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sīn ,
I.conj. [apocop. from si-ne], an adversative conditional particle, if however, if on the contrary, but if (good prose).
I. With a preceding si, nisi, quando, dum.
A. After si.
2. In the epistolary style also, ellipt., sin (for sin aliter or sin minus): “si pares aeque inter se, quiescendum: sin, latius manabit,Cic. Att. 16, 13, b, 2.—
3. Strengthened,
(α). By autem: “si malus est ... sin autem frugi'st, etc.,Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 6; cf.: “id si ita est, etc. ... sin autem illa veriora,Cic. Lael. 4, 14; Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 44; 5, 2, 14; Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 142; id. Att. 3, 8, 6 and 7; Just. 16, 4, 14; 31, 5, 7 al.; cf.: “si sunt viri boni, me adjuvant ... sin autem minus idonei, me non laedunt,Cic. Caecin. 1, 3; so id. Div. in Caecil. 11, 34; and in epistolary style, ellipti.: si vir esse volet, praeclara συνοδία: sin autem erimus nos, qui solemus id. Att. 10, 7, 2.—So freq. in Vulg.: “si est tibi intellectus, responde proximo: sin autem, sit manus tua super os tutum,Vulg. Ecclus. 5, 14; 29, 8; id. Luc. 10, 6; id. Apoc. 2, 5.—
(β). Less freq. by vero: si sit ovis matura ... sin vero feta, Col. 7, 3, 11.—*
C. After quando: “quando abiit rete pessum, adducit lineam: sin jecit recte, etc.,Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 16 (Speng. si injecit).—*
II. Without a preceding si, nisi, etc. (where the foregoing particle is usu. clearly implied by the context).
B. In epistolary style, ellipt.: “ego, ut constitui, adero: atque utinam tu quoque eodem die! Sin quidmulta enimutique postridie,Cic. Att. 13, 22, 4.—
C. Strengthened,
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