The difficulty of preserving the effect of the Greek is increased by the want of adversative and inferential particles in English, and by the nice sense of tautology which characterizes all modern languages.
Arnold, we should surely find an adversative conjunction in place of καὶ.
They accordingly emphasize the adversative idea, and are properly Subordinate Adversative Clauses.
Jones points out to me that et can have an adversative sense (OLD et 14a).
Where et alone carries the adversative sense, it is generally used to join two opposing verbs or verbal phrases: compare Cic Tusc I 6 'fieri .
In view of the doubtful status of adversative atque at the time of Ovid and the ease of corruption of atqui to atque I have followed Heinsius in reading atqui.
But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
Cocke and I have felt it in our bones--Gammer Gurton's Needle [Sidenote: With adversative or disjunctive connectives.
For though with the adversative but along with it, it signifieth especially, yet alone (as it is here) it signifies much, greatly.
The word especially is used for a term of distinction, even in those places where the adversative but is not joined to it, as in Tit.
