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|lshtext=<b>immo</b>: [[incorrectly]] written īmo perh. [[sup]]. form from in, [[with]] [[ending]] mo; cf.: [[summus]], [[primus]]; [[hence]],<br /><b>I</b> on the [[contrary]], no [[indeed]], by no [[means]], or [[yes]] [[indeed]], by all [[means]] ([[more]] [[commonly]] contradicting or [[essentially]] qualifying [[what]] precedes; [[but]] [[never]], [[like]] [[minime]], as an [[independent]] [[negative]], [[being]] [[regularly]] accompanied by a [[clause]] defining the [[meaning]]; v. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 551).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: Tr. Etiam fatetur de hospite? Th. Immo pernegat, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 19: An. Ubi? domin'? Ch. Immo [[apud]] libertum Discum, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 60: Do. Hae [[quid]] ad me? To. Immo ad te attinent, Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 27: De. Faciat, ut voles. Nau. Immo ejus judicio [[permitto]] omnia, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 54; id. Heaut. 4, 3, 28.—Esp., in a [[reply]] extending or amplifying the [[preceding]] [[thought]] (cf.: [[potius]], [[quin]] [[potius]]): expedies? [[nempe]] ut [[modo]]? D. Immo [[melius]] [[spero]], Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 22; Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 80: Si. Quid? hoc intellextin'? an [[nondum]] [[etiam]] ne hoc [[quidem]]? Da. Immo [[callide]], Ter. And. 1, 2, 30: non [[igitur]] faciat, dixerit [[quis]], [[quod]] utile [[sit]], [[quod]] expediat? Immo intelligat [[nihil]] nec expedire nec utile esse, [[quod]] [[sit]] injustum, Cic. Off. 3, 17, 76: [[causa]] [[igitur]] non bona est? Immo optima, id. Att. 9, 7, 4; cf.: quem hominem? levem? [[immo]] gravissimum. Mobilem? [[immo]] constantissimum. Familiarem? [[immo]] alienissimum, id. Rosc. Com. 16, 49; id. Att. 10, 12, 4: cum [[ille]] dixisset, se [[vero]] non exspectare; Immo, inquit, [[rogo]] exspectes, Quint. 9, 3, 68: [[quid]] tu? Nullane habes vitia? Immo [[alia]]. Et [[fortasse]] minora? Hor. S. 1, 3, 20; Plin. [[Pan]]. 36, 3.—So in retorting a [[question]]: Me. Quid [[apud]] hasce [[aedes]] negotii est [[tibi]]? So. Immo [[quid]] [[tibi]]'st? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 194; id. Bacch. 2, 2, 29: Ph. An amabo [[meretrix]] [[illa]] est, quae illam sustulit? La. Immo [[meretrix]] fuit; sed ut [[sit]], de ea re eloquar, id. Cist. 2, 3, 22; cf. id. Most. 3, 2, 41: Si. Paucis te [[volo]]. So. Dictum [[puta]]: Nempe ut curentur recte haec. Si. Immo aliud, Ter. And. 1, 1, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Strengthened by [[edepol]], [[hercle]], [[ecastor]], [[vero]], [[potius]], etc.: Ol. Ecquid amas [[nunc]] me? St. Immo [[edepol]] me [[quam]] te [[minus]], Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 19; id. Capt. 2, 1, 16: St. Quod [[bonum]] [[atque]] fortunatum mihi [[sit]]. Ol. Ita [[vero]] et mihi. Ch. Non. Ol. Immo [[hercle]]. Ch. Immo mihi [[hercle]], id. Cas. 2, 6, 51; Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 5: Pa. Mala es. Ph. Immo [[ecastor]], Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 33: Pa. Nescis, Parmeno, Quantum [[hodie]] profueris mihi, etc. ... Par. Immo [[vero]] [[scio]], [[neque]] hoc [[imprudens]] feci, Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 37: [[quid]]? si tyrannidem occupare, si patriam prodere conabitur [[pater]]: silebitne [[filius]]? Immo [[vero]] obsecrabit patrem, ne id faciat, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90; id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1: Tr. Sub dio coli [[absque]] [[sole]] perpetuum diem. Si. Immo [[edepol]] [[vero]], cum, etc., Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 79: Tr. Ecquid placent? Th. Ecquid placeant me rogas? [[immo]] [[hercle]] [[vero]] perplacent, id. ib. 4, 1, 4: [[senatus]] haec intelligit, [[consul]] videt: hic [[tamen]] vivit. Vivit? [[immo]] [[vero]] [[etiam]] in senatum venit, Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 2; id. Att. 12, 43, 1: De. Juben' hanc [[hinc]] abscedere? Ph. Immo [[intus]] [[potius]], Plaut. As. 5, 2, 89: [[immo]] [[hercle]] abiero [[potius]], id. Bacch. 