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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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• flatter:
      1. 1. ădūlor, less freq. ădūlo, 1 (usu. with acc.; also dat., esp. in latter writers: strictly, to fawn upon, as a dog): to f. everybody, omnes adulari, Cic.: he f.'d those present, praesentibus adulatus est, Liv. In pass. (rare): we must beware of letting ourselves be f.'d, cavendum est ne nos adulari sinamus, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 91.
      2. 2. assentor, 1 (strictly, to fall in with every thing a man says: cf. Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 21: with dat.): he most opens his ears to flatterers who f.s himself, is assentatoribus patefacit aures suas maxime, qui ipsi sibi a., Cic. Am. 26, 97: to f. with looks, vultu a., Curt.
      3. 3. blandior, 4 (in a winning manner; with fair speeches: with dat.): pleasure sweetly (insinuatingly) f.s our senses, voluptas suaviter sensibus nostris b., Cic. Acad. 2, 45, 139: they openly f. our order, nostro ordini palam blandiuntur, Pl. Cist. 1, 1, 35.
      4. 4. palpor, 1 (strictly, by caressing: with dat.): to f. any one clumsily, alicui male p., Hor. S. 2, 1, 20.
      5. 5. mulceo, 2: v. to soothe. (N.B. The pass. is usu. best expr. by inverting the sentence: he was f.'d by every body, *omnes eum adulabantur, etc.)
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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• FLATTER
1. s. prelum (a press of any kind).
2. v. assentari alicui (to express assent, whether from conviction or from hypocrisy; in opposed to to adversari. It denotes the flattery which shuns contradicting a person, θωπεύειν): blandiri (to say what is agreeable to another, ἀρεσκεύειν; also to endeavor to curry favor by winning ways, marks of affection, etc.): adulari (to endeavor to curry favor at the expense of self-degradation, like κολακεύειν; aliquem, seldom alicui; never in Cic.): aberrare in melius (of a painter; after Plin., Ep., 4, 28, extr.): nimium esse in alicujus laudibus (of an orator praising anybody too highly). To curry favor with anybody by flattering him, assentatiuncula quadam aucupari alicujus gratiam. I flatter myself (parenthetically), quomodo mini persuadeo (Cic., De Or., 2, 8, 122). Don’t suppose that I say this to flatter you, noli putare me hoc auribus tuis dare (Cic.): to flatter one’s self with the hope etc., in eam spem adduci, ut etc.; sperare fore, ut etc. I flatter myself with the hope that, etc., magna me spes tenet with infinitive. To be trained to flattery by long continuance of servitude, diuturna servitute ad nimiam assentationem erudiri. The desire of flattery, assentandi libido (Tac., Hist., 1, 1, 2).