602 The principal coordinating conjunctions are the following;
details of their use and meaning are to be learned in reading;
nearly all have other uses too (cp. [665](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-665.html), [666](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-666.html), [667](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-667.html), [668](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-668.html), [669](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-669.html), [670](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-670.html), [671](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-671.html), [672](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-.html), [673](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-673.html)).
- a. Copulative Conjunctions: καί, τε (enclitic) and; οὐδέ,
μηδέ, οὔτε, μήτε and not, nor. καί . . . καί, τε . . . καί both . . . and, οὔτε . . . οὔτε, μήτε . . . μήτε neither . . . nor, are frequent combinations.
- b. Adversative Conjunctions: ἀλλά but, δέ (postpositive)
but, and, ἀτάρ but, however, μέντοι (postpositive) however, yet,
καίτοι and yet.
- c. Disjunctive Conjunction: ἤ or. ἤ . . . ἤ either . . . or,
is a frequent combination.
- d. Inferential Conjunctions: ἄρα then, accordingly, as it
seems; οὖν therefore, then; νυν or νῡν (enclitic and poetic), τοίνυν unemphatic now, then (cp.
[673](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-673.html)).
- e. Causal Conjunction: γάρ for (cp.
[672](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-672.html)).