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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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• poverty:
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. paupertas (poor or humble circumstances): p. or rather destitution and beggary, p. vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Par. 6, 1, extr.: also sometimes = egestas: Cic. Div. 1, 17, 31 (quum propter paupertatem sues pasceret): Juv.
      2. 2. paupĕries, ēi, f. (poet. for preced.): to bear pinching p., angustam p. pati, Hor. Od. 3, 2, 1: called also, p. importuna, ib. 3, 16, 37; dura, ib. 4, 9, 49: Ter.
      3. 3. ĕgestas (indigence): v. supr. (1).
      4. 4. ĭnŏpia: v. want.
      5. 5. (poet.) res angusta domi: Juv. 3, 165.
    2. II. Poorness, inadequacy:
      1. 1. ĕgestas: p. of our native tongue, patrii sermonis e., Lucr. 1, 832: p. of soul, e. animi, Cic. in Pis. 11, init. (Better not paupertas in this sense; though Quint. has, p. sermonis, Inst. 8, 3, 33.)
      2. 2. ĭnŏpia: Join: inopia et jejunitas (in a speaker): Cic. Br. 55, 202. Or expr. by inops: he complains of the p. of the language, *de lingua queritur ut inopi ac minime locupleti: cf. Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10. See also meagreness.
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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• POVERTY
  • Want of money or means of subsistence, paupertas, angustiae rei familiaris, difficultas domestica (of those who have barely enough for necessary expenses, πενία: ☞ Pauperies is only poetic): tenuitas (of those who have a very small income or fortune): egestas (of those in want of things necessary, whether the necessity be natural or acquired): inopia (deep poverty, helpless need): mendicitas (the poverty of a beggar, beggary, πτωχεία). (The words are found in this connection and order.) egestas ac mendicitas. To live in poverty, parce ac duriter vitam agere; tenuiter vivere (Ter., Phorm., 1, 2, 95): to live in great poverty, vitam in egestate degere; vitam inopem colere: to fall into poverty [Vid: “To grow POOR”]: to fall into deep poverty, ad pudendam inopiam delabi (of a family): to plunge anyone into poverty, aliquem ad paupertatem protrahere, ad inopiam redigere, ad famam rejicere: to plunge one’s self into great poverty, se detrudere in mendicitatem: to bear or endure poverty, paupertatem perferre; (very great) inopiam tolerare; mendicitatem perpeti: to rise from poverty, ex mendicitate emergere.
  • Poorness, want, deficiency, egestas; inopia. Poverty of intellect or wit, animi egestas (Cic., Pis., 11, in.): tenuis et angusta ingenii vena (Quint., 6, 2, 3): poverty of expression, inopia (Cic., Brut., 55, 202; where we find paupertas et jejunitas): poverty of words (in conversation), sermonis inopia (Sen., Benef., 2, 27, 1).