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|lshtext=<b>ĕt</b>:<br /><b>I</b> conj. [Sanscr. ati, [[beyond]]; Gr. ἔτι, [[besides]], [[yet]]; Lat. et-iam, at-[[avus]], serves to [[connect]], in the [[most]] [[general]] [[manner]], [[single]] words or [[entire]] sentences, and.<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: qui illius impudentiam norat et duritudinem, [[Cato]] ap. Gell. 17, 2, 20: te [[sale]] [[nata]] [[precor]], [[Venus]] et [[genetrix]] patris nostri, Enn. ap. Non. 378, 16 (Ann. v. 53 ed. Vahlen): [[blande]] et [[docte]] percontat, Naev. ap. Non. 474, 7: ut, [[quoad]] possem et liceret, a senis latere [[numquam]] discederem, Cic. Lael. 1, 1: de quo [[praeclare]] et [[multa]] praecipiuntur, id. Or. 21, 70: qui filium consularem clarum virum et magnis rebus gestis amisit, id. Fam. 4, 6; cf.: major ([[frater]]) et qui [[prius]] imperitarat, Liv. 21, 31: haec pueris et mulierculis et servis et servorum simillimis liberis esse grata, Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57 et saep.: salicta locis aquosis, humectis, umbrosis, [[propter]] amnes ibi seri [[oportet]]. Et id videto, uti, etc., [[Cato]], R. R. 9: [[optime]] [[vero]], [[frater]]: et fleri sic [[decet]], Cic. Leg. 2, 3 fin.: [[qua]] de re est [[igitur]] [[inter]] summos viros major [[dissensio]]? Et [[omitto]] [[illa]], quae relicta jam videntur, id. Ac. 2, 42 et saep.<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[subjoin]] a [[word]] or [[phrase]] [[which]] [[more]] [[accurately]] defines or [[more]] [[briefly]] comprehends [[what]] goes [[before]], and [[indeed]], and [[moreover]], and [[that]] [[too]]: te [[enim]] jam [[appello]], et ea voce, ut me exaudire possis, Cic. Mil. 25, 67: at laudat, et [[saepe]], virtutem, id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48; cf.: id, et [[facile]], effici posse, Nep. Milt. 3, 4: errabas, [[Verres]], et [[vehementer]] errabas, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 46, § 121; so [[with]] a [[repetition]] of the [[same]] [[word]]: [[hostis]] et [[hostis]], id. ib. 2, 2, 21, § 51: tenetur, judices, et [[manifeste]] tenetur, id. ib. 2, 3, 65, § 152; id. Cat. 3, 10; id. Deiot. 3; id. Mil. 23, 61 al.; Liv. 26, 13; Sen. de Clem. 15 et saep.: haec nostra ut exigua et minima contemnimus, Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 127; cf. id. ib. 2, 10, 32: nulla [[enim]] nobis [[societas]] cum [[tyrannis]], et [[potius]] [[summa]] [[distractio]] est, id. Off. 3, 6, 32; cf.: [[cur]] eo non estis contenti? et [[cur]] id [[potius]] contenditis, [[quod]]? etc., id. Ac. 2, 17, 74: si te [[ipse]] et tuas cogitationes et studia perspexeris, id. Fin. 2, 21, 69: [[omitto]] [[illa]], quae relicta jam videntur, et Herillum, qui in cognitione et [[scientia]] summum [[bonum]] ponit, id. Ac. 2, 42: Romani, quibus [[Poeni]] et [[Hannibal]] in cervicibus erat, Just. 29, 3, 7: [[studiose]] ab his siderum magnitudines, intervalla, [[cursus]] anquirebantur et cuncta caelestia, Cic. Tusc. 5, 4, 10: [[valde]] a Xenocrate et Aristotele et ab [[illa]] Platonis [[familia]] discreparet, id. Leg. 1, 21, 55 et saep.: et appetendi et refugiendi et [[omnino]] rerum gerendarum initia proficiscuntur aut a voluptate aut a dolore, Cic. Fin. 1, 12, 42. