Lewis Short
(prep.adv.adj.) : ălĭōquī (Corssen, Ausspr. II. p. 839, questions the MS. authority for the forms ălĭ-ōquin and cĕtĕrōquin, but if they are genuine, he believes they have the prep. in affixed, as in deoin), adv. (prop. abl. alioqui, i. e. alio quo modo
* In some other way; used in the ante-Aug. per. only once in Lucr.; but freq. after that per., esp. by the histt., and by Pliny the younger).
* Lit., to indicate that something has its existence or right in all but the exception given, in other respects, for the rest, otherwise; Gr. ἄλλως, often with adj. standing either before or after it: milites tantum, qui sequerentur currum, defuerunt: alioqui magnificus triumphus fuit,Liv. 37, 46 Madv.; 8, 9: Hannibal tumulum tutum commodumque alioqui, nisi quod longinquae aquationis erat, cepit,id. 30, 29, 10: atqui si vitiis mediocribus ac mea paucis Mendosa est natura, alioquin recta,Hor. S. 1, 6, 66 K. and H.: solitus alioquin id temporis luxus principis intendere,Tac. A. 13, 20 Halm; so id. ib. 4, 37; Curt. 7, 4, 8; 8, 2, 2.—Sometimes concessive, hence also with quamquam, quamvis, cum, as for the rest, besides: triumphatum de Tiburtibus: alioqui mitis victoria fuit, i. e. although in other respects the victory was, etc., Liv. 7, 19: at si tantula pars oculi media illa peresa est, Incolumis quamvis alioqui splendidus orbis (al though in other respects uninjured and clear) occidit extemplo lumen, Lucr. 3, 414 (Lachmann rejected this line; Munro receives it and reads alioquoi): ideo nondum eum legi, cum alioqui validissime cupiam,Plin. Ep. 9, 35 Keil; so Plin. 10, 69, 93, § 198.
* Transf.
* To indicate that something exists, avails, or has influence in other cases beside those mentioned, yet, besides, moreover (syn.: porro, praeterea): sed haec quidem alioquin memoria magni professoris, uti interponeremus, effecit,Cels. 8, 4: ne pugnemus igitur, cum praesertim plurimis alioqui Graecis sit utendum,very many other Greek words besides,Quint. 2, 14, 4 Halm: non tenuit iram Alexander, cujus alioqui potens non erat,of which he had not the control at other times,Curt. 4, 2, 6; Tac. H. 3, 32: quā occasione Caesar, validus alioquin spernendis honoribus hujuscemodi orationem coepit,id. A. 4, 37.—So in questions, Quint. 4, 5, 3.—Also et alioqui in Pliny: afficior curā; et alioqui meus pudor, mea dignitas in discrimen adducitur, Plin Ep. 2, 9, 1; so id. ib. 10, 42, 2; id. Pan. 45, 4; 68, 7; 7, 9.—And in copulative clauses with et ... et, cum ... tum, etc., both in general (or in other respects) ... and: et alioqui opportune situm, et transitus eā est in Labeates,Liv. 43, 19: mors Marcelli cum alioqui miserabilis fuit, tum quod, etc.,id. 27, 27, 11; so Quint. 5, 6, 4; 12, 10, 63.
* To indicate that something is in itself situated so and so, or avails in a certain manner, in itself, even in itself, himself, etc.: corpus, quod illa (Phryne) speciosissima alioqui (in herself even most beautiful) diductā nudaverat tunicā, Quint. 2, 15, 9 Spald.; 10, 3, 13; 2, 1, 4.
* Ellipt. like the Gr. ἄλλως, and commonly placed at the beginning of a clause, to indicate that something must happen, if the previous assertion or assumption shall not be (which fact is not expressed), otherwise, else (cf. aliter, b. γ): vidistine aliquando Clitumnum fontem? si nondum (et puto nondum: alioqui narrāsses mihi),Plin. Ep. 8, 8; 1, 20: Nec, si pugnent inter se, qui idem didicerunt, idcirco ars, quae utrique tradita est, non erit; alioqui nec armorum, etc.,Quint. 2, 17, 33; so id. 4, 2, 23: non inornata debet esse brevitas, alioqui sit indocta,id. 4, 2, 46: Da mihi liberos, alioquin moriar,Vulg. Gen. 30, 1; ib. Matt. 6, 1; ib. Heb. 9, 17: languescet alioqui industria, si nullus ex se metus aut spes,Tac. A. 2, 38.
* (Eccl. Lat.) As an advers. conj., but (cf. ceterum and the Gr. ἀλλά): alioquin mitte manum tuam et tange os ejus et carnem,Vulg. Job, 2, 5. Cf. Hand, Turs. I. pp. 234-241.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary