Meaning of sic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. yes, indeed (If answering a question)
   not-comparable
2. thus, so, like this, in this way
   not-comparable
3. as stated or as follows, to this effect
   not-comparable
4. in such a (good or bad) way, like that, so much
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Ut ager, quamvīs fertilis, sine cultūrā frūctuōsus esse nōn potest, sīc sine doctrīnā animus.”

Just as the field, however fertile, without cultivation cannot be fruitful, likewise the soul without education.

“Sīc, sīc iuvat īre sub umbrās.”

“Thus, in this way it pleases me to pass beneath the shadows.” (Dido’s final words include the doubly emphatic “sic, sic”; translations vary. Servius the Grammarian, in his Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil, understood it as the moment Dido falls upon the sword of Aeneas.)

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