aliter; alio modo or pacto, alia ratione (in another manner, under other conditions or circumstances): secus (not so): contra (on the contrary). [☞ Alias means “at another time. “] Not otherwise, sic: not otherwise than, non secus ac, perinde (proinde) ac or atque: it cannot happen otherwise, fieri non potest aliter or fieri aliter non potest (☞ never fieri non aliter potest): it could not happen otherwise than that, etc., fieri non potuit, quin, etc. (☞ aliter fieri non potuit, quam ut etc., is unclassical): it happened otherwise, contra accidit: if it fall out otherwise (i. e., badly), si secus acciderit (Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 5, 57): the matter is quite otherwise, totum contra est: to think otherwise, in alia voluntate esse (to have another opinion): dissentire (to think differently; from another, cum or ab aliquo): to think otherwise than one speaks, aliud sentire et loqui; aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promtum habere (Sall., Cat., 10, 5): he speaks otherwise than he acts, orationi vita dissentit (Sen., Ep., 20, 2): Sometimes “otherwise,” when referring to a substantive, must be rendered by alius; e.g., the boundary must be fixed otherwise, alius finis constituendus est.