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|lshtext=<b>mŏdŏ</b>: (scanned mŏdō, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 23; Lucr. 2, 11, 35; Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 107; v. Corss. Ausspr. 2, p. 480; Lachm. ad Lucr. 2, p. 140), adv. orig. abl. of [[modus]], q. v..<br /><b>I</b> Qs., by [[measure]], expressing, [[like]] [[tantum]], a [[restriction]] of the [[idea]], [[only]], [[merely]], [[but]].<br /> <b>A</b> In gen.<br /> <b>1</b> Affirmatively: ter sub armis malim vitam cernere, Quam [[semel]] [[modo]] parere, [[even]] [[once]], Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll. (Trag. v. 298 Vahl.): [[semel]] [[modo]], [[only]] [[once]], Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 30: uni [[modo]] gessi morem, id. Most. 1, 3, 43: hoc [[autem]] si ita [[sit]], ut unum [[modo]] sensibus falsum videatur, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 101; cf.: quorum genera plura sunt: hi unum [[modo]] quale [[sit]] suspicantur, id. Or. 9, 28: nec audiendi [[quidam]], qui [[tres]] [[modo]] [[primas]] esse partes volunt, Quint. 3, 3, 4: [[paulum]] [[modo]], Cic. Fam. 1, 5, b, 2; Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 15: perpauxillum [[modo]], Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 74; cf.: [[manus]] erat nulla, quae parvam [[modo]] causam timoris afferret, Caes. B. G. 6, 35, 3: quae pacisci [[modo]] scis, sed [[quod]] [[pacta]] es, non scis solvere, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 88: ad ornandam [[modo]], non augendam orationem assumuntur, Quint. 8, 6, 39; cf. Cic. Inv. 2, 23, 69: solere [[modo]] non [[etiam]] oportere, id. Off. 3, 4, 18: [[doctrina]] ac litterae secundis rebus delectationem [[modo]] habere videbantur, [[nunc]] [[vero]] [[etiam]] salutem, id. Fam. 6, 12, 5: circi [[modo]] [[spectaculum]] fuerat, Liv. 7, 2: [[modo]] facito ut illam serves, [[only]] see [[that]], etc., Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 59: [[modo]] fac, ne [[quid]] aliud cures, etc., Cic. Fam. 16, 11, 1: aetatem velim servire, Libanum ut conveniam [[modo]], if I can [[only]], Plaut. As. 2, 2, 8: [[modo]] ut tacere possis, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 9; cf.: [[concede]], ut [[impune]] emerit, [[modo]] ut bonā ratione emerit, if [[but]]. provided [[that]], Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 5, § 10: [[modo]] ut haec nobis loca [[tenere]] liceat, id. Fam. 14, 14, 1.— For the expressions [[dummodo]], [[solummodo]], and [[tantummodo]], v. dum, [[solum]], and [[tantum]].—<br /> <b>2</b> Negatively: non [[modo]] ... sed ([[verum]]) [[etiam]] (et, or [[simply]] sed), not [[only]] ... [[but]] also: ut non [[modo]] secunda sperare debeas, sed [[etiam]] adversa fortissimo [[animo]] ferre, Cic. Fam. 6, 13, 5: non [[modo]] agendo, [[verum]] [[etiam]] cogitando, id. Cael. 19, 45: illum non [[modo]] favisse, sed et, etc., id. Att. 11, 9, 2: non [[modo]] falsum id esse, sed hoc verissimum, id. Rep. 2, 44, 71.— As to these expressions, and also [[respecting]] the [[omission]] of a [[second]] non in the [[latter]] [[clause]], v. under sed and non.