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[connect]] things [[similar]] or [[dissimilar]] [[after]] the words [[aeque]], [[par]], [[idem]], [[similis]], [[alius]], etc. ([[more]] [[commonly]] [[atque]], v. [[atque]], I. 2.), as, [[than]], and: [[nisi]] [[aeque]] amicos et [[nosmet]] ipsos diligamus, Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 67, v. [[aeque]]: omnia fuisse in Themistocle paria et in Coriolano, Cic. Brut. 11, 43; cf.: [[nunc]] tu mihi es [[germanus]] [[pariter]] corpore et [[animo]], Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 34: [[Clodius]] [[eadem]] [[hora]] Interamnae fuerat et Romae, Cic. Mil. 17 fin.; cf. Sall. C. 58, 11: haec [[eodem]] tempore Caesari referebantur, et legati veniebant, etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 37, 1: similem sibi videri vitam hominum et mercatum eum, qui, etc., Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 9; cf.: neu simili [[forma]] et [[quom]], etc., Lucr. 2, 416 and 420: nec ratione [[alia]], et cum, id. 1, 280: non [[enim]] [[alia]] [[causa]] est aequitatis in uno [[servo]] et in pluribus, [[than]], Cic. Caecin. 20, 57; id. Off. 2, 18; id. de Or. 3, 18, 66; id. Cael. 28 fin.; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 3: [[aliter]] doctos (loqui) et indoctos? Cic. Fin. 5, 29 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> To [[connect]] [[two]] [[immediately]] [[successive]] points of [[time]] ([[only]] in poets and historians, esp. [[since]] the Aug. per.; cf. [[atque]], II. C.), [[often]] to be rendered in English by [[when]], and [[then]]: advenit, et navibu' complevit litora, Poeta ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31 fin.: dixit, et [[extemplo]] ... sensit medios [[delapsus]] in hostes, Verg. A. 2, 376: dixit (dixerat), et, id. ib. 1, 402; 2, 705; 3, 258; Val. Fl. 1, 569; Stat. Th. 2, 120 al.; cf.: nec plura [[effatus]] et, Verg. A. 8, 443: sic [[fatus]] et, Stat. Th. 12, 773: nec [[longum]] [[tempus]] et [[ingens]] exiit [[arbos]], Verg. G. 2, 80; cf. Stat. Th. 7, 300; Plin. Ep. 5, 14, 8; Tac. H. 2, 95: vix prima inceperat [[aestas]], Et [[pater]] [[Anchises]] [[dare]] fatis [[vela]] jubebat, Verg. A. 3, 9; so, vix ... et, id. ib. 5, 858; 6, 498; Stat. Th. 2, 293; cf.: [[vixdum]] ... et, Liv. 43, 4, 10; cf. also: [[simul]] haec effatur, et, etc., Luc. 6, 246.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> After an [[imperative]], to [[subjoin]] the [[consequence]] of an [[action]] ([[poet]]. and in postAug. [[prose]]), and [[then]]: dic quibus in terris, et eris mihi [[magnus]] [[Apollo]], Verg. E. 3, 104; Ov. Am. 2, 14, 44; Phaedr. 3, 5, 7; Luc. 4, 487; 2, 515; Sen. de Clem. 1, 16; Plin. [[Pan]]. 43, 3; 45, 6: [[sit]] mihi, [[quod]] [[nunc]] est, [[etiam]] [[minus]]; et mihi vivam Quod superest aevi, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 107.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> To [[subjoin]] the [[minor]] [[proposition]] ([[assumptio]] or [[propositio]] [[minor]]) in a [[syllogism]], [[now]], [[but]] (cf. [[atque]], II.): eorum, qui videntur, [[alia]] vera sunt, [[alia]] falsa: et [[quod]] falsum, id percipi non potest: nullum [[igitur]] est, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 13, 40; id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9; 5, 17; id. N. D. 3, 13, 33 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>F</b> With an [[accessory]] [[affirmative]] [[notion]], and in [[fact]], and [[indeed]], and [[truly]], and so: [[multa]] me sollicitant ... et sexcenta sunt, Cic. Att! 2, 19: et sunt [[illa]] sapientis, id. Tusc. 3, 8 fin.; id. Leg. 2, 3, 7: et erat, ut retuli, clementior, Tac. A. 2, 57: jam [[pridem]] a me illos abducere Thestylis orat; Et faciet, [[quoniam]] sordent [[tibi]] munera nostra, Verg. E. 2, 44 et saep.: estne [[ille]] [[noster]] Parmeno? et [[certe]] ipsus est, Ter. Eun. 5, 6, 4; [[with]] [[certe]], id. Ad. 1, 1, 53; [[with]] [[hercle]], Cic. Brut. 72; id. Fin. 2, 8; id. Fam. 2, 18, 2.