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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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• posterity:
      1. 1. postĕri, orum (descendants): to exact penalties from children, grandchildren, p., a liberis, nepotibus, p., poenas expetere, Cic. N. D. 3, 38, init.: Hor.: Tac.
      2. 2. postĕrĭtas (in more abstract sense, after-times or people): to be known to p. (after-ages), posteritati notum esse, Cic. Am. 4, 15: to have regard to p., posteritati servire, id. Tusc. 1, 15, extr.: late p., sera p., Ov. Pont. 4, 8, 48. (N.B.--To be used with care; as it strictly means nothing more than, the total of what follows: cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 13, posteritatis rationem habere = to have regard to after-consequences.)
      3. 3. mĭnōres, um (= posteri: poet.): Virg.
      4. 4. when referring to the notice or memory of after-ages, often expr. by mĕmŏria: to hand down to p., memoriae prodere: v. to hand down. Join: ad memoriam posteritatemque prodere, Cic. Verr. 5, 14, 36.
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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• POSTERITY
posteritas (time, and persons): posteri, homines qui futuri sunt (persons). To hand down anything to posterity, aliquid memoriae prodere, aliquid posteritati notum facere (general term); litteris aliquid prodere (by writing): to come down to posterity, ad posteritatem pervenire: to transmit one’s name to posterity, memoriam prodere: this will descend to the latest posterity, hujus rei ne posteritas quidem omnium saeculorum immemor erit: to have regard, or a view, to posterity, posteritatis rationem habere; posteritati servire; futurae post mortem famae consulere.