Sul valore condizionale-restrittivo di ne (= dum ne)

• Antonio Piras ^[1]
  1. [1] Università di Cagliari
• Localización: Glotta: zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische sprache..., ISSN 0017-1298, Nº. 98, 2022, págs. 237-252
• Idioma: italiano
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  • This essay examines a series of examples in which the negative particle ne is used with the conditional-restrictive meaning of dum(modo) ne. Employed mainly as adverb in nominal (mostly comparative) phrases, it seems to be a typical feature of technical prose and therefore generally excluded from the language of high literature. Its productivity runs out during the Julio-Claudian age and survives almost exclusively in locutions as ne minus et sim. where the conditional-restrictive sense is no longer or barely perceptible