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ique jactantur, _when people are tossed about with heat and fever_. c) atque (ac) usually emphasizes the second of the two things connected,--_and also, and indeed, and in fact_. After words of _likeness_ and _difference_, atque (ac) has the force of _as_, _than_. Thus:-- ego idem sentio ac tu, _I think the same as you_; haud aliter ac, _not otherwise than_. d) neque (nec) means _and not_, _neither_, _nor_. 2. a) -que is an enclitic, and is appended always to the second of two words connected. Where it connects phrases or clauses, it is appended to the first word of the second clause; but when the first word of the second clause is a Preposition, -que is regularly appended to the next following word; as,-- ob eamque rem, _and on account of that thing_. b) atque is used before vowels and consonants; ac never before vowels, and seldom before c, g, qu. c) et non is used for neque when the emphasis of the negative rests upon a special word; as,-- vetus et non ignobilis orator, _an old and not ignoble orator_. d) For _and nowhere_, _and never_, _and none_, the Latin regularly said nec usquam, nec umquam, nec ullus, etc. 3. Correlatives. Copulative Conjunctions are frequently used correlatively; as,-- et ... et, _both ... and_; neque (nec) ... neque (nec), _neither ... nor_; cum ... tum, _while ... at the same time_; tum ... tum, _not only ... but also_. Less frequently:-- et ... neque; neque ... et. a. Note that the Latin, with its tendency to emphasize antithetical relations, often uses correlatives, especially et ... et, et ... neque, neque ... et, where the English employs but a single connective. 4. In enumerations-- a) The different members of a series may follow one another without connectives (Asyndeton; see Sec. 346). Thus:-- ex cupiditatibus odia, discidia, discordiae, seditiones, bella nascuntur, _from covetous desires spring up hatred, dissension, discord, sedition, wars_. b) The different members may severally be connected by et (Polysyndeton). Thus:-- horae cedunt et dies et menses et anni, _hours and days and months and years pass away_. c) The connective may be omitted between the former members, while the last two are connected by -que (rarely et); as,-- Caesar in Carnutes, Andes Turonesque legiones deducit, _Caesar leads his legions
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