—<br /> To [[subjoin]] an [[emphatic]] [[question]] or [[exclamation]]: et sunt qui de via [[Appia]] querantur, taceant de [[curia]]? Cic. Mil. 33, 91; id. Sest. 39, 80; id. Clu. 40, 111; id. Phil. 1, 8 et saep.; Verg. G. 2, 433; id. A. 1, 48; Ov. M. 13, 338 al.: et his tot criminibus testimoniisque [[convictus]] in eorum [[tabella]] spem sibi [[aliquam]] proponit, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16 fin.; id. Mil. 12 fin.; Plin. [[Pan]]. 28, 6; Flor. 4, 2, 89.—Esp. [[with]] [[quisquam]]: et [[quisquam]] dubitabit [[quin]], etc., Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 42 Matthiae; Ov. Am. 3, 8, 1 al.—<br /> To [[connect]] an [[idea]] as [[either]] homogeneous or complementary to [[that]] [[which]] precedes, and so [[too]], and also, and [[moreover]], and at the [[same]] [[time]]; [[too]], also, [[likewise]] ([[hence]], [[often]] in Liv., Curt., and [[late]] Lat., [[rarely]] in Cic., = [[etiam]]; cf. Anton. Stud. pp. 26-69; Krebs, Antibarb. p. 420): Terentia te [[maxime]] diligit salutemque [[tibi]] plurimam ascribit, et [[Tulliola]], [[deliciae]] nostrae, Cic. Att. 1, 5 fin.: Ge. Salvus sis. Di. Et tu [[salve]], Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 44; id. Trin. 1, 2, 11; id. Mil. 4, 8, 42; Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 122; for [[which]]: [[salve]] et tu, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 42;<br /> v. the foll.: haec ipsa mihi sunt voluptati: et erant [[illa]] Torquatis, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 25: ubi [[tunc]] eras? Romae. Verum [[quid]] ad rem? et alii multi, id. Rosc. Am. 33, 92; cf. ib. § 94: et illud videndum [[quanto]] [[magis]] homines [[mala]] fugiant, id. Part. 26: et mihi sunt [[vires]], et mihi facta [[tuba]]'st! Tib. 2, 6, 10; cf. Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 83: [[nihil]] verius. Probe et [[ille]], Cic. Tusc. 4, 34, 73; so, et [[ille]], id. ib. 3, 13 fin.: et [[ipse]], id. Caecin. 20 fin.; so id. de Or. 1, 46, 202; Liv. 1, 12; 6, 3; 41, 24 et saep.; cf.: [[simul]] et [[ille]], Cic. Clu. 4, 10; 17, 48; 57, 155; id. Verr. 2, 5, 1: [[simul]] et [[iste]], id. ib. 2, 1, 41; Sall. J. 20, 1 et saep.: et [[nunc]] ego amore [[pereo]], Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 14; so, et [[nunc]], id. Curc. 4, 2, 7; Cic. Leg. 2, 16, 40; id. Fam. 13, 54, 2; Caes. B. G. 6, 13 fin.; for [[which]]: [[nunc]] et, Hor. C. 1, 4, 11; cf.: [[nonnumquam]] et, Caes. B. G. 1, 15, 3: sunt et, Cic. Top. 6; Verg. A. 9, 136: meruit et, Suet. Caes. 3 et saep.: [[quoniam]] formam cepi hujus in me et statum, Decet et facta moresque hujus habere me similes [[item]], Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 111: nam et qui parat [[pecus]], [[necesse]] est constituat numerum, etc., Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 24: so, nam et, Cic. Leg. 1, 11; 2, 25, 63; id. de Or. 1, 25; id. Off. 1, 40, 142; Liv. 6, 19 al.; cf.: at et, Cic. Tusc. 3, 3: sed et, id. Att. 5, 10 fin.; Quint. 10, 1, 107; and [[with]] a [[preceding]] non [[modo]] or non [[solum]] ([[post]]-Aug.), Tac. G. 15, 35; id. A. 14, 39; Suet. Aug. 89 et saep.; cf.: et ... non = ne ... [[quidem]], ego [[vero]] et in ipsa suffocatione non desii, etc., Sen. Ep. 54, 3: [[ergo]] et, Cic. Fin. 3, 8, 27; id. Leg. 1, 12, 33; id. Div. 1, 50, 114: [[itaque]] et, id. Tusc. 3, 26, 63 et saep.