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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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• expectation:
      1. 1. exspectātio (precisely equiv. to Eng.): hope is the e. of good, fear the e. of evil, spes est ex. boni, mali ex. metus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80: contrary to e., praeter ex., Cic.
      2. 2. spes, ĕi, f. (usu. of what is good: also in gen. sense, esp. in adverb. phr.): e. of pay, s. mercedis, Cic. (v. hope): Metellus, contrary to his e., is welcomed home with the greatest joy, Metellus contra (praeter) spem laetissimis animis excipitur, Sall. Jug. 88: the second e. (of succeeding to an inheritance), secunda s., Tac. A. 1, 8.
      3. 3. ŏpīnio (not necessarily implying futurity: very often in adverb. phr.): I will not disappoint your e., non fallam tuam o., Cic. Fam. 1, 6, fin.: contrary to e., praeter o., Cic.: see also to expect (Phr.).