—<br /> <b>B</b> In partic., in restrictive clauses, for ullo or [[aliquo]] [[modo]], in [[any]] [[way]] or [[degree]], at all, [[only]], [[even]]: [[servus]] est [[nemo]], qui [[modo]] tolerabili conditione [[sit]] servitutis, qui, etc., [[who]] is in [[any]] [[tolerable]] [[condition]], Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 16; cf.: [[quamquam]] [[quis]] ignorat, qui [[modo]] [[umquam]] [[mediocriter]] res istas scire curavit, [[quin]], etc., id. Fl. 27, 64; and: [[quis]] est omnium, qui [[modo]] cum Musis habeat aliquod [[commercium]], qui? etc., id. Tusc. 5, 23, 66: [[nemo]] [[aliter]] [[philosophus]] sensit, in quo [[modo]] esset [[auctoritas]], id. Div. 1, 39, 86; cf.: [[servitus]], honorifica [[modo]], Brut. ap. Cic. ad Brut. 1, 17, 4: tum [[quam]] plurimis [[modo]] dignis, se utilem praebent, be [[they]] [[but]] [[worthy]], Cic. Off. 1, 26, 92: bonis viris ... faciendum est, [[modo]] pro facultatibus, id. ib. 2, 17, 58: decerne, [[modo]] recte, id. Rosc. Am. 48, 138: [[itaque]] veniam, quo vocas, [[modo]] adjutore te, id. Att. 16, 13, a, 1: [[atque]] [[utinam]] posset aliquā ratione hoc [[crimen]] [[quamvis]] falsa, [[modo]] humana [[atque]] usitata defendere, if [[only]], id. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 224.—<br /> <b>b</b> Si [[modo]], if [[only]] (freq.): tu si [[modo]] es Romae: vix [[enim]] [[puto]], [[sin]] es, hoc [[vehementer]] animadvertas velim, Cic. Att. 5, 8, 2: [[tute]] scis (si [[modo]] meministi) me [[tibi]] tum dixisse, etc., id. ib. 12, 18, 2: [[fortasse]] vici, si [[modo]] permansero, id. ib. 12, 44, 3.—Poet. [[with]] subj.: si [[modo]] sola queant saxa [[tenere]] fidem, Prop. 1, 18, 4.—<br /> <b>c</b> Poet. and in jurid. Latin, [[modo]] si, for [[dummodo]], if [[only]], provided [[that]]: persequar [[inferius]], [[modo]] si [[licet]] ordine ferri, Ov. Tr. 2, 263: [[modo]] si ejus nomine [[opus]] fiat, Dig. 39, 1, 18; 26, 2, 28; 19, 2, 19, § 10.—<br /> <b>d</b> As a [[conjunction]] [[with]] subj., for [[dummodo]], if [[only]], provided [[that]] (freq. and [[class]].): quos [[valetudo]] [[modo]] bona [[sit]], [[tenuitas]] ipsa delectat, Cic. Brut. 16, 64; id. Or. 9, 28: manent ingenia senibus, [[modo]] permaneat [[studium]] et [[industria]], id. Sen. 7, 22; Quint. 10, 1, 131: [[modo]] [[Juppiter]] adsit, [[Tertia]] lux classem Cretaeis sistet in oris, Verg. A. 3, 116.—So, [[modo]] ne for [[dummodo]] ne, if [[only]] not, provided [[that]] not: quae de Sicinio audīsti, ea mihi probantur: [[modo]] ne [[illa]] [[exceptio]] in aliquem incurrat [[bene]] de nobis [[meritum]], Cic. Att. 5, 4, 3: si [[quis]] est [[paulo]] ad voluptates propensior, [[modo]] ne [[sit]] ex pecudum genere, etc., id. Off. 1, 30, 105; id. Ac. 2, 43, 132.—<br /> <b>2</b> Modo non, [[like]] the Gr. μόνον [[οὐχί]] | |lshtext=<b>mŏdŏ</b>: (scanned mŏdō, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 23; Lucr. 2, 11, 35; Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 107; v. Corss. Ausspr. 2, p. 480; Lachm. ad Lucr. 2, p. 140), adv. orig. abl. of [[modus]], q. v..<br /><b>I</b> Qs., by [[measure]], expressing, [[like]] [[tantum]], a [[restriction]] of the [[idea]], [[only]], [[merely]], [[but]].