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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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• obliging (adj.):
      1. 1. cōmis, e (courteous and amiable): cf. Cic. Bal. 16, 36, comes, benigni, faciles dicuntur; qui erranti comiter monstrant viam: Ter. Join: benignus et lepidus et comis, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 39; comis et humanus, Cic. Fin. 2, 25, 80.
      2. 2. hūmānus (characterized by kindly human feeling: more comprehensive than preced.): an o. disposition, h. ingenium, Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 86: Cic. Join: communis (affable) atque humanus, Cic. Sen. 17, 59; facillimus atque humanissimus, id. Att. 16, 16: cf. supr. (1). Very o., perhumanus, id. Fam. 13, 21.
      3. 3. făcĭlis, e (easy-tempered): v. kind, good-natured.
      4. 4. commūnis, e (affable, ready to impart of one's own): of so o. a disposition as that ..., tam c. animo esse ut ..., Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 39: Cic.: v. supr. (2).
      5. 5. offĭciōsus (full of respect and attention towards): cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 24, 63, Lampsaceni in omnes cives Romanos officiosi (ready to do anything to show respect or oblige): also, id. Fam. 13, 21, extr. (N.B.--Not obsequens, obsequiosus: which = yielding, complaisant.)
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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• OBLIGING
comis (courteous): obsequiosus (willingly acceding to others’ wishes; the latter only in Plaut., Capt., 2, 3, 58): facilis: officiosus (complaisant, ready to render a service): obliging in anything, promptus or paratus ad aliquid (ready for anything): inclinatus or propensus ad aliquid (easily to be induced, inclined to anything): indulgens (indulgent; opposed to durus): to be obliging in anything, alicui or alicujus voluntati morem gerere or obsequi: know, that thou art a great deal too obliging (indulgent), te esse auricula infirma, molliorem scito (Cic.). The liberality and obliging temper of the magistrates, liberalitas atque accommodatio magistrateum.