Atque

Latin-English

atque or (before consonants) ac. (ˈat.kʷe) conj.

1. And also.

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 11.12:

Ego ei ne quid apud te obsim, id te vehementer etiam atque etiam rogo.

I ask you urgently, again and again, not to let me be a hindrance in anything between you and him.

• βʹ Cicero, De Domo Sua 57.144:

Quocirca te, Capitoline, quem propter beneficia populus Romanus Optimum, propter vim Maximum nominavit, teque, Iuno Regina, et te, custos urbis, Minerva, quae semper adiutrix consiliorum meorum, testis laborum exstitisti, precor atque quaeso....

And so, Capitoline, I pray and beg of you, whom the Roman people have named Best because of your kindnesses and Greatest because of your power, and you, Queen Juno, and you, Minerva, guardian of the city, who have always stood forth as helper in my decisions and witness to my labors...

• γʹ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 21.6:

Haec sententia, quae tutissima videbatur, vicit; legatique eo maturius missi, P. Valerius Flaccus et Q. Baebius Tamphilus, Saguntum ad Hannibalem atque inde Carthaginem si non absisteretur bello ad ducem ipsum in poenam foederis rupti deposcendum.

This opinion, which seemed safest, prevailed; and so the envoys, Publius Valerius Flaccus and Quintus Baebius Tamphilus, were sent all the sooner to Hannibal at Sagunto—and then to Carthage, if war were not ended, to demand the general himself as punishment for the treaty being broken.

• δʹ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 7.10:

uno alteroque subinde ictu ventrem atque inguina hausit, et in spatium ingens ruentem porrexit hostem.

With one stroke after another he pulled out guts and groin, spreading his falling enemy out over an enormous space.

• εʹ Cicero, De Finibus 2.1:

Is enim percontando atque interrogando elicere solebat eorum opiniones, quibuscum disserebat, ut ad ea, quae ii respondissent, si quid videretur, diceret.

He used to draw out the opinions of the people he was conversing with by inquiry and questioning, in order to say whatever seemed right in response to the answers they returned.

• στʹ Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.18:

Si tamen una ex tribus artibus habenda sit, quia maximus eius usus actu continetur atque est in eo frequentissima, dicatur activa vel administrativa; nam et hoc eiusdem rei nomen est.

If [public speaking] has to be considered as one of these three arts, though, then since its main use is in an act, and it is most frequently found in that act, it should be called an active art—or a performing art, which is another name for the same thing.