conj., adding an independent and emphatic
clause, as a reason, explanation, or corroboration, for, for truly, and indeed, because,
since: etenim iste non audebat, etc.: etenim quid est, quod
amplius exspectes?—In tmesi: Et meministis enim, V.—Introducing a
parenthesis: legationis princeps est Heius (etenim est primus civitatis), ne forte,
etc.—After a word (poet.): Divinare etenim mihi donat Apollo, H.: Tutus bos etenim rura perambulat, H.
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