et-enim conj., adding an independent and emphatic clause, as a reason, explanation, or corroboration, for, for truly, and indeed, because, since: etenim iste non audebat, etc.: etenim quid est, quod amplius exspectes?

—In tmesi: Et meministis enim, V.

—Introducing a parenthesis: legationis princeps est Heius (etenim est primus civitatis), ne forte, etc.

—After a word (poet.): Divinare etenim mihi donat Apollo, H.: Tutus bos etenim rura perambulat, H.