I.conj.
I. ( = et ita.) And so, and thus, and accordingly: “ita dolui, itaque ego nunc doleo,” Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 45: “si cetera ita sunt ut vis, itaque ut esse ego illa existimo,” Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 28: “cum quaestor in Sicilia fuissem, itaque ex ea provincia discessissem, ut, etc.,” Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1: “ita constitui, fortiter esse agendum, itaque feci,” id. Clu. 19, 51; id. Deiot. 7, 19: “ita nostri acriter in hostes, signo dato, impetum fecerunt, itaque hostes repente celeriterque procurrerunt,” Caes. B. G. 1, 52: “illud tempus exspectandum decreverunt, itaque fecerunt,” Nep. Alc. 4, 2; Caes. B. G. 1, 10.—
II. And so, accordingly, therefore, for that reason, consequently (for syn. cf. igitur, idcirco, ideo, ergo): “itaque ipse mea legens, sic adficior interdum,” Cic. Lael. 1: “itaque rem suscipit et a Sequanis impetrat,” Caes. B. G. 1, 9; id. B. C. 2, 7; Tac. Agr. 10.—
(β).
Occupying the second or third place in the sentence (very rare, and not before the Aug. period): “versis itaque subito voluntatibus,” Liv. 34, 34 fin.; so, “edicimus itaque omnes,” id. 3, 20, 4: “quaero itaque,” Curt. 7, 10, 7; and: “nunc itaque,” Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10: “pro ingenti itaque victoria,” Liv. 4, 54, 6; so id. 6, 17, 8; 32, 16, 7.— “In the fourth place: omnium sententiis absolutus itaque est,” Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 43.—
B. Adding an example or argument, accordingly, in like manner, in this manner: “nihil opus (est philosophum) litteras scire. Itaque, ut majores nostri ab aratro Cincinnatum abduxerunt, etc.,” Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12: “principes sunt simplices ... itaque aër et ignis et aqua et terra prima sunt,” id. Ac. 1, 7, 26: “itaque hoc frequenter dici solet,” in like manner, id. Fin. 2, 4, 11.—
C. Itaque ergo, and hence therefore, and so for that reason: “itaque ergo amantur,” Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 25; Liv. 1, 25, 2 Drak.; 3, 31, 5; 39, 25, 11 al.