<br /> <b>A</b> In gen.<br /> <b>1</b> Affirmatively: ter sub armis malim vitam cernere, Quam [[semel]] [[modo]] parere, [[even]] [[once]], Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll. (Trag. v. 298 Vahl.): [[semel]] [[modo]], [[only]] [[once]], Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 30: uni [[modo]] gessi morem, id. Most. 1, 3, 43: hoc [[autem]] si ita [[sit]], ut unum [[modo]] sensibus falsum videatur, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 101; cf.: quorum genera plura sunt: hi unum [[modo]] quale [[sit]] suspicantur, id. Or. 9, 28: nec audiendi [[quidam]], qui [[tres]] [[modo]] [[primas]] esse partes volunt, Quint. 3, 3, 4: [[paulum]] [[modo]], Cic. Fam. 1, 5, b, 2; Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 15: perpauxillum [[modo]], Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 74; cf.: [[manus]] erat nulla, quae parvam [[modo]] causam timoris afferret, Caes. B. G. 6, 35, 3: quae pacisci [[modo]] scis, sed [[quod]] [[pacta]] es, non scis solvere, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 88: ad ornandam [[modo]], non augendam orationem assumuntur, Quint. 8, 6, 39; cf. Cic. Inv. 2, 23, 69: solere [[modo]] non [[etiam]] oportere, id. Off. 3, 4, 18: [[doctrina]] ac litterae secundis rebus delectationem [[modo]] habere videbantur, [[nunc]] [[vero]] [[etiam]] salutem, id. Fam. 6, 12, 5: circi [[modo]] [[spectaculum]] fuerat, Liv. 7, 2: [[modo]] facito ut illam serves, [[only]] see [[that]], etc., Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 59: [[modo]] fac, ne [[quid]] aliud cures, etc., Cic. Fam. 16, 11, 1: aetatem velim servire, Libanum ut conveniam [[modo]], if I can [[only]], Plaut. As. 2, 2, 8: [[modo]] ut tacere possis, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 9; cf.: [[concede]], ut [[impune]] emerit, [[modo]] ut bonā ratione emerit, if [[but]]. provided [[that]], Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 5, § 10: [[modo]] ut haec nobis loca [[tenere]] liceat, id. Fam. 14, 14, 1.— For the expressions [[dummodo]], [[solummodo]], and [[tantummodo]], v. dum, [[solum]], and [[tantum]].—<br /> <b>2</b> Negatively: non [[modo]] ... sed ([[verum]]) [[etiam]] (et, or [[simply]] sed), not [[only]] ... [[but]] also: ut non [[modo]] secunda sperare debeas, sed [[etiam]] adversa fortissimo [[animo]] ferre, Cic. Fam. 6, 13, 5: non [[modo]] agendo, [[verum]] [[etiam]] cogitando, id. Cael. 19, 45: illum non [[modo]] favisse, sed et, etc., id. Att. 11, 9, 2: non [[modo]] falsum id esse, sed hoc verissimum, id. Rep. 2, 44, 71.— As to these expressions, and also [[respecting]] the [[omission]] of a [[second]] non in the [[latter]] [[clause]], v. under sed and non.