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This article offers a study of the latin particles enim and nam from a pragmatic- intentional perspective. The results are analysed from two different points of view. In the first one, the four most important topics taken into account are: 1.- enim and nam in interrogative sentences; 2.- enim in expressive contexts; 3.- enim and nam in imperative sentences; 4.- enim and nam + haud. The main conclusion of our study is that both particles are Intentional Discourse Markers; enim shows that the sentence is thought from a subjective attitude, and nam from an objective one. The aim of fourth section is to contrast the statistics of enim and nam in several Latin authors. Figures point out that every writer maintains an objective or subjective attitude towards his discourse according to the nature of the literary gender. Finally, in the last section, we give attention to the relation (‘global ratio’) between the ocurrences of enim and nam and the total number of verses (or lines) in order to stablish the degree of personal implication which an author wants to reveal about his discursive responsibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]