haud

Definitiones

scarcely; hardly; by no means; not; not at all

not-comparable

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Haud ambiguē tum in eum, cui rēgnum dēstinābātur, ingessit probra.”

Then in plain language he heaped abuse upon the one to whom the throne was being awarded. (literally, “with no ambiguity”)

“Haud istūc rogō. Fuistīn līber? – Fuī. That's hardly what I’m asking about. Were you a freeman? – I was.”

“… super exuviās ēnsemque relictum / effigiemque torō locat, haud ignāra futūrī.”

Atop [the pyre]: his armor, and the sword he left behind, and an effigy [of Aeneas] — on the bed [they had shared, Dido] places [these things], by no means unaware of what is about to happen. (Exemplifies litotes: In other words, only Dido knows well that these preparations for the magic ritual are part of what will become her own funeral pyre.)

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