—<br /> <b>B</b> In partic., in restrictive clauses, for ullo or [[aliquo]] [[modo]], in [[any]] [[way]] or [[degree]], at all, [[only]], [[even]]: [[servus]] est [[nemo]], qui [[modo]] tolerabili conditione [[sit]] servitutis, qui, etc., [[who]] is in [[any]] [[tolerable]] [[condition]], Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 16; cf.: [[quamquam]] [[quis]] ignorat, qui [[modo]] [[umquam]] [[mediocriter]] res istas scire curavit, [[quin]], etc., id. Fl. 27, 64; and: [[quis]] est omnium, qui [[modo]] cum Musis habeat aliquod [[commercium]], qui? etc., id. Tusc. 5, 23, 66: [[nemo]] [[aliter]] [[philosophus]] sensit, in quo [[modo]] esset [[auctoritas]], id. Div. 1, 39, 86; cf.: [[servitus]], honorifica [[modo]], Brut. ap. Cic. ad Brut. 1, 17, 4: tum [[quam]] plurimis [[modo]] dignis, se utilem praebent, be [[they]] [[but]] [[worthy]], Cic. Off. 1, 26, 92: bonis viris ... faciendum est, [[modo]] pro facultatibus, id. ib. 2, 17, 58: decerne, [[modo]] recte, id. Rosc. Am. 48, 138: [[itaque]] veniam, quo vocas, [[modo]] adjutore te, id. Att. 16, 13, a, 1: [[atque]] [[utinam]] posset aliquā ratione hoc [[crimen]] [[quamvis]] falsa, [[modo]] humana [[atque]] usitata defendere, if [[only]], id. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 224.—<br /> <b>b</b> Si [[modo]], if [[only]] (freq.): tu si [[modo]] es Romae: vix [[enim]] [[puto]], [[sin]] es, hoc [[vehementer]] animadvertas velim, Cic. Att. 5, 8, 2: [[tute]] scis (si [[modo]] meministi) me [[tibi]] tum dixisse, etc., id. ib. 12, 18, 2: [[fortasse]] vici, si [[modo]] permansero, id. ib. 12, 44, 3.—Poet. [[with]] subj.: si [[modo]] sola queant saxa [[tenere]] fidem, Prop. 1, 18, 4.—<br /> <b>c</b> Poet. and in jurid. Latin, [[modo]] si, for [[dummodo]], if [[only]], provided [[that]]: persequar [[inferius]], [[modo]] si [[licet]] ordine ferri, Ov. Tr. 2, 263: [[modo]] si ejus nomine [[opus]] fiat, Dig. 39, 1, 18; 26, 2, 28; 19, 2, 19, § 10.—<br /> <b>d</b> As a [[conjunction]] [[with]] subj., for [[dummodo]], if [[only]], provided [[that]] (freq. and [[class]].): quos [[valetudo]] [[modo]] bona [[sit]], [[tenuitas]] ipsa delectat, Cic. Brut. 16, 64; id. Or. 9, 28: manent ingenia senibus, [[modo]] permaneat [[studium]] et [[industria]], id. Sen. 7, 22; Quint. 10, 1, 131: [[modo]] [[Juppiter]] adsit, [[Tertia]] lux classem Cretaeis sistet in oris, Verg. A. 3, 116.—So, [[modo]] ne for [[dummodo]] ne, if [[only]] not, provided [[that]] not: quae de Sicinio audīsti, ea mihi probantur: [[modo]] ne [[illa]] [[exceptio]] in aliquem incurrat [[bene]] de nobis [[meritum]], Cic. Att. 5, 4, 3: si [[quis]] est [[paulo]] ad voluptates propensior, [[modo]] ne [[sit]] ex pecudum genere, etc., id. Off. 1, 30, 105; id. Ac. 2, 43, 132.—<br /> <b>2</b> Modo non, [[like]] the Gr. μόνον [[οὐχί]], all [[but]], [[almost]], [[nearly]], = [[propemodum]] ([[ante]]- and [[post]]-[[class]].): [[modo]] non montes auri pollicens, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 17 [[Don]].: favet Fabi gloriae, quae [[modo]] non suā contumeliā splendeat, Liv. 10, 24, 11: [[pictor]] equum venientem, [[modo]] non vivum, comprehenderat, Val. Max. 8, 11, ext. 7: [[modo]] non reclamante [[publico]] vigore, Amm. 14, 7, 1; 16, 12, 16; 21, 14, 1; 22, 6, 2 al.—<br /> <b>3</b> In colloq. lang. [[with]] imperatives, [[just]], [[now]], [[only]]: sequere hac [[modo]], Plaut. Men. 4, 1, 4: sedete hic [[modo]], id. Rud. 3, 3, 29: propera [[modo]], id. Men. 1, 4, 32: vide [[modo]], Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46: ignem scrutare [[modo]], [[inquam]], Hor. S. 2, 3, 276.