![]() The rule here given is not invalidated by the fact of ac being found here and there before vowels in editions of Latin authors, as is the case, for example, in two passages of Ernesti's edition of Cicero, ad Quint. Balb., 3, non contra ac liceret, sed contra atque oporteret, and it is probable that in prose as well as in poetry the hiatus was avoided by elision. Hence the two forms in the same sentence of Cicero, p. Note.- Ac is never used before vowels (which, however, do not include j) or before an h atque occurs most frequently before vowels, but before consonants also. They are aut, vel, the suffix ve, and sive or seu. As these particles unite things which are of a kind, so the disjunctive conjunctions, signifying 'or', connect things which are distinct from each other. Etiam and quoque also belong to this class, together with the adverbial item and itidem. A union ( conjunctions copulativae) as, et, ac, atque, and the enclitic que, combined with the negation belonging to the verb, neque or nec, or doubled so as to become an affirmative, nec (neque) non, equivalent to et. ![]() In reference to their signification, they may be divided into the following classes. Sed, nam and of the latter atque, itaque, attamen,ģ. Of the former kind are, e.g., et, ac, at, In regard to their form ( figura), they are either simple Of cause and effect, as is the case with ubi, ibi, and inde, and with eo andĢ. To connect propositions the adverbs of place, on the other hand, are justlyĬlassed among the conjunctions when they drop their meaning of placeĪnd express a connexion of propositions in respect of time, or the relation Postremum) retain, indeed, their original signification, but when they areĭoubled as, tum-turn, nunc-nunc, modo-modo, they evidently serve only Those denoting time (e.g., deinde, denique, Of the mode of their application in language, they should not beĬlassed among conjunctions. But there are also many adverbsĭenoting time and place, respecting which it is doubtful whether, in consequence Upon as conjunctions e.g., ceterum, verum, vero, licet, quamvis, and such compounds as quare, idcirco, quamobrem. Note 2.-Many of the conjunctions to be mentioned presently originallyīelonged to other parts of speech but they have lost their real signification,Īnd as they serve to join propositions, they may at once be looked The subject of vincamus, and not ego aut tu. No doubt about the conjunction 'also'), we must have recourse to theĪbove explanation, that two propositions are contracted into one, for in egoĪut tu vincamus necesse est, the nos, which comprehends the two persons, is With regard to the other, especially the disjunctive conjunctions (for there can be Hence we may say that the (copulative)Ĭonjunctions et, que, ac, and atque join single words also. ![]() Practice of language, however, did not stop short in this contraction, butĪs we may say ratio et oratio conjungunt homines, and as we must say paterĮt filius dormiunt, the language, by the plural of the predicate, clearly indicates Vive diu ac feliciter and ratio et oratio homines conjungit, again, mayīe divided each into two propositions, joined by the conjunctions vive diu et vive feliciter and ratio conjungit homines et oratio conjungit homines. Here sive Mavors is to be explained by the omission of sive is MavorsĪppellandus est, which phrase is, in fact, not unfrequently used. Into one, or when one is omitted, as in Mars sive Mavors bellis praesidet This, however, is in reality the case only when two propositions are contracted The first class in our division, connect not only sentences, but single words. Note 1.-Some conjunctions, and more particularly all those which form Links of propositions, whence their name conjunctions. Of speech which express the relations in which sentences CONJUNCTIONS are those indeclinable parts (Published 1856, Harper & Brothers, Original from Harvard University). ![]() Taken from a rather badly scanned in digital copy of the book A Grammar of the Latin Language By Karl Gottlob Zumpt This excellent guide to the use of conjunctions in Latin is ![]()
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