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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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• family (subs.):
    1. I. The persons composing a household:
      1. 1. fămĭlia (prop. the body of slaves forming the domestic establishment; but in certain phrases the word is equiv. to the English): the head of a f., paterfamilias, or -ae, Cic.: Liv.: so, the female head of a family, materfamilias or -ae, Cic.: Caes. (in these words the declinable part is pater or mater: but the gen. pl. of familia is also used).
      2. 2. dŏmus, ūs, f. (by meton.): our whole f. salutes you, d. te nostra tota salutat, Cic.: many noble f.s were put in mourning, multae et clarae lugubres domus, Liv. 3, 32. Phr.: with one's wife and f., cum conjuge et liberis, Cic.: v. CHILDREN, household.
    2. II. All who descend from a common ancestor:
      1. 1. fămĭlia (denoting the different branches of a gens, and implying blood relationship between the individual members): the f.s of the Laelii and the Mucii, Laeliorum et Muciorum familiae, Cic.: belonging to a most noble f., nobilissima in f. natus, Cic.: Sall.
      2. 2. cognātio (in wide sense; connexion by blood or race): tribes and f.s of men, tribus cognationesque hominum, Caes.: one's whole f., tota cognatio, Cic.
      3. 3. gens, gentis, f. (a political term: not necessarily implying blood relationship): L. Tarquitius of patrician f., L. T. patriciae gentis, Liv.: the f. of the Tarquinii, gens Tarquiniorum, Cic.
    3. III. Descent, esp. honourable descent: Phr.: to be of a good, very high f., honesto, summo loco natum esse, Cic.: Liv.: of a very low f., infimo loco natus, Cic.: of an equestrian f., equestri loco natus, Cic.: Cornelius Tuscus, of a distinguished f., Cor. Tuscus, claris natalibus, Tac.: a woman of high f., mulier natalibus clara, Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 8: a man of no f., homo sine gente, Hor. S. 2, 5, 15: a man of ancient f., homo veteris prosapiae, Sall.: v. lineage.