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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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• happen:
      1. 1. accĭdo, di, 3 (this and foll. verbs in present sense only in 3 pers. sing. and pl.: of either unfortunate or fortunate events: often with dat.): it h.'d to be full moon, accidit ut esset luna plena, Caes. B. G. 4, 29: Cic.: Nep.: it h.'d very unfortunately that you did not see him, accidit perincommode quod eum non vidisti (where the latter clause is the subject), Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1: the subj. may also be an infin., Cic. Fam. 6, 11, nec enim acciderat mihi opus esse: to h. fortunately for any one, alicui satis opportune ac., Caes. B. G. 4, 22: Cic. (N.B.--I, you, he h.'d to be, must be expr. by accidit ut essem, esses, esset: comp. infr.). The simple verb cado also occurs (rarely) in this sense: if aught untoward should h., si quid adversi casurum foret, Liv. 35, 13, fin.: cf. Cic. Fam. 5, 19, med., quum aliter res cecidisset ac putasses.
      2. 2. contingo, tĭgi, 3 (to fall to the lot of any one; usu. with dat.): it does not h. to everybody (is not everybody's good luck), non cuivis homini contingit (with infin. as subj.), Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 36: also absol., that h.'d through no fault of mine, [nulla] mea culpa id contigit, Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15. (Contingo is most freq. used of what is fortunate, but not always so, cf. Cic. Ph. 2, 7, 17, tibi idem [sc. fatum] quod illis accidit contigisset.)
      3. 3. ēvĕnio, .vēni, ventum, 4 (to come to pass: not necessarily implying accident): I feared those things would h. which have done so, timebam ne evenirent ea quae acciderunt, Cic. Fam. 6, 21: we h.'d to be at the Privernum estate, evenit ut in Privernati essemus, Brut. in Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 224 (but Cic. himself would prob. have said accidit): v. to occur, turn out (intr.).
      4. 4. fio, factus, tĭĕri (to take place, whether accidentally or not): how h.s it, qui fit (ut)? Hor. S. 1, 1, 1: as often h.s, quod persaepe fit, Cic. Am. 20, 75; ut fieri solet, ib. 21, 77. (For usu venire, v. to experience.)
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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• HAPPEN
cadere: accidere (to come to pass, of that which occurs by chance; mostly of unlucky events, but also of happy ones; accidere sometimes with the addition of casu): contingere (of occurrences that are wished for, and happy events): evenire (to come forth, happen, result; of cause and effect): usu venire (of facts which anybody experiences. ☞ Not usu evenire; vid Gernhard., Cic., Cat. Maj., 3, 7; Bremi, Nep., Hannib., 12, 3): fieri (to be done). Cases or events will happen, incidunt causae, tempora (☞ contingunt casus not Latin). It happened that, etc., forte evenit or casu accidit, ut, etc.: to happen to mention anything, in mentionem alicujus rei incidere: as it generally happen, ut fit.