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|lshtext=<b>praesertim</b>: adv. [[prae]]-[[sero]]; cf. [[praecipue]], from [[praecipio]], qs. [[connected]] [[beforehand]], serves to [[add]] an [[important]] [[argument]] or [[condition]] ([[hence]] [[most]] freq. joined [[with]] cum and si),<br /><b>I</b> [[especially]], [[chiefly]], [[principally]], [[particularly]], καὶ [[ταῦτα]] ([[class]].; cf. [[praecipue]]).<br /><b>I</b> Absol.: praefestinamus, quae [[sit]] [[causa]], sciscere, [[quod]] [[sit]] [[necessum]] scire, [[praesertim]] in brevi, Afran. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 186 P. (Com. Rel. p. 214 Rib.): [[praesertim]] ut [[nunc]] sunt [[mores]], etc., Ter. Phorm, 1, 2, 5: retinenda est huius generis [[verecundia]], [[praesertim]] naturā ipsā magistrā, Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129; 1, 39, 140; id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: [[praesertim]] homines tantulae staturae, Caes. B. G. 2, 30 fin.: (te) [[praesertim]] cautum dignos assumere, Hor. S. 1, 6, 51; id. A. P. 383 al.— Placed [[after]] the [[word]] [[which]] it qualifies: deforme est de se ipsum praedicare, falsa [[praesertim]], Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137; id. Lael. 4, 15: in scripto [[praesertim]], id. Brut. 61, 219: hac [[praesertim]] imbecillitate magistratum, id. Fam. 1, 4, 3: tanta [[praesertim]], id. Tusc. 5, 7, 19; Caes. B. G. 4, 8.—<br /><b>II</b> Praesertim cum or cum [[praesertim]] and [[praesertim]] si=[[particularly]] [[since]] or if: [[quod]] scribere, [[praesertim]] cum de philosophiā scriberem, non auderem, Cic. Off. 2, 14, 51; so, [[praesertim]] cum, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 24; Cic. Off. 3, 2, 8; id. Deiot. 7, 21; id. Lig. 1, 1; id. Arch. 5, 10; id. Att. 5, 21, 13; Caes. B. G. 1, 16 fin.; 1, 33, 4; Nep. Alc. 5, 2; Sall. H. 1, 41, 1 and 3, 61, 12 Dietsch; Quint. 5, 10, 103; 7, 9, 12; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 50: cum [[praesertim]], Cic. Off. 3, 30, 110; id. Mil. 30, 81; id. Rosc. Am. 8, 22; id. N. D. 1, 10, 26; id. Fam. 2, 6, 2; Sall. J. 2, 4; 3, 2; id. C. 51, 19 Kritz N. Cr.; Liv. 3, 52, 9; Quint. 1, 2, 11; 1, 11, 17; 1, 12, 4 al.; Prop. 1, 2, 27. (So for [[praesertim]] [[quod]] the true [[read]]. is [[praesertim]] cum in Cic. Fl. 17, 41).—Faciam, Laeli, [[praesertim]] si utrique vestrum gratum futurum est, Cic. Sen. 2, 6; so [[with]] indic.: [[praesertim]] si est, id. Fam. 2, 7, 1; 14, 2 fin.: [[praesertim]] si incubuit, Verg. G. 2, 310.—With subj.: [[praesertim]] si esset, Cic. Tusc. 3, 17, 38: [[praesertim]] si aedifices, id. Off. 1, 39, 140.