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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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• offspring:
      1. 1. lībĕri, orum, (of human beings): to have o. by a woman, ex muliere l. habere, Cic. Att. 16, 11, init.: to beget o., l. procreare, id. Tusc. 5, 37, fin.. legally the term liberi included also grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. Call. Dig. 50, 16, 220.
      2. 2. nāti, orum (young of men or animals: esp. poet.): affection for their o. (of horses), amor natorum, Col. 6, 27, fin.: sweet (dear) o. (of cattle), dulces n., Virg. G. 3, 178: Ov.: Phaedr.
      3. 3. prōgĕnies, ēi (collectively, those more or less remotely descended from the same): the ancients called themselves the o. of the gods, veteres se pr. deorum esse dicebant, Cic. Tim. 11: out of a numerous o., ex magna pr., Liv. 45, 41, extr.: poet. with ref. to one person (= filius), Virg. Aen. 10, 471 (Sarpedon mea progenies): v. progeny.
      4. 4. prōles, is, f. (a poet. word = progenies; yet adapted for occasional use in prose: Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153; where both proles and suboles are mentioned among exprr. which render a style more imposing and archaic, quibus loco positis, grandior et antiquior oratio saepe videri solet): to bring forth twin o., p. eni i gemellam, Ov. M. 9, 453: Virg. Of animals, Lucr. 1, 260: Virg.: and even of plants: the o. of the slow-growing olive, p. tarde crescentis olivae, Virg. G. 2, 3.
      5. 5. sŭbŏles or sŏbŏles, is, f. (like proles: v. supr. 4): dear o. of the gods! cara deum s.! Virg. E. 4, 49: Cic. Off. 1, 17, 54. Also used of animals: Col.: Plin.
      6. 6. stirps, stirpis, f. (chiefly poet. or late = progenies): male o. by the new alliance, s. virilis ex novo matrimonio, Liv. 1, 1, extr.: Virg.: v. lineage. (N.B.--If used at all in prose, stirps should be confined to rhetorical language.)
      7. 7. gĕnus, ĕris, n. (poet.): the daring o. (= son) of Iapetus, audax Iapeti g., Hor. Od. 1, 3, 27: Virg. (N.B.--Prosapia = stock, family, lineage: never offspring.)
      8. 8. partus, ūs (young of animals): beasts fight for their o., bestiae pro partu propugnant, Cic. Tusc. 2, 27, fin.
      9. 9. expr. by participles, ortus, sătus, ēdĭtus, gĕnĭtus, nātus (with abl.): thou o. of Saturn! orte Saturno! Hor. Od. 1, 12, 50: the o. of Anchises (viz. Aeneas), satus Anchisa, Virg. Aen. 5, 244: thou o. of royal ancestors! atavis edite regibus! Hor. Od. 1, init. (This last mode of expr. is best suited to such passages as Milton's, Hail holy Light, o. of heaven! Ave lux sacra, aethere prima genita!)
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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• OFFSPRING
prosapia; posteritas (the former an antiquated and solemn expression, only used of ancient families; offspring collectively): progenies (a somewhat select expression, PROP. used collectively, but also of one or more): stirps (somewhat poetical in this sense, but also used by Livy and Tac.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) stirps et progenies (Tac.): proles; suboles (poetical, speaking of children as fruits: proles as a new race, to exist with their parents; suboles as an after-growth, to supply their places, Döderlein). Male offspring, stirps virilis (Liv.); virilis sexus stirps: to leave any offspring, stirpem relinquere; ex se natos (sc. filios) relinquere: to leave no male offspring, virilem sexum non relinquere.