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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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• wretchedness:
      1. 1. mĭsĕria: where virtue is, there w. and utter misery cannot be, ubi virtus est, ibi esse miseria et aerumna non potest, Cic. Fin. 5, 32, 95: the w. (poverty) of the commons increased every day, indies miseriae plebis crescebant, Liv. 6, 34.
      2. 2. aerumna: w. is distressful sorrow, aerumna est aegritudo laboriosa, Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 18.
      3. 3. ĕgestas (bitter poverty): poverty or rather w. and beggary, paupertas vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Parad. 6, 1, 45: v. misery.
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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• WRETCHEDNESS
miseria (general term): res misene or afflictae (sad circumstances, pitiable state of affairs): calamitas (occasioned by loss): aerumnae: vexationes (distress): egestas (bitter poverty): angustiae temporum (bad times): tempora luctuosa (mournful times). To be in wretchedness, in miseria esse or versari; in summa infelicitate versari; iniquissima fortuna uti: to be born to wretchedness, ad miseriam or miseriis ferendis natum esse: to deliver from wretchedness, a miseria vindicare; ex miseriis eripere: to alleviate the wretchedness of anyone, miseriis aliquem levare.