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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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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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• ambition:
      1. 1. ambĭtĭo: to be the victim of wretched a., misera a. laborare, Hor.: to be a stranger to all a., ab omni a. remotum esse, Cic.; solutum esse, Hor.. to be the slave of a., ambitione teneri, Cic.: a certain a. led me to the pursuit of honours, me a. quaedam ad honorum studium duxit, Cic.: although a. itself may be a vice, yet it is often the cause of virtues, licet ipsa vitium sit a., tamen frequenter causa virtutum est, Quint.: a wrong a., prava a., Sall.
      2. 2. glōrĭa: a. drags men bound to her glittering car, constrictos g. trahit fulgente curru, Hor.: a. of keeping a good table, (magnae) g. mensae, Lucan: the a. of producing honey, generandi g. mellis, Virg.: and esp. in certain phr.: as, to be led by a., gloriā duci, Cic.; g. expetere, sequi, Cic.: he was swallowed up by a., hunc absorbuit aestus gloriae, Cic.: v. glory. Phr.: blind a., honorum caeca cupido, Lucr.: we are all influenced by a., trahimur omnes laudis studio, Cic.: headlong and hazardous a., cupiditas dominandi praeceps et lubrica, Cic.: induced by the a. of being a king, regia cupiditate inductus, Caes.: inflamed with wicked a., malae dominationis cupidinibus flagrans, Tac.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• AMBITION
ambitio: studium laudis: stndium cupiditasque honorum: cupido honoris or famae: aviditas or avaritia gioriae: aestus quidam gloriae: sitis famae. Sometimes from the context, gloria only may do, alicujus gloriae favere (Cic.). To be impelled by ambition, gloria duci: to be possased, enthralled, etc., by ambition, ambitione teneri: to burn with ambition, ambitione accensum esse or flagrare. He allowed himself to be hurried away by his ambition, eurn absorbuit aestus quidam gloriae: or quasi quidam aestus gloriae abripuit; atque in altum abstraxit.