—Indignantly: [[quin]] tu i [[modo]], [[begone]] [[now]], Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 182; so, i [[modo]], id. Stich. 3, 2, 23: tace [[modo]], be [[still]] [[now]], id. As. 5, 2, 19.—With tu or vos ([[poet]]. and [[post]]-[[class]].): tu [[modo]], dum [[licet]], hunc fructum ne desere vitae, Prop. 2, 15, 49; Verg. G. 3, 73: tu [[modo]] posce deos veniam, id. A. 4, 50: vos [[modo]], inquit, parcite, Phaedr. 2, 8, 8; Curt. 9, 6, 24; 9, 2, 25.<br /><b>II</b> With specifications of [[time]], [[like]] Gr. [[ἄρτι]] (reaching to the [[full]] [[measure]] of the [[time]], [[fully]]).<br /> <b>A</b> In gen.<br /> <b>1</b> Of the pressent [[time]], [[just]] [[now]], [[just]] ([[ante]]-[[class]]. and [[poet]].): [[quid]]? ego [[modo]] huic [[frater]] [[factus]], dum [[intro]] eo [[atque]] [[exeo]]? [[just]] [[now]]? Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 43: [[modo]] dolores, meatu, occipiunt, Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 2 (evidenter hic [[modo]] temporis praesentis [[adverbium]] est, [[Don]].): advenis [[modo]], id. Hec. 3, 5, 8 [[Don]].: devoravi [[nomen]] [[imprudens]] [[modo]], Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 63: jam [[modo]] [[nunc]] [[possum]] [[contentus]] vivere parvo, Tib. 1, 1, 25; cf.: peccare fuisset Ante [[satis]], [[penitus]] [[modo]] [[nunc]] [[genus]] omne perosos Femineum, Verg. A. 9, 141.—<br /> <b>2</b> Of [[time]] [[just]] passed, [[just]] [[now]], [[but]] this [[moment]], a [[little]] [[while]] [[ago]], [[lately]] ([[class]].): [[nuper]] homines nobiles hujusmodi, judices, et [[quid]] [[dico]] [[nuper]]? [[immo]] [[vero]] [[modo]] ac [[plane]] [[paulo]] [[ante]] vidimus, qui, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 7: Al. Ita uti [[dudum]] dixeras? Am. Dudum? [[quam]] [[dudum]] [[istuc]] [[factum]] est? Al. Temptas: jam [[dudum]], [[pridem]], [[modo]], Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 60: Ph. Quando? Do. Hodie. Ph. Quamdudum? Do. Modo, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 30: [[sum]] [[illi]] villae amicior [[modo]] [[factus]], Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 4: quaeras putemne talem esse deorum naturam, [[qualis]] [[modo]] a te [[sit]] exposita, id. N. D. 1, 21, 57: declaravit id [[modo]] [[temeritas]] C. Caesaris, id. Off. 1, 8, 26: [[modo]] hoc [[malum]] in rem publicam invasit, id. ib. 2, 21, 75: si [[hodie]] bella sint, quale Gallicum [[modo]] (i. e. [[twenty]]-[[two]] years earlier), Liv. 6, 40, 17; cf. id. 22, 14, 13; Cic. Div. 1, 44, 99.—Opp. to [[nunc]]: qui [[nunc]] [[primum]] te advenisse dicas, [[modo]] qui [[hinc]] abieris, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 63: in quā urbe [[modo]] gratiā, auctoritate, gloriā floruimus, in eā [[nunc]] iis [[quidem]] omnibus caremus, Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 2; id. Mur. 40, 86; 41, 88; Prop. 1, 18, 7.—With [[tunc]], Tac. A. 2, 75.—<br /> <b>3</b> Of [[time]] [[just]] to [[come]], [[immediately]], [[directly]], in a [[moment]] ([[rare]], and perh. not in Cic.): domum [[modo]] ibo, Ter. And. 3, 4, 15; Liv. 26, 15: [[Artabanus]] tardari metu, [[modo]] cupidine vindictae inardescere, Tac. A. 6, 32; 4, 50.