namque

nam-que (also written nanque ), cong., an emphatic confirmative particle, a strengthened nam, closely resembling that particle in its uses, but introducing the reason or explanation with more assurance; Gr. kai gar, for indeed, for truly, for (class. and freq., only before a vowel, and in Cicero and Cæsar always, like nam, beginning the proposition;

rarely before a consonant, and not in Cæs.,

Cic. Div. 1, 30, 62; id. de Or. 3, 2, 6; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 65; Nep. Them. 6, 2; id. Ages. 2, 1; Sall. J. 41, 5; 85, 35; Hirt. B. G. 8, 28, 4; Ant. ap. Cic. Phil. 13, 20, 45; Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 13, A. 2; and freq. in Liv.; v. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 732 sq.): pol mihi fortuna magis nunc defit quam genus: namque regnum suppetebat mi, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 395 Vahl.):

namque ita me di ament,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 3:

in quo vix dicere audeo, quam multa saecula hominum teneantur. Namque ut olim deficere sol hominibus exstinguique visus est, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

namque illud quare, Scaevola, negāsti? etc.,

id. de Or. 1, 16, 71:

namque hoc praestat amicitia propinquitati, etc.,

id. Lael. 5, 19:

namque tum Thraces eas regiones tenebant,

Nep. Milt. 1, 2; 8, 1; id. Them. 6, 2; id. Alc. 1, 2 al.:

namque umeris suspenderat arcum,

Verg. A. 1, 318; 390:

namque etsi, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 583:

namque est ille, pater quod erat meus,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 41.— Poet., like nam, after an address. Aeole—namque tibi, etc., Verg. A. 1, 65:

pleonastic, namque enim tu, credo, mi imprudenti obrepseris,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 23 (Ritschl, nempe enim).—Placed after a word: is namque numerus, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 10:

virgini venienti in forum (ibi namque in tabernis litterarum ludi erant), etc.,

Liv. 3, 44; 4, 31:

frumentum namque ex Etruriā, etc.,

id. 4, 13, 2; 6, 8, 8; 9, 25, 2;

22, 50, 3: frui namque pace,

id. 4, 9, 2; 5, 11, 6; 6, 4, 8; 9, 37, 1 al.;

omnia namque ista, etc.,

Quint. 9, 4, 32:

mire namque,

id. 9, 2, 29:

pinxere namque effigies herbarum,

Plin. 25, 2, 4, § 8:

duodecim namque populos, etc.,

Flor. 1, 5, 5:

non me impia namque Tartara habent,

Verg. A. 5, 733:

non hoc mihi namque negares,

id. ib. 10, 614.