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-ne (-n' or-n) part enclit.

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..

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