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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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• befall:
      1. 1. contingo, tĭgi, tactum, 3 (with dat.: and usu. of what is agreeable to one's wishes): whom so many advantages have so suddenly b.'n, cui tam subito tot contigerunt commoda, Ter.: slavery has often b.'n powerful nations, servitus potentibus populis saepe contigit, Cic.
      2. 2. obtingo, tĭgi, 3: I am glad that that has b.'n you as you desired, istuc tibi ex sententia tua obtigisse laetor, Ter.: Cic.
      3. 3. ēvĕnio: v. to happen, fall out.
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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• BEFALL
accidere; evenire; contingere; obvenire; obtingere (accidere and evenire denote both favorable and unfavorable occurrences; but the accidentia, unexpected, overtaking us by surprise; the evenientia, expected, foreseen: contingere, obvenire, obtingere, are generally confined to fortunate occurrences; the accidentia are fortuitous, the evenientia result from foregoing acts or circumstances; the contingentia are the favors of fortune; theobtingentia and obvenientia are what falls to one’s lot, Döderlein). To bear whatever may befall, quemcunque sors tulerit casum subire.