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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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• want (subs.):
      1. 1. pēnūria (a being without, a scarcity), mostly followed by a gen. of the thing needed: w. of food, penuria cibi, Lucr. 5, 1005: of water, aquarum, Sall. J. 17: of good citizens, civium bonorum, Cic. Brut. 1, 2: whether there be abundance or w. of money, copiane sit pecuniae an penuria, Cic. Inv. 2, 39, 115: absolutely, of want, scarcity: to support temporary w., p. temporum sustinere, Col. 9, 14, 17.
      2. 2. ĭnŏpia (resourcelessness, the opposite to opes or copia): w. of money, argenti inopia, Pl. Curc. 2, 3, 55: of corn, frumenti, Sall. J. 91: of remedy, remedii, Tac. A. 13, 57: to compare plenty with w., copias cum inopia conferre, Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24: to supply w., ferre opem inopiae, Pl. Rud. 3, 2, 3: to lessen w., inopiam lenire, Sall. J. 91: a time of w. and famine, inopia et fames, Cic. Off. 3, 12, 50: to support w., i. tolerare, Sall. C. 37.
      3. 3. ĕgestas (extreme w.): poverty or rather extreme w. and beggary, paupertas vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Parad. 6, 1, 45: pressing w., urgens egestas, Virg. G. 1, 146: w. of food (starvation), e. cibi, Tac. A. 6, 23, init.: of pasturage, pabuli, Sall. J. 44.
      4. 4. dēfectus, ūs (want of what has been and is now gone, failure): w. of milk, d. lactis, Plin. 20, 23, 96.
      5. 5. dēfectio: w. of strength, virium, Cic. de Sen. 9, 29.
      6. 6. diffĭcultas (distressing, perplexing w.): w. of money, difficultas nummaria, Cic. Verr. 2, 28, 69: of corn, rei frumentariae, Caes. B. G. 7., 17.
      7. 7. angustiae, arum (straitened circumstances): w. of public money, angustiae pecuniae publicae, Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 4: w. of breath, a. spiritus, Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 181: to fall into w., decidere in angustias, Suet. Claud. 9.
      8. 8. dēsīdĕrium (a feeling of the w., generally of things lost, longing for): the natural w. of food and drink, cibi potionisque desiderium naturale, Liv. 21, 4, med.: v. desire. Phr.: to be in w., egēre: v. to want: to be oppressed by w., inopia affici, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 2: *inopia laborare, premi: to fall into w., in inopiam, difficultates, incidere, delabi, Cic.: in w.: inops, egenus, etc.: v. poor. The want of qualities may be expr. by neg. compds. w. of habit, insolentia: w. of experience, imperitia.