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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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• flattering:
      1. 1. blandus (bland, fair-speeched): to separate the f. friend from the true, b. amicum a vero secernere, Cic. Am. 25, 95: f. praises, b. laudes, Virg.
      2. 2. ădūlātōrius: Tac.
      3. 3. ădūlans: f. words, a. verba, Plin.: Tert. (N.B.--The adj. may often be attached to the person, rather than to the acts or language: to hate f. words, *adulantium verba odisse: v. preced. art.) Phr.: a f. likeness, *effigies s. imago magis venusta quam vera.
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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• FLATTERING
blandiens: blandus: jucundus: gratus (pleasant, ibid., SYN.): honorificus (honorable). In a flattering manner, blande: per blanditias: flattering words or expressions, voces blandae; blanditiae; assentationes (Cic., Cluent., 13, 36) [SYN. in FLATTERY]: it is very flattering to me, summo honori mihi duco. A flattering likeness, imago alicujus, in qui effingenda artifex in melius aberravit (after Plin., Ep., 4, 28).