Translation
indeed, truly; for my part
Examples
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For my part, I do not believe this.
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I certainly said nothing of the sort.
amavi.
I for one have always loved you.
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I do indeed think so.
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For my part I do not know what he wants.
Equidem is quidem with a prefix, and it is a speaker's particle: it marks off what I think from what everybody else has been saying. "For my part" catches it better than "indeed" does, and the pairing with a first-person verb is overwhelming in Cicero, who happily writes equidem ego, which only looks tautologous.
It stands early in its clause and asks for no particular mood. A third-person equidem is not impossible but is rare enough to be worth a second look at the text. The old grammarians derived it from ego plus quidem, which is folk etymology - the e- is more likely the same intensive prefix as in ecce - but since the usage matches the folk story exactly, remembering it that way does no harm.
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