rhetorical expr.): genus ac s., Cic. Agr. 2, 35: sprung from a royal r., regio s. ortus, Liv. 1, 47.
      7. 7. propāgo, ĭnis, f. (poet.): the Roman r., Romana p., Virg. Aen. 6, 871 (with ŏ). (Stirps, genus, and gens, denote the race usually in an ascending line, as abstract and collective terms for majores; whereas progenies, propago, proles, denote a descending line, as abstract and collective terms for posteri. Prosapia is an antiquated solemn expression, and only to be used of ancient noble families; progenies, a select elevated expression; proles, a poetical word. Döderl.) Phr.: to be proud of one's ancient r., tumere alto stemmate, Juv. 8, 40.
    3. III. Fig.: a collection of persons having something in common:
      1. 1. gĕnus: the r. of poets, g. vatum, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 102.
      2. 2. nātio, ōnis, f.: the r. of Epicureans, n. Epicureorum (vestra natio), Cic. N. D. 2, 29, 73: the r. of busybodies, n. ardelionum, Phaedr. 2, 5, 1. Phr.: O imitators, a servile r., O imitatores, servum pecus, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 19.