2, 2, 33: sed vos nihilne attulistis [[inde]] auri domum? Immo [[etiam]], id. ib. 2, 3, 82: [[immo]] [[etiam]], id. Mil. 4, 2, 23; Ter. And. 4, 1, 46: [[immo]] [[vero]] [[etiam]], v. [[above]]: [[immo]] est [[quoque]], Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 51: an infirmissimi omnium [[tamquam]], quos [[nuper]] subjecit, [[Dolopes]]? Immo [[contra]] ea, etc., Liv. 41, 24, 8: [[immo]] [[contra]], Dig. 33, 7, 5; 38, 2, 51; 41, 3, 49.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As an [[expression]] of [[dislike]] or [[surprise]] ([[ante]]-[[class]].): Ch. Verum vis dicam? Da. Immo [[etiam]] Narrationis incipit mihi [[initium]], no [[indeed]]! [[now]] he is [[going]] to [[begin]] a [[long]] [[story]], Ter. And. 4, 2, 25: idne est [[verum]]? [[immo]] id est [[genus]] hominum pessimum, id. ib. 4, 1, 5: Pe. Euge, [[euge]], [[lepide]]: [[laudo]] [[commentum]] tuum. Pa. Ut, si illanc concriminatus [[sit]] [[advorsum]] Militem, etc. ... Pe. Immo [[optume]], no! [[capital]]! Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 86.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Immo si scias or [[immo]] si audias, if [[you]] [[only]] knew, had [[only]] [[heard]], intimating [[that]] [[such]] is not the [[case]] ([[ante]]-[[class]].): [[immo]] si scias, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 42: St. Scelestissimum Me esse [[credo]]. Pa. Immo si scias dicta, quae dixit [[hodie]], id. Cas. 3, 5, 35; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 64: Ly. Bene [[hercle]] [[factum]] et [[gaudeo]]. De. Immo si scias, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 27; so ellipt., id. Ps. 2, 4, 59; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 38: [[immo]] si audias Meas pugnas, fugias demissis manibus domum, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 15.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf. (perh. not [[before]] the Aug. [[period]]), for vel [[potius]], in the [[middle]] of a [[sentence]], to [[correct]] or [[add]] [[emphasis]] to [[what]] has been said, [[nay]] [[rather]]; [[nay]], I should [[rather]] [[say]]: [[immo]] ita [[sit]], [[nay]], Ov. M. 7, 512: simulacra deum, deos [[immo]] ipsos convulsos ex sedibus suis ablatos esse, Liv. 48, 43, 6: [[ipse]] aliquid, [[immo]] [[multa]] [[quotidie]] dicat, Quint. 2, 2, 8; 6, 2, 10; Plin. [[Pan]]. 85, 5: qui pauculis diebus gestum consulatum, [[immo]] non gestum abiciebant per [[edictum]], id. ib. 65, 3: [[nihil]] causae est, [[cur]] non illam vocis modulationem fidibus ac tibiis, [[immo]] [[hercle]], cymbalis adjuvemus, Quint. 11, 2, 59; Curt. 4, 1: [[immo]] [[vero]], Plin. 34, 1, 1, § 1.—In forming a [[climax]]: quanta verborum nobis [[paupertas]], [[immo]] [[egestas]] [[sit]], Sen. Ep. 58: Agrippinam [[nihilo]] tractabiliorem, [[immo]] in [[dies]] amentiorem, Suet. Aug. 65; Plin. [[Pan]]. 23, 2.!*? Rarely [[after]] a [[word]] in the [[clause]] ([[first]] in Livy): [[nihil]] [[immo]], Liv. 35, 49, 13: non [[immo]], Quint. 11, 1, 50; cf.: non habet [[immo]] suum, Mart. 6, 94, 4: vivit [[immo]] vigetque, Liv. 39, 40, 7: statueretur [[immo]], Tac. A. 12, 6: frueretur [[immo]] his, id. ib. 11, 30: quaedam [[immo]] virtutes, id. ib. 15, 21: illos [[quin]] [[immo]], id. Or. 6; cf.: ipsam [[quin]] [[immo]] curam, id. ib. 39: [[quin]] [[immo]], Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 3; Quint. 1, 1, 31; 12, 11, 27; 7, 10, 8.

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