adverb
itaque
itaque (not comparable)
Classical[ˈɪ.ta.kʷɛ]Ecclesiastical[ˈiː.ta.kʷe]
№ 208 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparabletherefore; and so; in this way
Itaque ad magistratum Mamertinum statim deducitur Gavius, eoque ipso die casu Messanam Verres venit.
Therefore Gavius was immediately lead before the magistrate of Messana, and on that very same day, by chance, Verres arrived at Messana.70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.5.160
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
and so
itaque — in Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 1
ĭtă-que,
I. conj.
I. ( = et ita.) And so, and thus, and accordingly:
ita dolui, itaque ego nunc doleo, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 45: si cetera ita sunt ut vis, itaque ut esse ego illa existimo, Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 28: cum quaestor in Sicilia fuissem, itaque ex ea provincia discessissem, ut, etc., Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1: ita constitui, fortiter esse agendum, itaque feci, id. Clu. 19, 51; id. Deiot. 7, 19: ita nostri acriter in hostes, signo dato, impetum fecerunt, itaque hostes repente celeriterque procurrerunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 52: illud tempus exspectandum decreverunt, itaque fecerunt, Nep. Alc. 4, 2; Caes. B. G. 1, 10.— II. And so, accordingly, therefore, for that reason, consequently (for syn. cf. igitur, idcirco, ideo, ergo):
itaque ipse mea legens, sic adficior interdum, Cic. Lael. 1: itaque rem suscipit et a Sequanis impetrat, Caes. B. G. 1, 9; id. B. C. 2, 7; Tac. Agr. 10.— (b). Occupying the second or third place in the sentence (very rare, and not before the Aug. period):
versis itaque subito voluntatibus, Liv. 34, 34 fin.; so, edicimus itaque omnes, id. 3, 20, 4: quaero itaque, Curt. 7, 10, 7; and: nunc itaque, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10: pro ingenti itaque victoria, Liv. 4, 54, 6; so id. 6, 17, 8; 32, 16, 7.— In the fourth place: omnium sententiis absolutus itaque est, Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 43.— B. Adding an example or argument, accordingly, in like manner, in this manner:
nihil opus (est philosophum) litteras scire. Itaque, ut majores nostri ab aratro Cincinnatum abduxerunt, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12: principes sunt simplices ... itaque aër et ignis et aqua et terra prima sunt, id. Ac. 1, 7, 26: itaque hoc frequenter dici solet, in like manner, id. Fin. 2, 4, 11.— C. Itaque ergo, and hence therefore, and so for that reason:
itaque ergo amantur, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 25; Liv. 1, 25, 2 Drak.; 3, 31, 5; 39, 25, 11 al.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
ita-que
conj, and so, and thus, and accordingly: Si cetera ita sunt ut vis, itaque ut esse ego illa existumo, T.: ita constitui, itaque feci.—In inference, and so, accordingly, therefore, for that reason, consequently: falsa existumans . . . itaque censuit, etc., S.: itaque ipse mea legens, sic adficior interdum: itaque rem suscipit et a Sequanis impetrat, Cs.: versis itaque subito voluntatibus, L.: nunc itaque, H.: itaque ergo amantur, T.— In resuming an interrupted thought, accordingly, thus, and so: itaque tum Scaevola, etc.
Origins
From ita (“so”) + -que (“and”).