BUT, AT LEAST, BUT, AT ALL EVENTS Copy link • BUT, AT LEAST, BUT, AT ALL EVENTSat, at certe or tamen. BUT in objections anticipated (= but it may be said, or urged), at, at enim, at vero. “TRUE BUT” (in concessions), at: at enim (the concession being followed by another consideration that must not be lost sight of). BUT FORSOOTH (in anticipating objections), at vero, at enim. BUT (in the minor premises of a syllogism), atqui: autem. BUT BEHOLD or LO! ecce autem! NAY, BUT; NAY, BUT ASSUREDLY, enimvero, verum enimvero. BUT (when a subject is to be ended or suspended), sed, sometimes verum: bta enough for today, sed - in hunc diem haetenus. I DON’T SAY ... BUT, non modo - sed; non dicam or non dico - sed; ne dicam or nedum [Pract. Intr., ii., 506-508]. NOT ONLY NOT - BUT EVEN NOT, non modo - sed ne - quidem (when a verb, common to both clauses, is expressed in the second): non modo non - sed ne - quidem. Such a man will not dare, not only to do, but even to think anything that is not honorable, talis vir non modo facere, sed ne cogitare quidem quidquam audebit, quod non honestum sit. NOT THAT - BUT (rejecting one reason and affirming another), non quod - sed; non eo quod - sed; non quo - sed (the last bang not only permissible, but of more frequent occurrence than the other forms). NOT THAT - NOT - BUT, non quin - sed; non quo non - sed [Pract. Intr., ii., 811]. BUT YET, BUT HOWEVER, at, attamen, verum tamen. BUT IF, sin, sin autem, si vero: BUT IF NOT, si non, si minus, si aliter. NOT ONLY - BUT ALSO, non modo - sed etiam or vemm etiam; non solum - sed etiam [Vid: Pract. Intr., ii., 504, 505], sometimes sed et (even in Cic.): non tantum - sed etiam. In non tantum - sed or vero etiam, there is never a descent from the greater to the less; and this form can not be used when neither the subject nor the predicate is common to both sentences.