I.I. adv., added in a direct question,
as an interrogation mark, to the first or principal word of the clause: meministine
me in senatu dicere?
do you remember?
etc.: potestne rerum maior esse dissensio?: quiane auxilio iuvat ante
levatos? V.—Affixed to an interrogative pronoun: Quone malo
mentem concussa? timore deorum, H.: ūterne
Ad casūs dubios fidet sibi certius?
H.—Expecting an affirmative answer: rectene interpretor
sententiam tuam?—Expecting a negative answer: potestne virtus servire?:
potesne dicere?—
II.II. As conj., in an indirect
question,
whether
: ut videamus, satisne ista sit iusta defectio: Publilius
iturusne sit in Africam scire. —Pleonastic with utrum,
followed by
an
: est etiam illa distinctio, utrum illudne non videatur
aegre ferendum . . . an, etc.—In the second alternative of
an interrogation,
or
(for an): Smyrna quid et Colophon? maiora minorane fama? H.:
ut in incerto fuerit, vicissent victine essent,
L.— Repeated,
whether . . . or
: neque interesse, ipsosne interficiant impedimentisne
exuant, Cs.: Collectosne bibant
imbrīs puteosne, H..