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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 2 senses)
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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• ambitious:
    1. I. Eager for praise, power, glory, etc.: laudis, gloriae, honorum, potentiae cupidus, appetens, avidus: as, you (Caesar) will not deny that you are very a. of glory, gloriae te esse avidissimum non negabis, Cic.: v. desirous of, eager.--Note. The adj. ambitiosus is rarely, if ever, used in precisely the sense of the Eng. word; denoting rather the character of one who obsequiously courts (public) favour. So Cic. appears always to employ it: thus, homo minime ambitiosus (Fam. 13, 1, fin.), is a man who is not at all offensively obsequious. Phr.: to be a., gloriam petere, exsequi; ambitione teneri, captum teneri, laborare, etc.: to be not at all a., omni ambitione remotum esse, Cic.: v. ambition: to be extremely a. of power, potentiam concupiscere, Cic.: those who are unscrupulously a., qui omnia recta et honesta negligunt, dummodo potentiam consequantur, Cic. Off. 3, 21, 82.
    2. II. Pretentious, ostentatious: ambĭtĭōsus: an a. death, a. mors, Tac.: to lop off a. ornaments, a. ornamenta recidere, Hor.
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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• AMBITIOUS
ambitiosus: avidus gloriae or laudis: cupidus honorum: laudis et honoris cupidus: appetens gloriae: sitiens femae. To be ambitious, laudis studio trahi: gloria duci. To be ambitious of anything, alicujus rei desiderio incensum esse or flagrare: aliquid ardenter cupere.