Translation
for this reason; therefore
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Examples
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He came for this reason, to see you.
Aeger ; .
He was ill; that is why he did not come.
taceo .
It is not because I am afraid that I keep quiet.
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I say this so that you may understand.
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That is why I am glad.
is plus the old ablative ending -, "on account of that". Unlike most connectives it points FORWARDS at least as often as backwards: it very commonly sets up a following or clause, ... , "for this reason, namely in order that", and the reader is meant to wait for the second half.
Set it against its neighbours. and draw a conclusion from what has just been said. marks a consequence in the flow of a narrative. names a cause, and it names it as a cause. It is also a good deal commoner in scholastic and medieval Latin than in Cicero, where propterea and idcirco share the work, and that later usage is part of why it ranks as high as it does in our corpus.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 12: ideo, numquam, navis and 11 more words.