Latin conjunction
atque
atque is a Latin conjunction. In the 7 analysed lines it was read in, it means “and”.
In the texts
Each line as the reader shows it: every word in its case colour with its meaning underneath, and arcs from atque to the words it goes with.
Atque ita correptum lacerat iniusta nece.
And so, having been seized, she tears him with unjust slaughter.
Atque: joins lacerat to what comes before.
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis.
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love, and let us value all the rumors of stricter old men as worth but a single penny.
atque: joins amemus to what comes before.
multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.
and having suffered much also in war, until he founded a city, and brought his gods to Latium, whence came the Latin race, and the Alban fathers, and the walls of high Rome.
atque: joined with genus.
Tum, cum uxores ipse et populus suus non haberent, invitavit ad spectaculum ludorum vicinas urbi Romae nationes atque earum virgines rapuit.
Then, since he himself and his people had no wives, he invited to a spectacle of games the nations neighboring the city of Rome, and he seized their maidens.
atque: joins invitavit to what comes before.
Id cum libenter accepissem atque ab eo petere coepissem ne dubitaret ducere, tum ille ‘Faciam,’ inquit, ‘si mihi fidem quam postulo dederis.’
When I had gladly accepted that and had begun to beg it from him that he should not hesitate to lead, then he said, “I will do it, if you give me the trust that I ask for.”
atque: joins petere to what comes before.
et Pompei Crassique potentia cito in Caesarem, Lepidi atque Antonii arma in Augustum cessere, qui cuncta discordiis civilibus…
And the power of Pompey and Crassus quickly passed to Caesar, and the arms of Lepidus and Antony passed to Augustus, who received all things exhausted by civil discords under his rule under the name of princeps.
atque: joins Antonii to what comes before.
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe…
Of all these, the Belgians are the bravest, because they are furthest removed from the civilization and refinement of the province, and merchants least often travel to them and import those things which pertain to weakening their spirits, and they are nearest to the Germans, who live across the Rhine, with whom they continually wage war.
atque: joins humanitate to what comes before.
Forms
Every form of the word in these texts, with what it is.
| Form | Grammar | Read |
|---|---|---|
| atque | Conjunction | 8 |