—<br /> <b>B</b> In partic.<br /> <b>1</b> Modo ... [[modo]], [[now]] ... [[now]], at one [[moment]] ... at [[another]], [[sometimes]] ... [[sometimes]] ([[class]].): [[modo]] ait, [[modo]] negat, [[sometimes]] he says Yes, and [[sometimes]] No, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 46: [[Cotta]] [[meus]] [[modo]] hoc, [[modo]] illud, Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47; id. Div. 2, 44, 93: [[modo]] his, [[modo]] illis ex partibus, id. N. D. 2, 19, 49: o Academiam volaticam et sui similem, [[modo]] huc, [[modo]] [[illuc]]! id. Att. 13, 25, 3: [[citus]] [[modo]], [[modo]] [[tardus]] [[incessus]], Sall. C. 15, 5: laetos [[modo]], [[modo]] pavidos animadverteres, id. J. 60, 4: nebulonem [[modo]], [[modo]] nugatorem appellat, Liv. 38, 56.—Instead of [[modo]] ... [[modo]], we [[sometimes]] [[find]]: [[nunc]] ... [[modo]]: [[nunc]] quereretur eundem accusatorem ac judicem esse, [[modo]] vitam sibi eripi, etc., Liv. 8, 32, 9.—Again, [[instead]] of the [[second]] [[modo]] (esp. in poets and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]] writers), we [[find]]: [[nunc]] [[aliquando]], [[interdum]], [[nonnumquam]], [[saepe]], [[rursus]].—So, [[modo]] ... [[nunc]], Ov. M. 13, 922; id. F. 4, 643; id. Tr. 1, 2, 27: [[modo]] ut reciperet [[imperium]], [[nunc]] ut legatione fungeretur, Tac. H. 2, 51: [[modo]] ... [[aliquando]], id. A. 1, 81; 6, 35; 11, 34; 16, 10; id. H. 2, 74: [[modo]] ... [[interdum]], Sall. J. 42, 1; 55, 9; 62, 9 Kritz.; 74, 1; Hor. S. 1, 9, 9 et saep.: [[modo]] ... [[nonnumquam]], Suet. Tib. 66; id. Claud. 15; id. Calig. 52: [[modo]] ... [[saepe]], Hor. S. 1, 10, 11: [[modo]] ... [[modo]] ... [[saepe]], Sall. J. 45, 2; Tac. H. 4, 84: [[modo]] ... [[rursus]], Prop. 1, 3, 41.—<br /> <b>2</b> Modo ... tum ([[deinde]], [[postea]], etc.), at [[first]] ... [[then]], at one [[time]] ... at [[another]]: sol [[modo]] accedens, tum [[autem]] recedens, Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 102: ([[Xenophon]]) facit Socratem disputantem ... et [[modo]] unum, tum [[autem]] [[plures]] deos, id. ib. 1, 12, 31: et [[modo]] [[mundum]], tum mentem divinam esse putat, id. ib. 1, 13, 34; cf.: [[modo]] ([[Theophrastus]]) menti divinum tribuit principatum, [[modo]] [[caelo]], tum [[autem]] signis sideribusque caelestibus, id. ib. 1, 13, 35: et [[forte]] in eo [[loco]] [[grandis]] [[ilex]] coaluerat [[inter]] saxa [[paulum]] [[modo]] prona, [[deinde]] flexa, etc., Sall. J. 93, 4: [[modo]] ... [[paulo]] [[post]], Val. Max. 7, 4, 5: [[modo]] ... [[modo]] ... postremum, Tac. H. 4, 46: [[quid]] agerent, [[modo]] timentes, [[vicissim]] contemnentes religiones, Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43. | ||
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mŏdŏ: (scanned mŏdō, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 23; Lucr. 2, 11, 35; Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 107; v. Corss. Ausspr. 2, p. 480; Lachm. ad Lucr. 2, p. 140), adv. orig. abl. of modus, q. v..
I Qs., by measure, expressing, like tantum, a restriction of the idea, only, merely, but.
A In gen.
