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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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• condescend:
      1. 1. descendo, di, sum: let old men c. to play with youths, senes ad ludum adolescentium descendant, Cic.: to c. to the gains of slave-dealers, ad mangonicos quaestus d., Suet.
      2. 2. dēmitto, mīsi, missum, 3 (with pron. refl.): to c. to flattery, in adulationem se d., Tac.
      3. 3. submitto, 3 (with pron. refl.): those who are superior ought to c. in friendship, ii qui superiores sunt s. se debent in amicitia, Cic.
      4. 4. dignor, 1: v. to deign.
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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• CONDESCEND
descendere, or sua voluntate descendere: to anything, ad aliquid (the proper word): se demittere: to anything, ad or in aliquid: se submittere; to anything, ad or in aliquid: dignari aliquid facere (not Cic., but Catullus, Lucr., Verg., Col. Suet., both positively and negatively). To condescend to play with young men, ad ludum adolescentium descendere (Cic.): to condescend to use all manner of entreaties, descendere in preces omnes: to make money by dealing in slaves, descendere ad mangonicos quaestus (Cic.): to condescend to use flattery, se demittere in adulationem: to servile endurance, se demittere usque ad servilem patientiam (Tac.): to condescend to the abilities of one’s pupils, se submittere ad mensuram discentium (Quint.): in friendship, the superiors ought to condescend, qui superiores sunt summittere se debent in amicitia (Cic.): to condescend to the disgrace of pleading one’s cause as a criminal, summittere se in humilitatem causam dicentium (Liv.): OBS. Sometimes “to condescend” may be translated under a change of form by dignum habere, ducere, judicare aliquem aliqua re: To condescend to invite anybody to dinner, aliquem dignum honore cenae habere: not to condescend even to look at anybody, *aliquem ne aspectu quidem dignum habere.