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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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• worthy:
    1. I. Deserving: dignus: (i.) with abl.: a man most w. of his ancestors, vir majoribus suis dignissimus, Cic. Phil. 3, 10, 25: you are w. of stripes, dignus es verberibus, Pl. Mil. 2, 3, 71: flattery is not w. even of a free man, assentatio ne libero quidem digna est, Cic. Am. 24, 89: (ii.) with relative and subj.: w. of commanding, dignus qui imperet, id. Leg. 3, 2, 5: (iii.) with infin. (only in poets): w. to be praised in song, dignus cantari, Virg. E. 5, 54: (iv.) with ut (very rarely): I am not w., compared with you, to drive a stake into a wall, non sum dignus prae te ut figam palum in parietem, Pl. Mil. 4, 4, 4.
    2. II. Possessing worth, good: Phr. w. and suitable men, digni et idonei, Sall. C. 51: but this use is not Ciceronian: for this sense use laudandus, optimus: v. good, estimable. Phr.: I think not myself w. of such honour, haud equidem tali me dignor honore, Virg. Aen. 1, 335.
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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• WORTH, WORTHY
  • adj., dignus aliqua re (☞ not with a genitive; neither can dignus be used without its case: also, observe that “worthy that,” “worthy of,” “worthy to,” followed by a verb or participle, must be expressed by dignus qui, with a subjunctive; dignus, with an infinitive passive, is found only in poets and in inferior prose). Worthy of credit, fide dignus: dignus cui fides habeatur: worthy of commendation, dignus laude: laudandus: dignus qui laudetur: to esteem anybody worthy, dignari; dignum habere, ducere, putare, judicare, existimare; of anything, aliqua re, or with qui, quae, quod: to be worthy, valere (to be valued at); in pretio esse, or pretii esse, with the genitives magni, parvi, pluris, etc.; pretium habere, emi, vendi aliquo pretio (to be bought or sold at a certain price): corn is worthy nothing, annona pretium non habet: corn is worthy a little more, annona carior fit: estates are now worthy nothing, nunc jacent pretia praediorum: a sesterce is worthy two ases and a half, sestertius efficitur ex duobus assibus et tertio semisse: sestertius exaequat duos asses et tertium semissem: it is worth more to me than another thing, potior res est: it is worth while, operae pretium est: if they be worth seeing, si videndo sint (Cic.): to be worth more, pluris esse.
  • Worthy = good; Vid.