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|lshtext=<b>ălĭbī</b>: adv. contr. from [[aliubi]]; aliusibi,<br /><b>I</b> [[elsewhere]].<br /> Elsewhere, otherwhere, [[somewhere]] [[else]], in or at [[another]] [[place]], = [[alio]] [[loco]], [[ἄλλοθι]] ([[very]] freq. in the [[post]]-Aug. per., esp. in Pliny; in Cic. [[only]] [[twice]], and [[then]] in [[connection]] [[with]] [[nusquam]] and nec [[usquam]]. Never in Hor. or Juv.; in the [[other]] poets [[rare]]): St. Hiccine nos habitare censes? Ch. Ubinam ego [[alibi]] censeam? Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 72: [[scio]] [[equidem]] [[alibi]] jam animum tuum, id. Truc. 4, 4, 13: [[alibi]] gentium et civitatum, App. Flor. p. 356, 6; cf. id. ib. 360, 4.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alibi ... [[alibi]] ([[even]] [[several]] times), in one [[place]] ... in [[another]]; here ... [[there]] = hic ... [[illic]]; [[hence]] also [[sometimes]] hic or [[illic]] ... [[alibi]]: [[alibi]] pavorem, [[alibi]] [[gaudium]] [[ingens]] facit, Liv. 3, 18; 8, 32; Sen. Ep. 98 al.: [[exercitus]], [[trifariam]] dissipatus, [[alibi]] [[primum]], [[alibi]] postremum [[agmen]], [[alibi]] [[impedimenta]], [[inter]] [[vepres]] delituit, Liv. 38, 46; Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 8; so id. 5, 27, 27, § 99 al.: hic segetes, [[illic]] veniunt felicius uvae, Arborei [[fetus]] [[alibi]], Verg. G. 1, 54; Plin. 10, 50, 71, § 146. Once [[alibi]] ... [[deinde]], Curt. 7, 4, 26.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Joined [[with]] words of the [[same]] [[origin]] ([[alius]]; v. [[alius]], [[aliter]], etc.): [[alibi]] [[alius]] or [[aliter]], one here, [[another]] [[there]]; one in this, the [[other]] in [[that]] [[manner]]: esse alios [[alibi]] [[congressus]] materiaï, Qualis hic est, [[that]] [[matter]] has [[elsewhere]] [[other]] combinations, [[similar]] to [[that]] of the [[world]], Lucr. 3, 1065: exprobrantes suam [[quisque]] [[alius]] [[alibi]] militiam, Liv. 2, 23: pecora diversos [[alium]] [[alibi]] pascere jubet, id. 9, 2; so id. 44, 33: [[alius]] [[alibi]] projectus, Vulg. Sap. 18, 18: [[medium]] [[spatium]] torrentis, [[alibi]] [[aliter]] cavati, Liv. 44, 35.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alibi [[atque]] [[alibi]], at one [[time]] here, at [[another]] [[there]]; [[now]] here, [[now]] [[there]] (cf. [[aliubi]], B.): haec ([[aqua]]) [[alibi]] [[atque]] [[alibi]] utilior nobilitavit loca gloriā ferri, Plin. 34, 14, 41, § 144.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With negatives, nec, non, [[nusquam]], nec [[usquam]]: nec tam praesentes [[alibi]] cognoscere divos, Verg. E. 1, 42: asperrima in hac parte [[dimicatio]] est, nec [[alibi]] dixeris [[magis]] mucrone pugnari, Quint. 6, 4, 4: [[nusquam]] [[alibi]], Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103: [[omnis]] armatorum [[copia]] dextrā sinistrā ad equum, nec [[usquam]] [[alibi]], id. Att. 13, 52. And [[instead]] of a [[negative]], an [[interrogation]] implying it: num [[alibi]] [[quam]] in Capitolio? Liv. 5, 52.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>5</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alibi [[quam]], indicating [[comparison]], [[elsewhere]] [[than]], [[commonly]] [[with]] a neg., non, [[nusquam]], etc., [[nowhere]] [[else]] [[than]]: qui et [[alibi]] [[quam]] in Nilo nascitur, Plin. 32, 10, 43, § 125: posse principem [[alibi]] [[quam]] Romae fieri, Tac. H. 1, 4; id. A. 15, 20: faciliusque laudes [[vestras]] [[alibi]] gentium [[quam]] [[apud]] vos praedicārim, App. Flor. p. 360, 4: [[nusquam]] [[alibi]] [[quam]] in Macedoniā, Liv. 43, 9: ne [[alibi]] [[quam]] in armis animum haberent, id. 10, 20; Tac. A. 1, 77: nec [[alibi]] [[quam]] in Germaniā, * Suet. Aug. 23; so Col. R. R. 8, 11, 8.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf. from [[place]] to [[other]] objects.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Otherwise, in [[something]] [[else]], in [[other]] things, in [[other]] respects: si [[alibi]] [[plus]] perdiderim, [[minus]] [[aegre]] habeam, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 16: [[neque]] [[istic]] [[neque]] [[alibi]] [[tibi]] erit [[usquam]] in me [[mora]], Ter. And. 2, 5, 9; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 38: nec spem salutis [[alibi]] [[quam]] in [[pace]], Liv. 30, 35, 11: [[alibi]] [[quam]] in innocentiā spem habere, id. 7, 41: [[alibi]] [[quam]] mos permiserit, [[otherwise]], in [[other]] things, [[than]] [[custom]] allows, Quint. 11, 1, 47; 4, 1, 53.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of persons, [[elsewhere]], [[with]] [[some]] [[other]] one ([[very]] [[rare]]): priusquam hanc uxorem duxi, habebam [[alibi]] (sc. [[apud]] meretricem) animum amori deditum, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 14: Quantum militum transportatum [[sit]], [[apud]] auctores discrepat: [[alibi]] [[decem]] milia [[peditum]], duo milia ducentos equites, [[alibi]] parte [[plus]] dimidiā rem auctam [[invenio]], Liv. 29, 25: [[interdum]] [[alibi]] est [[hereditas]], [[alibi]] [[tutela]], Dig. 26, 4, 1; so, in designating [[another]] [[place]] in an [[author]], Quint. 4, 2, 110; 8, 3, 21 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]] [[sometimes]], [[like]] [[alias]] (v. [[that]] [[word]]), for [[alioqui]], [[otherwise]]: rhinocerotes [[quoque]], rarum [[alibi]] [[animal]], in iisdem montibus erant, an [[animal]] [[otherwise]] [[rare]], Curt. 9, 1, 5: [[nemus]] opacum arboribus [[alibi]] inusitatis, [[with]] trees [[else]] [[rare]], id. 9, 1, 13.

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