conj., introducing an antithesis to what precedes, or: omnia bene sunt dicenda ... aut eloquentiae nomen relinquendum est: quibusnam manibus aut quibus viribus, Cs.: cita mors venit aut victoria laeta, H.: ruminat herbas aut sequitur, V. — So introducing successive alternatives: quo iure aut quo more aut quā lege, or ... or: Hispanorum aut Gallorum aut Threcum mille.— Introducing two alternatives, aut ... aut, either ... or: ubi enim potest illa aetas aut calescere, aut refrigerari?: per unam aut vivam aut moriar sententiam, T.: aut morte aut victoriā: ne immanitas aut extitisse aut non vindicata esse videatur: neque enim sunt aut obscura aut non multa post commissa: nihil est tam aut fragile aut flexibile, quam, etc. — Introducing three or more clauses: aut equos Alere aut canes ad venandum, aut ad philosophos, T. — With two pairs of disjunctive clauses: ne aut de Laelii aut de huius generi aut arte aut gloriā detraham. — Praegn., adding an emphatic alternative, or surely, or at least: quaero, num iniuste aut improbe fecerit, or at least unfairly: profecto cuncti aut magna pars fidem mutavissent, S.: quid ergo aut hunc prohibet, aut etiam Xenocratem, etc.: aut libertatem aut certe inpunitatem adeptus, L.—Emphatic, or else, otherwise, in the contrary case: Redduc uxorem, aut quam ob rem non opus sit cedo, T.: nunc manet insontem gravis exitus: aut ego veri Vana feror, V. — Correcting what precedes, or, or rather, or more accurately: de hominum genere, aut omnino de animalium loquor. — Beginning a sentence: Aut, ita qui sentiet, non apertissime insaniat? or is not rather, etc.—With potius: erravit, aut potius insanavit Apronius? — Neque ... aut (for neque ... neque): nec coniugis umquam Praetendi taedas aut haec in foedera veni, V.: nec litore tenus adcrescere aut resorberi, Ta.; cf. non eo dico, quo mihi veniat in dubium tua fides, aut quo, etc.
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