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|lshtext=<b>non-nĕ</b>: adv., the [[interrogative]] non, expecting an [[affirmative]] [[answer]],<br /><b>I</b> not?<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a [[direct]] [[interrogation]]: [[nonne]] ego hic sto? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 250: [[nonne]] animadvertis? Cic. N. D. 3, 37, 89: te dejectum [[debeo]] intellegere, [[etiamsi]] [[tactus]] non fueris: [[nonne]]? id. Caecin. 13, 37: [[quid]] [[paulo]] [[ante]] dixerim, [[nonne]] meministi? id. Fin. 2, 3, 10 Madv. N. cr.; cf. id. ib. 5, 28, 86.—Very [[rarely]] [[repeated]]: [[nonne]] extremam pati fortunam paratos projecit [[ille]]? [[nonne]] sibi [[clam]] ...? [[nonne]], etc., Caes. B. C. 2, 32, 8. But [[usually]] followed by non in continued questions: [[nonne]] [[vobis]] haec quae audīstis oculis cernere videmini? non illum ... videtis? non positas insidias? non, etc., Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 98; id. Sull. 2, 7; id. Cat. 1, 11, 27.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In an [[indirect]] [[interrogation]], if not, [[whether]] not: cum esset ex eo [[quaesitum]], Archelaum Perdiccae filium [[nonne]] [[beatum]] putaret, Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 34.
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