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347. I. The following particles, sometimes classed as Conjunctions, are more properly Adverbs:etiam, also, even. quoque (always post-positive), also. quidem (always post-positive) lays stress upon the preceding word. It is sometimes equivalent to the English indeed, In fact, but more frequently cannot be rendered, except by vocal emphasis. ne ••. quidem means not even; the emphatic word or phrase always stands between; as, ne Ille quidem, not even he. tamen and vera, in addition to their use as Conjunctions, are often employed as Adverbs. 2. Negatives. Two Negatives are regularly equivalent to an affirmative as in English, as non niilli, some; but when non, nemo, nihil, numquam, etc., are accompanied by neque ••. neque, non ... non, non modo, or ne . . . quidem, the latter particles simply take up the negation and emphasize it; as,-
habeo hie nemtnem neque amieum neque cognatum, I have here no one, neither friend nor relatiue. non enim praetereundum est ne id qUidem,/or not even that must be passed by. a. Haud in Cicero and Caesar occurs almost exclusively as a modifier of Adjectives and Adverbs, and in the phrase haud sci~ an. Later writers use it freely with verbs.
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WORD-ORDER.
348. In the normal arrangement of the Latin sentence the Subject stands at the beginning of the sentence, the Predicate at the end; as,Darius
class em quingentarum nAvium comparAvit, ready a fleet of five hundred ships.
Darius got