1 Affirmatively: ter sub armis malim vitam cernere, Quam semel modo parere, even once, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll. (Trag. v. 298 Vahl.): semel modo, only once, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 30: uni modo gessi morem, id. Most. 1, 3, 43: hoc autem si ita sit, ut unum modo sensibus falsum videatur, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 101; cf.: quorum genera plura sunt: hi unum modo quale sit suspicantur, id. Or. 9, 28: nec audiendi quidam, qui tres modo primas esse partes volunt, Quint. 3, 3, 4: paulum modo, Cic. Fam. 1, 5, b, 2; Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 15: perpauxillum modo, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 74; cf.: manus erat nulla, quae parvam modo causam timoris afferret, Caes. B. G. 6, 35, 3: quae pacisci modo scis, sed quod pacta es, non scis solvere, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 88: ad ornandam modo, non augendam orationem assumuntur, Quint. 8, 6, 39; cf. Cic. Inv. 2, 23, 69: solere modo non etiam oportere, id. Off. 3, 4, 18: doctrina ac litterae secundis rebus delectationem modo habere videbantur, nunc vero etiam salutem, id. Fam. 6, 12, 5: circi modo spectaculum fuerat, Liv. 7, 2: modo facito ut illam serves, only see that, etc., Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 59: modo fac, ne quid aliud cures, etc., Cic. Fam. 16, 11, 1: aetatem velim servire, Libanum ut conveniam modo, if I can only, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 8: modo ut tacere possis, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 9; cf.: concede, ut impune emerit, modo ut bonā ratione emerit, if but. provided that, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 5, § 10: modo ut haec nobis loca tenere liceat, id. Fam. 14, 14, 1.— For the expressions dummodo, solummodo, and tantummodo, v. dum, solum, and tantum.—
2 Negatively: non modo ... sed (verum) etiam (et, or simply sed), not only ... but also: ut non modo secunda sperare debeas, sed etiam adversa fortissimo animo ferre, Cic. Fam. 6, 13, 5: non modo agendo, verum etiam cogitando, id. Cael. 19, 45: illum non modo favisse, sed et, etc., id. Att. 11, 9, 2: non modo falsum id esse, sed hoc verissimum, id. Rep. 2, 44, 71.— As to these expressions, and also respecting the omission of a second non in the latter clause, v. under sed and non.—
B In partic., in restrictive clauses, for ullo or aliquo modo, in any way or degree, at all, only, even: servus est nemo, qui modo tolerabili conditione sit servitutis, qui, etc., who is in any tolerable condition, Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 16; cf.: quamquam quis ignorat, qui modo umquam mediocriter res istas scire curavit, quin, etc., id. Fl. 27, 64; and: quis est omnium, qui modo cum Musis habeat aliquod commercium, qui? etc., id. Tusc. 5, 23, 66: nemo aliter philosophus sensit, in quo modo esset auctoritas, id. Div. 1, 39, 86; cf.: servitus, honorifica modo, Brut. ap. Cic. ad Brut. 1, 17, 4: tum quam plurimis modo dignis, se utilem praebent, be they but worthy, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 92: bonis viris ... faciendum est, modo pro facultatibus, id. ib. 2, 17, 58: decerne, modo recte, id. Rosc. Am. 48, 138: itaque veniam, quo vocas, modo adjutore te, id. Att. 16, 13, a, 1: atque utinam posset aliquā ratione hoc crimen quamvis falsa, modo humana atque usitata defendere, if only, id. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 224.—
b Si modo, if only (freq.): tu si modo es Romae: vix enim puto, sin es, hoc vehementer animadvertas velim, Cic. Att. 5, 8, 2: tute scis (si modo meministi) me tibi tum dixisse, etc., id. ib. 12, 18, 2: fortasse vici, si modo permansero, id. ib. 12, 44, 3.—Poet. with subj.: si modo sola queant saxa tenere fidem, Prop. 1, 18, 4.—
c Poet. and in jurid. Latin, modo si, for dummodo, if only, provided that: persequar inferius, modo si licet ordine ferri, Ov. Tr. 2, 263: modo si ejus nomine opus fiat, Dig. 39, 1, 18; 26, 2, 28; 19, 2, 19, § 10.—
d As a conjunction with subj., for dummodo, if only, provided that (freq. and class.): quos valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat, Cic. Brut. 16, 64; id. Or. 9, 28: manent ingenia senibus, modo permaneat studium et industria, id. Sen. 7, 22; Quint. 10, 1, 131: modo Juppiter adsit, Tertia lux classem Cretaeis sistet in oris, Verg. A. 3, 116.—So, modo ne for dummodo ne, if only not, provided that not: quae de Sicinio audīsti, ea mihi probantur: modo ne illa exceptio in aliquem incurrat bene de nobis meritum, Cic. Att. 5, 4, 3: si quis est paulo ad voluptates propensior, modo ne sit ex pecudum genere, etc., id. Off. 1, 30, 105; id. Ac. 2, 43, 132.—
2 Modo non, like the Gr. μόνον οὐχί, all but, almost, nearly, = propemodum (ante- and post-class.): modo non montes auri pollicens, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 17 Don.: favet Fabi gloriae, quae modo non suā contumeliā splendeat, Liv. 10, 24, 11: pictor equum venientem, modo non vivum, comprehenderat, Val. Max. 8, 11, ext. 7: modo non reclamante publico vigore, Amm. 14, 7, 1; 16, 12, 16; 21, 14, 1; 22, 6, 2 al.—
3 In colloq. lang. with imperatives, just, now, only: sequere hac modo, Plaut. Men. 4, 1, 4: sedete hic modo, id. Rud. 3, 3, 29: propera modo, id. Men. 1, 4, 32: vide modo, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46: ignem scrutare modo, inquam, Hor. S. 2, 3, 276.—Indignantly: quin tu i modo, begone now, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 182; so, i modo, id. Stich. 3, 2, 23: tace modo, be still now, id. As. 5, 2, 19.—With tu or vos (poet. and post-class.): tu modo, dum licet, hunc fructum ne desere vitae, Prop. 2, 15, 49; Verg. G. 3, 73: tu modo posce deos veniam, id. A. 4, 50: vos modo, inquit, parcite, Phaedr. 2, 8, 8; Curt. 9, 6, 24; 9, 2, 25.
