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(adverb) : nī (old orthography nei
* V.in the foll.), and conj. [identical with ne and the prim. form, whence nisi, i. e. si ni].
* Adv., like ne, an absolutely negative particle, not.—So only in the combinations
* Quid ni? or, in one word, quidni? why not? quid ego ni ita censeam? Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 27: quid ego ni fleam?id. ib. 4, 8, 1: quidni, inquit, meminerim? etc., Auct. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 273 et saep.; v. quidni.
* Conj., like ne, in imperative and intentional clauses, not, that not (ante-class. and poet.): ni quid tibi hinc in spem referas,Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 3: vinum aliudve quid ni laudato, Varr. ap. Non. 281, 31: Numa constituit, ut pisces, qui squamosi non essent, ni pollucerent ... ni qui ad polluctum emerent, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20; cf.: QVEM QVISQVE EORVM AGRVM POSIDEBIT, INVITIS EIS NIQVIS SICET NIVE PASCAT NIVE FRVATVR, etc.,Inscr. Orell. 3121, p. 40: IS EVM AGRVM NEI HABETO NIVE FRVIMINO, ib.: ROGO PER DEOS, NI VELITIS OSSA MEA VIOLARE,Inscr. Grut. 996, 12; Cenotaph. Pis. ap. Inscr. Orell. 643: (lege) edictā flemus diu, ni nos divideret,Prop. 2, 7, 2: obstabat vallum, ni instent acies,Sil. 1, 374 (al. ne): monent ... ni teneant cursus,Verg. A. 3, 686 (antiqui ni pro ne ponebant, Serv. ad loc.).
* As a conditional negative (= si non, nisi), if not, unless, but that.
* In gen.
* With indic.: SI IN IVS VOCAT, NI IT, ANTESTATOR, IGITVR EM CAPITO, if he summon him before court, if he go not, then he shall, etc., Tab. XII. 1 init.: nam ni illum recipit, nihil est quo me recipiam,Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 35: ni offerumentas habebis plures in tergo tuo, etc.,id. Rud. 3, 4, 48: mirum ni domi est,Ter. And. 3, 4, 19: moriar ni puto, etc.,Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 1: ni frustra augurium vani docuere parentes,Verg. A. 1, 392: si is homo moritur, probe factum ... ni moritur, tum, etc.,Liv. 8, 10, 12; 13.
* In partic.
* In formal lang. of law, in agreements, promises, stipulations, etc.: cum is sponsionem fecisset ni vir bonus esset,Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77: judicem ferre, ni vindicias dederit,Liv. 3, 57: tum illud quod dicitur sive nive irrident, etc.,Cic. Caecin. 23, 65: cedo qui cum habeam judicem, Ni dolo malo instipulatus sis. nive etiam dum siem Quinque et viginti annos natus,Plaut. Rud. 5, 3 (4), 25 (v. the passage in connection); so id. ib. 3, 4, 9: id ni fit, mecum pignus, si quis volt, dato in urnam mulsi, that it is not so, bet me, etc., id. Cas. prol. 75; id. Ep. 5, 2, 35; id. Poen. 5, 4, 72.
* Ni quis scivit (if any one has not voted), the name of a centuria created by Servius Tullius for those to vote in who had not voted in their own centuriae, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 177 Müll.—*
* For nisi quod, Amm. 22, 11 fin.
* Ni forte, for nisi forte: ni forte satius est, etc.,Curt. 5, 25, 12 (Foss, nisi), Quint. 11, 2, 27.
* V.in the foll.), and conj. [identical with ne and the prim. form, whence nisi, i. e. si ni].
* Adv., like ne, an absolutely negative particle, not.—So only in the combinations
* Quid ni? or, in one word, quidni? why not? quid ego ni ita censeam? Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 27: quid ego ni fleam?id. ib. 4, 8, 1: quidni, inquit, meminerim? etc., Auct. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 273 et saep.; v. quidni.
* Conj., like ne, in imperative and intentional clauses, not, that not (ante-class. and poet.): ni quid tibi hinc in spem referas,Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 3: vinum aliudve quid ni laudato, Varr. ap. Non. 281, 31: Numa constituit, ut pisces, qui squamosi non essent, ni pollucerent ... ni qui ad polluctum emerent, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20; cf.: QVEM QVISQVE EORVM AGRVM POSIDEBIT, INVITIS EIS NIQVIS SICET NIVE PASCAT NIVE FRVATVR, etc.,Inscr. Orell. 3121, p. 40: IS EVM AGRVM NEI HABETO NIVE FRVIMINO, ib.: ROGO PER DEOS, NI VELITIS OSSA MEA VIOLARE,Inscr. Grut. 996, 12; Cenotaph. Pis. ap. Inscr. Orell. 643: (lege) edictā flemus diu, ni nos divideret,Prop. 2, 7, 2: obstabat vallum, ni instent acies,Sil. 1, 374 (al. ne): monent ... ni teneant cursus,Verg. A. 3, 686 (antiqui ni pro ne ponebant, Serv. ad loc.).
* As a conditional negative (= si non, nisi), if not, unless, but that.
* In gen.
* With indic.: SI IN IVS VOCAT, NI IT, ANTESTATOR, IGITVR EM CAPITO, if he summon him before court, if he go not, then he shall, etc., Tab. XII. 1 init.: nam ni illum recipit, nihil est quo me recipiam,Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 35: ni offerumentas habebis plures in tergo tuo, etc.,id. Rud. 3, 4, 48: mirum ni domi est,Ter. And. 3, 4, 19: moriar ni puto, etc.,Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 1: ni frustra augurium vani docuere parentes,Verg. A. 1, 392: si is homo moritur, probe factum ... ni moritur, tum, etc.,Liv. 8, 10, 12; 13.
* In partic.
* In formal lang. of law, in agreements, promises, stipulations, etc.: cum is sponsionem fecisset ni vir bonus esset,Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77: judicem ferre, ni vindicias dederit,Liv. 3, 57: tum illud quod dicitur sive nive irrident, etc.,Cic. Caecin. 23, 65: cedo qui cum habeam judicem, Ni dolo malo instipulatus sis. nive etiam dum siem Quinque et viginti annos natus,Plaut. Rud. 5, 3 (4), 25 (v. the passage in connection); so id. ib. 3, 4, 9: id ni fit, mecum pignus, si quis volt, dato in urnam mulsi, that it is not so, bet me, etc., id. Cas. prol. 75; id. Ep. 5, 2, 35; id. Poen. 5, 4, 72.
* Ni quis scivit (if any one has not voted), the name of a centuria created by Servius Tullius for those to vote in who had not voted in their own centuriae, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 177 Müll.—*
* For nisi quod, Amm. 22, 11 fin.
* Ni forte, for nisi forte: ni forte satius est, etc.,Curt. 5, 25, 12 (Foss, nisi), Quint. 11, 2, 27.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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