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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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• covet:
      1. 1. concŭpisco, pīvi, pītum, 3: to c. pictures, statues, etc.: tabulas, signa c., Cic.: strengthened with intemperanter, Nep.; but used also in good sense, as to c. a man's glorious death, mortem alicujus gloriosam c., Cic.
      2. 2. cŭpio, gestio, dēsīdĕro: v. to desire, long for. (N.B.--None of the above have necessarily a bad sense.)
      3. 3. In absolute sense, = to indulge a covetous desire: *pravas cupiditates alere (Schleusner), *malam concupiscentiam habere (Schöttgen).
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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• COVET
appetere (to desire): cupere: concupiscere: cupidum, avidum esse alicujus rei (to desire anything violently): desiderare (to long after or for anything; especially what one misses): optare (to wish): expetere: affectare (to strive to get; to be hankering after; opposed to fugere: aspernari): gestire (to express a longing for anything by gestures, with infinitive): ardenter cupere aliquid: cupiditate alicujus rei ardere, flagrare; desiderio alicujus rei magno teneri; sitire aliquid; sitienter expetere aliquid (stronger terms; to thirst after anything): to covet or abhor, appetere aut fugere (refugere): I am coveting anything, concupisco: appeto (both with accusative and infinitive); alicujus rei desiderio capior: appetens sum alicujus rei; cupidus, avidus sum alicujus rei: to covet earnestly, omni cogitatione ferri ad aliquid: to lay one’s hands on a coveted possession, grassari in possessionem alicujus rei (Liv. 6, 5).