num Particle

Translations

  1. what? (in direct questions)
  2. if
  3. whether
  4. now
  5. surely not

Example Sentences

Publius Ovidius Naso

rsit, quam circo taurus aperto, cum sua terribili petit inritamina cornu, poeniceas vestes, elusaque vulnera sentit; num tamen exciderit ferrum considerat hastae: haerebat ligno.

~ Ovid, Metamorphoses XII
Gaius Julius Caesar

Quod si veteris contumeliae oblivisci vellet, num etiam recentium iniuriarum, quod eo invito iter per provinciam per vim temptassent, quod Haeduos, quod Ambarros, quo

~ Cäsar, Bellum Gallicum I
Hyginus

a, ut necessarium sit cohortes circa vallum crebrius ponere, convertimus pedaturam: quod fuerit signis, tabulinum; [sig]num hemistrigii mutabimus ratione tensurae suae.

~ Hygin, Pseudo-: De Munitionibus Castrorum
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

num, tibi cum faucis urit sitis, aurea quaeris pocula?

~ Horaz, Sermonum Liber I

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