sīve
Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch:
sī-ve (altlateinisch seive) und se͡u, Konjunktion
I)oder wenn
si media nox est sive est prima vesperaPlaut.
si omnes declinabunt, sive aliae declinabunt etc.Cic.
si arborum trunci sive naves essent a barbaris missaeCaes.
si speras, seu tibi confidis etc.Plaut.
dehinc postulo, sive aequumst, te oro, ut etc.Ter.
me, seu corpus spoliatum lumine mavis, redde meisVerg.
II)mit vorherrschendem disjunktivem Sinn
a)doppelt: sive … sive und seu … seu, es sei nun, dass … oder dass; mag nun … oder mag; wenn entweder … oder wenn; entweder … oder
mit besonderem Verbum bei jedem sive
sive tu medicum adhibueris (Futur exakt), sive non adhibueris (Futur exakt)Cic.
seu clam nuntio misso a Carthagine, uti fieret, seu Hasdrubale sine publica fraude auso facinusLiv.
mit Konjunktiv
sive accuratam meditatamque profert orationem … sive novam et recentem curam attuleritTac. dial.
und in der oratio obliqua
sive fecisset, sive voluissetCic.
seu maneant, seu proficiscanturCaes.
oder mit gemeinschaftlichem Verbum
sive deus sive natura ademeratCic.
sive casu sive consilio deorumCaes.
seu recte seu perperam facere coeperunt, ita in utroque excellunt, ut etc.Cic.
mit Konjunktiv
seu manibus in assurgendo seu genu se adiuvissentLiv.
intentus sive Etruria se interim, ut nuper, sive nova haec cura, Latini atque Hernici moverint, ob etwa … oderLiv.
sive … seuVerg.Liv.und andere
und so auch
sive quia … seu quiaLiv.
seu … siveVerg.Ov.und andere
mehrmals wiederholt
sive … sive … siveCic.
seu … sive … siveOv.
sive … sive … sive … seuPlaut.
mit anderen Disjunktivpartikeln
seu … autVerg.
sive … sive … velFlor.
sive … vel … siveTac.
mit Fragepartikeln
ne … seuVerg.
sive … anTac.
sive … seu … anTac.
b)einfach = oder
regis Philippi sive PersaeCic.
proelio sive naufragioIustin.
nuntios seu potius PegasosCic.
matri seu novercaeLiv.
☞vulgärlateinische Nebenform sibeEdict. Diocl. 4, 3 und 45; 6, 40 in Inschriften
Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary:
sī-ve or seu, conjunction, or if (cf. vel si)
postulo, sive aequomst, te oro, ut, etc.Ter.
ut mihi Platonis illud, seu quis dixit alius (i.e. vel si quis), or whoever else said itCic.
Bis denas Italo texamus robore navīs, Seu plurīs complere valent, etc.Verg.
turdus, Sive aliud privum dabitur tibi, devolet illucHor.
When, of two or more suppositions, it is indifferent which is true or accepted; in the formula, si . . . sive, or si . . . seu, if . . . or if
Si ista uxor sive amica estTer.
si nocte sive luce, si servus sive liber faxitLiv.
si arborum trunci, sive naves essent a barbaris missaeCaes.
In the formula, sive . . . sive, or seu . . . seu (poet. also sive . . . seu, or seu . . . sive), be it that . . . or that, if . . . or if, whether. . . or
sive retractabis; sive properabisCic.
sive regi sive optimatibus serviantCic.
seu periculi magnitudine seu animi mobilitate inpulsiSall.
Sive deae seu sint dirae volucresVerg.
Often more than twice
sive Sulla sive Marius sive uterque sive Octavius sive qui alius . . . eum detestabilem iudicoCic.
With ellipsis of sive in the first clause (poet.)
Quo non arbiter Hadriae Maior, tollere seu ponere volt fretaHor.
The suppositions are sometimes followed, each by its own conclusion
nam sive timuit, quid ignavius? sive meliorem suam causam fore putavit, quid iniustius?Cic.
eos seu dedi placeat, dedere se paratos esse, seu supplicio adfici, daturos poenasLiv.
When the second supposition is presented as contrary to the first, it may be introduced, after sive, by sin or si vero
sive sensus exstinguitur . . . quis me beatior? sin vera sunt, etc.Cic.
sive enim abscedant, cui dubium esse quin . . . sin autem manendum ibi nihilo minus sitLiv.
sive enim Zenonem sequare, magnum est efficere . . . si vero Academiam veterem persequamur, etc.Cic.
Correlative with aut or ne (poet.)
(saxum) seu turbidus imber Proluit, aut annis solvit sublapsa vetustas, whether . . . orVerg.
Substitit, erravitne viā, seu lassa resedit, Incertum, whether . . . orVerg.
As a simple disjunctive, or
quid perturbatius hoc ab urbe discessu, sive potius turpissimā fugā?Cic.
remotis sive omnino missis lictoribusCic.
te rogo . . . resistas sive etiam occurras negotiisCic.
Introducing an alternative which is preferred, or rather, or more accurately, or as I should say
eiecto sive emisso iam ex urbe Catilinā, ille arma misitCic.
urbem matri seu novercae relinquitLiv.
quam (sagittam) Parthus sive Cydon torsitVerg.
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