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|lshtext=<b>jam-dūdum</b>: (or separat. jam dū-dum),<br /><b>I</b> adv., [[long]] [[since]], [[long]] [[before]], a [[long]] [[time]] [[ago]].<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: dixi ego jamdudum [[tibi]], Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 78: jamdudum audivi, id. Merc. 5, 2, 112: jamdudum, si des, porrexi manum, id. Ps. 4, 7, 49: jamdudum est [[intus]], id. As. 3, 3, 151; id. Am. 2, 1, 71: ego jamdudum hic [[adsum]], Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 5: quem jamdudum et [[Cotta]] et [[Sulpicius]] exspectat, Cic. de Or. 2, 7, 26: [[quod]] te jamdudum [[hortor]], id. Cat. 1, 5, 12; id. Clu. 23, 63; Ov. H. 16, 13: jamdudum [[tibi]] non [[imprudens]] adversabar, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 65: jamdudum flebam, I had been a [[long]] [[time]] [[weeping]], Ov. M. 3, 656: jamdudum vincula pugnat exuere, id. ib. 7, 772; cf. id. ib. 8, 867.—Corresp. [[with]] cum: jamdudum [[factum]]'st, [[quom]] abisti [[domo]], Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 3; so id. As. 5, 2, 40.—In tmesi: [[quia]] jam non [[dudum]] [[ante]] lucem ad Veneris aedem venimus, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 105.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic., i. q. jam [[modo]], this [[very]] [[instant]], [[without]] [[delay]], [[forthwith]], [[immediately]], [[directly]] ([[poet]].): jamdudum sumite poenas, Verg. A. 2, 103: ardua jamdudum demittite cornua, Ov. M. 11, 482: jamdudum dominae [[more]] venire jube, id. H. 20, 80; so id. M. 2, 843; 4, 405; 11, 483; 13, 457: candida jamdudum cingantur colla lacertis (i. q. [[statim]]), [[instantly]], id. A. A. 2, 457: in medios [[ire]] furores, jamdudum moriture, paras? Luc. 2, 524: jamdudum incumbere aratris, Dum, sicca tellure, [[licet]], Verg. G. 1, 213.
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|georg=iamdūdum, s. [[iamno]]. I, A u. B.
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