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  "headword": "nam",
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          "label": "I",
          "definition": "I. Introducing an explanation, \n                for\n             (in prose beginning the sentence, except when enclitic with an \n                interrog\n            . word): is pagus appellabatur Tigurinus, nam civitas in pagos divisa est,\n                Cs.: Pauca . . . Expediam dictis; prohibent nam cetera\n                Parcae Scire, V.: Belua multorum es capitum;\n                nam quid sequar?\n            H.—Introducing a parenthesis, \n                for certainly, but\n            : colenda iustitia est, cum ipsa per sese (nam\n            aliter iustitia non esset), tum, etc.—Resuming the thought after a\n            parenthesis: simul atque cognovit (audi, audi, atque attende . . .), nam simul ac me\n            audivit, etc. —With \n                illud or quod\n            , introducing a minor consideration or an exception, \n                for, but\n            : bene, quod Mens, Fides consecratur . . . nam illud vitiosum\n                Athenis, quod fecerunt Contumeliae fanum.—Introducing an example\n            or illustration, \n                for example, for instance\n            : sed vivo Catone multi oratores floruerunt. Nam et A.\n                Albinus . . . Nam Q. Metellus, etc.—",
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          "label": "II",
          "definition": "II. Introducing a reason, \n                for, seeing that, inasmuch as\n            : celebratote illos dies; nam multi saepe honores dis\n                inmortalibus iusti habiti sunt, sed, etc.: alias urbīs condidere\n            . . . nam de Carthagine silere melius puto quam parum dicere, S.: una domus erat . . . nam quid ego de studiis dicam cognoscendi\n            semper aliquid, etc.: Iuppiter, hospitibus nam te dare iura loquuntur, V.:\n                Mercuri (nam te docilis magistro Movit Amphion lapides\n            canendo), etc., H.—In replies, introducing the reason for\n            an implied answer, \n                for, for assuredly, certainly: Sa\n            . tamen tibi a me nullast orta iniuria . . . \n                Ae\n            . Nam hercle etiam hoc restat, i. e. (not yet); \n                for that is to come hereafter\n            , T.: nos hunc Heracliensem . . . de\n                nostrā civitate eiciemus? Nam si quis putat . . . vehementer\n            errat.—In a rhetorical climax, with \n                ne . . . quidem\n            : in corpora ipsorum, in liberos contumeliae editae. Nam\n                avaritia ne sacrorum quidem spoliatione abstinuit, \n                nay . . . not even\n            , L.—In eager questions, beginning a clause, \n                why?\n            : Nam quae haec anus est, exanimata a fratre quae egressa'st\n                meo?\n            T.—As enclitic with an interrogative: quisnam igitur tuebitur P.\n            Scipionis memoriam mortui?: in incerto habuere, quidnam consili caperent, S.:\n                num nam haec audivit?\n            T.: quis est nam ludus in undis, V.",
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