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|lshtext=<b>tam-dĭū</b>: (also [[separately]], tam diu; and less correctly, tandiu), adv.,<br /><b>I</b> so [[long]], for so [[long]] a [[time]].<br /><b>I</b> With comp.-[[clause]] understood (cf. tam, II. B.): [[quid]] illaec [[nunc]] tam diu [[intus]] Remoratur? as [[long]] as she does, Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 10: [[haud]] quidquam est [[quod]] cupiam tam diu, id. Curc. 1, 3, 15: [[quid]] tam [[intus]] fuisse te dicam diu? id. Mil. 4, 5, 2: [[quid]] [[illic]] tam diu restitisti? id. Most. 3, 2, 100: [[credo]] ego miseram fuisse Penelopam quae tam diu viro suo caruit, id. Stich. 1, 1, 2: sed [[quid]] haec hic [[autem]] tam diu [[ante]] [[aedes]] stetit? id. Truc. 2, 3, 14: in [[ludo]] qui fuisti tam diu, id. As. 1, 3, 73: ubi te oblectasti tam diu? Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 9: quae tam permansit diu, id. ib. 3, 1, 25: abs te tam diu [[nihil]] litterarum? Cic. Att. 1, 2, 1: te abfuisse tam diu a nobis dolui, id. Fam. 2, 1, 2: [[ducenti]] [[ferme]] et [[decem]] anni colliguntur: tam diu Germania vincitur. for so [[long]] a [[time]] as this has [[Germany]] been defeated, Tac. G. 37. —<br /><b>II</b> As [[antecedent]] of a [[temporal]] [[clause]], introduced by [[quam]] diu (diu [[repeated]], cf. tam, I. B. 2.), [[quam]], dum, [[quoad]]: tam diu ... [[quam]] diu, etc., as [[long]] as.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> By [[quam]] diu ([[both]] clauses [[take]] the [[same]] tense; and if in [[past]] [[time]], the perf. indic.): ego tam diu [[requiesco]] [[quam]] diu aut ad te [[scribo]] aut tuas litteras [[lego]], Cic. Att. 9, 4, 1: [[ratio]] tam diu [[potens]] est, [[quam]] diu deducta est ab affectibus, Sen. Ira, 1, 7, 3: ([[Verres]]) tam diu in imperio suo classem vidit [[quam]] diu [[convivium]] ejus praetervecta est, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 86: ([[Bibulus]]) se [[oppido]] munitissimo tam diu tenuit [[quam]] diu in provinciā [[Parthi]] fuerunt, id. Fam. 12, 19, 2: quorum (oratorum) [[quam]] diu mansit [[imitatio]], tam diu [[genus]] illud dicendi vixit, id. Or. 2, 23, 94: [[cur]] ea (signa) [[quam]] diu [[alium]] praetorem de te in judicium iturum putasti, tam diu domi fuerunt? id. Verr. 2, 1, 19, § 51: [[ignominia]] [[illa]] tam diu in [[illo]] homine fuit, [[quam]] diu [[iste]] in provinciā mansit, id. ib. 2, 2, 27, § 67: manebit [[ergo]] [[amicitia]] tam diu, [[quam]] diu sequetur [[utilitas]], id. Fin. 2, 24, 78: qui urcus, cum recipit salem ... tam diu jam torretur, [[quam]] diu strepitum [[edit]], Col. 12, 21, 2.—With subj.: tam diu discendum est, [[quam]] diu nescias, Sen. Ep. 76, 3; cf. Cic. Tusc. 3, 31, 75; id. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 25.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> By [[quam]]: [[Hortensius]] vixit tam diu [[quam]] licuit in civitate [[bene]] beateque vivere, Cic. Brut. 1, 4: M. [[Piso]] tenuit locum tam diu [[quam]] ferre potuit laborem, id. ib. 67, 236.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> By dum: [[Claudius]] [[usus]] est hoc Cupidine tam diu dum [[forum]] dis immortalibus habuit ornatum, [[only]] so [[long]], Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 6: [[Gracchus]] tam diu laudabitur dum [[memoria]] rerum Romanarum manebit, id. Off. 2, 12, 43: eas litteras cum [[lego]], [[minus]] mihi [[turpis]] videor, sed tam diu dum [[lego]], id. Att. 9, 6, 5: (Bajae nostrae) tam diu dum tu ades sunt oblitae sui, id. Fam. 9, 12, 1.—With subj.: ne tam diu [[quidem]] [[dominus]] erit, dum ex eis (servis) de patris morte quaeratur? Cic. Rosc. Am. 28, 78; id. Sen. 12, 41; id. Tusc. 5, 33, 96.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> By [[quoad]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): tam diu [[autem]] velle debebis [[quoad]] te, [[quantum]] proficias, non poenitebit, Cic. Off. 1, 1, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> By [[donec]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): tam diu incenditur, [[donec]], etc., Col. 12, 18, 6: tam diu deferuntur [[atque]] incerta sunt, [[donec]] in [[solido]] resederunt, Sen. Q. N. 6, 9, 3; 3, 15, 5. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>F</b> By ut ([[very]] [[rare]]): ([[Antiochus]]) didicit [[apud]] Philonem tam diu, ut constaret [[diutius]] didicisse neminem, Cic. Ac. 2, 22, 69: quae [[inductio]] [[ante]] tam diu subigenda est, ut [[rutrum]] [[mundum]] levemus, Pall. 1, 15.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>tamdĭū</b>⁹ ou <b>[[tam]] dĭū</b>, aussi longtemps, si longtemps : abs te [[tamdiu]] [[nihil]] litterarum Cic. Att. 1, 2, 1, si longtemps point de lettre de toi &#124;&#124; [en corrélation avec [[quamdiu]], [[quoad]], [[dum]], [[donec]] ] aussi longtemps que, tant que, v. ces mots &#124;&#124; [avec [[quam]] ] : vixit [[tamdiu]] [[quam]] [[licuit]]... vivere Cic. Br. 4, il a vécu aussi longtemps qu’on pouvait vivre..., cf. Cic. Br. 236 &#124;&#124; [avec ut consécutif] tellement longtemps, que : Cic. Ac. 2, 69.
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{{Georges
|georg=[[tam]]-diū, Adv., I) so [[lange]], [[nur]] so [[lange]], [[von]] [[einer]] bestimmten [[Zeit]], [[mit]] folg. [[quamdiu]], [[quoad]], [[dum]], [[quam]], [[donec]], zB. [[tamdiu]] [[requiesco]], [[quamdiu]] [[scribo]], Cic.: [[tamdiu]] [[vobis]] cordi sumus, [[quamdiu]] usui, Sen. rhet.: [[tamdiu]] [[velle]] debebis, [[quoad]] te [[non]] paenitebit, Cic.: [[tamdiu]] laudabitur, [[dum]] [[memoria]] manebit, Cic.: vixit [[tamdiu]], [[quam]] [[licuit]], Cic.: [[tamdiu]], [[donec]] etc., Colum.: [[tamdiu]] ut (= [[donec]], [[dum]]), zB. [[tamdiu]] subigenda est, ut... levemus, d.i. [[bis]], Pallad. – II) so [[lange]], d.i. a) so [[sehr]] [[lange]], [[sehr]] [[lange]], Cic. u. Nep. – b) [[seit]] so langer [[Zeit]], Plaut. u. Tac.
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{{LaEn
|lnetxt=tamdiu ADV :: so long, for so long a time; so very long; all this time
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