namely Copy link Outline 1. expr. by apposition of subs.2. when greater emphasis is needed3. scīlĭcet (not so in good authors)4. introducing an entire sentence illustrative of something that has gone before, nam • namely: 1. expr. by apposition of subs.: two most powerful cities, n., Carthage and Corinth, duae potentissimae urbes, Carthago et Corinthus, Cic. Man. 20, 60: these most base and inconsistent vices, n., luxury and avarice, pessuma ac diversa inter se mala, luxuria atque avaritia, Sall. Cat. 5: cf. ib. 9, duabus his artibus, audacia in bello; ubi pax evenerat, aequitate, these two virtues, namely, ...: et pass. 2. when greater emphasis is needed: dīco (I mean to say): cf. Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 86, ea quae timenda esse negaret, mortem dico et deos, i. e. namely, death and the gods: cf. id. Tusc. 1, 32, 78, amicos nostros Stoicos ..., eos dico, qui dicunt, etc. In similar sense, Hor. has inquam: cetera turba, nos inquam (namely, ourselves), Sat. 2, 8, 27. 3. scīlĭcet (not so in good authors): cf. Suet. Aug. 29, quaedam opera alieno nomine, nepotum scilicet et uxoris sororisque, i. e. namely, that of his grandsons, etc. (N.B.--A usage to be sparingly followed.) So also vĭdēlĭcet is occasionally used, where the reference to some person or thing is quite obvious: cf. Cic. Leg. 2, 10, 24, caste jubet lex adire ad deos, animo videlicet, in quo sunt omnia ("that is to say," or "namely" in mind): cf. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. (II.). 4. introducing an entire sentence illustrative of something that has gone before, nam: cf. Cic. Part. 11, 38, rerum bonarum et malarum tria sunt genera: nam aut in animis, aut in corporibus, aut extra esse possunt: i. e. namely, mental, bodily, or external (Kr.): also Virg. G. 1, 451, hoc etiam ... profuerit meminisse magis: nam saepe videmus ... i. e. namely, we often see, etc.: v. for.