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

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Contents (2 entries · 4 senses)
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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• destitution:
      1. 1. ĕgestas (a condition involving disgrace; as in the case of one who has wasted his substance): that poverty, or rather d. and beggary, ista paupertas vel potius e. ac mendicitas, Cic.: to live in d., vitam degere in e., Cic.
      2. 2. ĭnŏpia (any want or scarcity): d. on the part of the Rhodians, Rhodiorum in., Cic.: to sink into shameful d., ad pudendam in. delabi, Tac.: to bring any one to d., in. alicui facere (afferre), Tac.: v. want.
      3. 3. mendīcĭtas: v. beggary.
      4. 4. sōlĭtūdo (of those who are left without any helper or supporter): Cic. (N.B. Not destitutio, which is disappointment, abandonment.)
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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• DESTITUTION
inopia (want of resources): egestas: mendicitas (extreme poverty; beggary): solitudo (the stale of being left alone; also solitudo alicujus rei). (The words are found in this connection and order.) solitudo atque inopia; viduitas ac solitudo. To be reduced to destitution, *ad mendicitatem redigi; ad pudendam paupertatem delabi: to reduce a man to destitution, aliquem omnibus bonis*evertere; ad rerum omnium inopiam redigere: ☞ destitutio (rare; Cic.) is the “leaving in the lurch,” “desertion.