2. prep, praeter, with an accusative in negative and general propositions: extra, with an accusative: praeterquam (adverb, except): nisi ( “if not,” “unless,” after negations and in negative questions; Vid: Zumpt, § 735): cum discesseris ab aliquo, ab aliqua re (i. e., after you have left that) etc.: excepto, excepta, exceptis (being excepted): all the enemy, except some few, were taken alive, paucis ex hominum numero desideratis, cuncti vivi capiebantur: philosophers maintain that no one except the philosopher is a perfect man, philosophi negant, quemquam virum bonum esse, nisi sapientem: except that, nisi quod (Cic., Fam. 13, 1, etc.): praeterquam quod (Vid: Zumpt, § 627): excepto quod (☞ this is rare): except in case of, extra quam si (especially in forms of exception; Vid: Cic., ad Att., 6, 1, 15): praeterquam si (Plin., 8, 25, 39): excepto, si (Persius, 5, 90): nisi, nisi si (if not, unless, only in case that; Vid: Zumpt, § 343): cf., Non nisi should not be written as one word; they very seldom even stand together [Cic., Verr., 1, 39, 98, is an exception]: you wrote nothing to me except what was perfectly true, tu, nisi quod verum erat, profecto non scripsisti (the nisi generally, but by no means always, precedes): except one, or at the most two, excepto uno aut ad summum altero: all except you two, omnes, exceptis vobis duobus.