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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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• nation:
      1. 1. gens, ntis (most gen. and comprehensive term): the great and warlike n. of the Aequians, Aequorum g. magna et ferox, Cic. Rep. 2, 20: belonging to the n. of the Germans, ex g. [numeroque] Germanorum, Caes. B. G. 6, 32: through all n.s and tribes, per omnes g. nationesque, Quint. 11, 3, 87: Cic. Man. 11, 31: cf. id. N. D. 3, 39, 93, where the following gradation is given: singuli homines ... civitates ... nationes et gentes. The pl. gentes sometimes = foreign n.s: cf. Tac. G. 33.
      2. 2. nātio (properly, a tribe forming a people by itself, whether the whole of the race or not: also in gen. sense: cf. Tac. G. 2, fin., where it is stated that the name of a tribe [natio] became ultimately that of the entire race [gens]; also exx. supr.): all (other) n.s can bear slavery: our state cannot, omnes n. servitutem ferre possunt: nostra civitas non potest, Cic. Ph. 10, 10, 20.
      3. 3. pŏpŭlus (a people or organized political community): v. people.
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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• NATION
gens (φῦλον, the most comprehensive term): natio (ἐθνος, a people of the gens): populus (δῆμος, the inhabitants a place, considered with regard to their social and political relations). ☞ A civilized natio sometimes forms part of a natural gens; sometimes gens, politically, forms part of a populus. ☞ Gens and natio are often used promiscuously by Roman writers: we find, also, (The words are found in this connection and order.) gentes nationesque; populi nationesque; populi et gentes. ☞ In the historical style we often find nomen for gens or populus; i. e., nomen Romanum, Latinum. Gens is rarely combined with nomen. A foreign nation, populus externus; gens, natio, extera (Cic.): an ancient nation, gens antiqua: a great, powerful nation, populus magnus, opulentus, potens: a warlike nation, gens bellicosa, fera, fortis; populus fortis: a free nation, populus invictus, liber.
GRG Georges (1)
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Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (8th ed., 1913/1918). Digitized data accessed from latin-dict.github.io and is in the public domain.