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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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• sparing (adj.): parcus (absol. or with gen. of that which is sparingly used; also in and abl.): to offer with s. hand, p. manu offerre, Hor. Od. 3, 16, 43: s. of blood, p. sanguinis (civium), Tac. H. 3, 75: too s. in the bestowment of the franchise, nimium p. in largienda civitate, Cic. Balb. 22. See also frugal, economical. Stronger than parcus, are sordidus (v. mean) and mălignus (v. stingy, STINTED). Tenax = close-fisted. To be s. of anything, parcere with dat. (v. to spare): foll. by inf., Hor. S. 2, 2, 58, nisi mutatum, parcit defendere vinum.
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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• SPARING
  • (Of things), angustus: tenuis. (The words are found in this connection and order.) tenuis et angustus: exiguus: parvus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) tenuis et exiguus (☞ parcus, in this use of it, only in the poets; the best prose writers apply it exclusively to persons).
  • (Of persons), parcus (the proper word): restrictus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) parcus et restrictus: tenax. (The words are found in this connection and order.) parcus et tenax: restrictus et tenax: frugi (comparative, frugalior, superlative, frugalissimus; the positive frugalis was not in use): malignus. To be sparing of anything, parce dare aliquid (e.g., civitatem Romanam parcissime dedit, Suet., Oct., 40). So sparing was he of time, tanta alicui erat parsimonia temporis (Plin., Ep., 3, 5, 12).