—<br /><b>I</b> When [[repeated]], et ... et, it serves, [[like]] the Gr. καὶ ... καί or τε καί, to [[connect]] [[two]] ideas partitively, [[both]] ... and, as [[well]] ... as, not [[only]] ... [[but]] also: hoc [[etiam]] ad [[malum]] accersebatur [[malum]], Et [[discipulus]] et [[magister]] perhibebantur improbi, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 23; 4, 8, 45: et [[audax]] et [[malus]], id. ib. 4, 9, 25: eloquere utrumque nobis, et [[quid]] [[tibi]] est, et [[quid]] velis nostram operam, id. Cist. 1, 1, 59: ut et [[severitas]] adhibeatur et [[contumelia]] repellatur, Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137: [[dimitto]] (puerum), et ut a magistris ne abducam et [[quod]] [[mater]] discedit, id. Q. Fr. 3, 9 fin.: non et [[legatum]] [[argentum]] est et non est legata numerata [[pecunia]], id. Top. 13 et saep. More [[than]] [[twice]]: quo facilius et hujus hominis innocentissimi miserias et illorum audaciam cognoscere possitis et rei publicae calamitatem, Cic. Rosc. Am. 5 fin.; so [[three]] times, id. Att. 12, 4, 2; id. Q. Fr. 3, 9 fin. et saep.; [[six]] times, Cic. Fam. 13, 25; [[ten]] times, id. de Or. 1, 20, 90.—With a [[subordinate]] que or [[atque]]: nam et [[semper]] me coluit diligentissimeque observavit et a studiis nostris non abhorret, Cic. Fam. 13, 22; [[with]] [[atque]], id. de Or. 1, 21, 95.—Et ... que are [[sometimes]] used for et ... et ([[rarely]] in Cic.; freq. in Liv. and [[post]]-Aug. writers): [[quis]] est [[quin]] intellegat et eos inmemores fuisse, nosque honestate duci? Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 64; id. Brut. 88, 302: id et singulis universisque [[semper]] honori fuisse, Liv. 4, 2; 5, 46 fin.; 24, 2 fin.; 32, 32 fin.; Tac. Agr. 2 fin.; Suet. Ner. 33 al.—Sometimes the [[second]] et subjoins a [[more]] [[weighty]] [[assertion]]; in [[which]] [[case]] et ... et = cum ... tum, not [[only]] ... [[but]] also: [[homo]] et in aliis causis [[exercitatus]] et in hac [[multum]] et [[saepe]] versatus, Cic. Quint. 1, 3; id. Fat. 1, 2; id. de Or. 1, 9, 38; id. Off. 2, 11, 38.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Et ... [[neque]] or [[neque]] ... et, [[when]] one [[clause]] is a [[negative]] ([[but]] et ... et non, et non ... et, [[when]] [[only]] one [[word]] is negatived): ego [[vero]] et exspectabo ea quae polliceris [[neque]] exigam, [[nisi]] tuo [[commodo]], Cic. Brut. 4 fin.: ego si et [[Silius]] is fuerit, quem tu putas nec [[Drusus]] facilem se praebuerit, Damasippum velim aggrediare, id. Att. 12, 33: cui [[quidem]] ita sunt Stoici assensi, ut et, [[quicquid]] honestum esset, id utile esse censerent, nec utile [[quicquam]], [[quod]] non honestum, id. Off. 3, 3, 11: pueris nobis Cn. [[Aufidius]] [[praetorius]] et in senatu sententiam dicebat nec amicis deliberantibus deerat et Graecam scribebat historiam et videbat in litteris, id. Tusc. 5, 38 fin.: [[quia]] et [[consul]] aberat ... nec, etc., Liv. 22, 8 et saep.: nec [[miror]] et [[gaudeo]], Cic. Fam. 10, 1 fin.: nam nec in eo jus cognationis servavit, cui ademit [[regnum]], et eum, cui dedit, etc., Just. 8, 6 fin.: id et nobis erit perjucundum et [[tibi]] non [[sane]] devium, Cic. Att. 2, 4 fin.: [[locus]] is [[melior]], quem et non coquit sol et tangit ros, Varr. R. R. 3, 14.— Rarely [[neque]] ... et = non [[quidem]] ... sed: amicitias [[neque]] [[facile]] admisit et constantissime retinuit, Suet. Aug. 66.—<br /> Less freq., tum ... et, et ... tum, in the [[same]] [[sense]]: [[omnis]] ejus [[oratio]] tum in virtute laudanda et in hominibus ad virtutis [[studium]] cohortandis consumebatur, Cic. Ac. 1, 4, 16: et in ceteris eloquentiae partibus, tum [[maxime]] in celeritate et continuatione verborum adhaerescens, etc., id. Brut. 93, 320. See Hand Turs. II. pp. 467-540.

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