| notes | example | |||
| et | and | Cloelia Tiberim tranauit et sospites Romam ad propinquos restituit. (Cloelia swam across the Tiber and brought them all back safely to Rome.) | ||
| -que | and | appended to the first word of the coordinated group | Cloelia Tiberim tranauit sospitesque Romam ad propinquos restituit. (Cloelia swam across the Tiber and brought them all back safely to Rome.) | |
| ac | and | atque before words beginning with a vowel | ||
| aut | or | |||
| aut ... aut | either or | |||
| sed | but |
| grammatical role | example | |||
| ut | when as, as well as | temporal comparative | ||
| ubi | when | temporal | Ubi Romam condidit, extrema sollertia fuit. (When he had founded Rome, he was very skilled.) | |
| cum | when | temporal | ||
| postquam | after | temporal | ||
| quod | because | causal | ||
| quia | because, since | causal | Quia uiri Romani sine feminis erant, puellas Sabinas rapuit. (Since the Romans had no wives, he kidnapped young Sabine women.) | |
| quoniam | wherefore | causal | ||
| sicut | as, just as | comparative | Sicut Romanorum sagacissimi prouiderant, ... (Just as the the wisest Romans had predicted, ...) | |
| uelut | as, as well as | comparative | ||
| si | if | conditional | Si Romulus maximus Romanorum fuit, iure posteri eum laudauerunt. (If it is true that Romulus was the greatest of Romans, then posterity sang his praises with reason.) |