I. Implying comparison, just so, in like manner, after the same manner, likewise, also (cf.: “ita, pariter, eodem modo): proinde eri ut sint, ipse item sit,” Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 5: “quia mi item ut parentes lucis das tuendi copiam,” id. Capt. 5, 4, 11: “utinam item a principio rei pepercisses meae, ut nunc repercis saviis,” id. Truc. 2, 4, 24: “placuit Scaevolae et Coruncanio, itemque ceteris,” Cic. Leg. 2, 21, 52: “item igitur si sine divinatione non potest,” id. Div. 2, 52, 107: “ita fit, ut non item in oratione, ut in versu numerus exstet,” id. Or. 60: “fecisti item uti praedones solent,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 9, § 21: “item ... quemadmodum, etc.,” id. ib. 2, 2, 22, § “54: item ... quasi murteta juncis, item ego vos virgis circumvinciam,” Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 27; Liv. 39, 19: “item ... atque,” Varr. L. L. 9, 4; Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 71: “parentes vagitu suo paene bis prodidit: semel, cum a nutricis ubere, item cum a sinu matris raptim auferretur,” Suet. Tib. 6.—
B. Esp.: non item, but not: “spectaculum uni Crasso jucundum, ceteris non item,” Cic. Att. 2, 21, 4: “corporum offensiones sine culpa accidere possunt, animorum non item,” id. Tusc. 4, 14, 31: “in libero servant, in libera non item,” id. N. D. 2, 24, 62. —
II. Introducing something additional, without comparison, likewise, besides, also, further, moreover (cf.: “etiam, quoque): postquam amans accessit unus et item alter,” Ter. And. 1, 1, 49: “Ariovistus respondit, jus esse belli, ut, etc.: item populum Romanum victis non ad alterius praescriptum imperare, etc.,” Caes. B. G. 1, 36: legionem Caesar constituit ... item equites Ariovisti pari intervallo constiterunt, id. ib. 1, 43 init.: “Romulus augur cum fratre item augure,” Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107: “ille res in Africa gessit: itemque Mago, ejus frater,” Nep. Han. 7, 1: “ut recessit, sic accessit et abscessit, item, incessit,” Varr. L. L. p. 87 Müll.; so in enumerating, next, again: “item ... tertio ... quarto ...,” Varr. R. R. 1, 16, 3: “semel ... item,” Suet. Tib. 6; id. Claud. 4.
