Translation
therefore
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Examples
Cogito, .
I think, therefore I am.
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So nothing is to be done?
; aeger .
He has not come; therefore he is ill.
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What then?
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Let us go, then.
Ergo draws a conclusion, and unlike igitur it is happy at the head of its clause: cogito, ergo sum. It is the hardest of the Latin words for 'therefore', marking a real inference rather than the loose 'and so' that is itaque's job. There is also an archaic use, kept alive in legal and funerary formulas, where a genitive placed in front of ergo means 'for the sake of': virtutis ergo, 'on account of his courage'.
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 12: ergo, propter, alius and 11 more words.