II With specifications of time, like Gr. ἄρτι (reaching to the full measure of the time, fully).
A In gen.
1 Of the pressent time, just now, just (ante-class. and poet.): quid? ego modo huic frater factus, dum intro eo atque exeo? just now? Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 43: modo dolores, meatu, occipiunt, Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 2 (evidenter hic modo temporis praesentis adverbium est, Don.): advenis modo, id. Hec. 3, 5, 8 Don.: devoravi nomen imprudens modo, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 63: jam modo nunc possum contentus vivere parvo, Tib. 1, 1, 25; cf.: peccare fuisset Ante satis, penitus modo nunc genus omne perosos Femineum, Verg. A. 9, 141.—
2 Of time just passed, just now, but this moment, a little while ago, lately (class.): nuper homines nobiles hujusmodi, judices, et quid dico nuper? immo vero modo ac plane paulo ante vidimus, qui, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 7: Al. Ita uti dudum dixeras? Am. Dudum? quam dudum istuc factum est? Al. Temptas: jam dudum, pridem, modo, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 60: Ph. Quando? Do. Hodie. Ph. Quamdudum? Do. Modo, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 30: sum illi villae amicior modo factus, Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 4: quaeras putemne talem esse deorum naturam, qualis modo a te sit exposita, id. N. D. 1, 21, 57: declaravit id modo temeritas C. Caesaris, id. Off. 1, 8, 26: modo hoc malum in rem publicam invasit, id. ib. 2, 21, 75: si hodie bella sint, quale Gallicum modo (i. e. twenty-two years earlier), Liv. 6, 40, 17; cf. id. 22, 14, 13; Cic. Div. 1, 44, 99.—Opp. to nunc: qui nunc primum te advenisse dicas, modo qui hinc abieris, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 63: in quā urbe modo gratiā, auctoritate, gloriā floruimus, in eā nunc iis quidem omnibus caremus, Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 2; id. Mur. 40, 86; 41, 88; Prop. 1, 18, 7.—With tunc, Tac. A. 2, 75.—
3 Of time just to come, immediately, directly, in a moment (rare, and perh. not in Cic.): domum modo ibo, Ter. And. 3, 4, 15; Liv. 26, 15: Artabanus tardari metu, modo cupidine vindictae inardescere, Tac. A. 6, 32; 4, 50.—
B In partic.
1 Modo ... modo, now ... now, at one moment ... at another, sometimes ... sometimes (class.): modo ait, modo negat, sometimes he says Yes, and sometimes No, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 46: Cotta meus modo hoc, modo illud, Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47; id. Div. 2, 44, 93: modo his, modo illis ex partibus, id. N. D. 2, 19, 49: o Academiam volaticam et sui similem, modo huc, modo illuc! id. Att. 13, 25, 3: citus modo, modo tardus incessus, Sall. C. 15, 5: laetos modo, modo pavidos animadverteres, id. J. 60, 4: nebulonem modo, modo nugatorem appellat, Liv. 38, 56.—Instead of modo ... modo, we sometimes find: nunc ... modo: nunc quereretur eundem accusatorem ac judicem esse, modo vitam sibi eripi, etc., Liv. 8, 32, 9.—Again, instead of the second modo (esp. in poets and in post-Aug. prose writers), we find: nunc aliquando, interdum, nonnumquam, saepe, rursus.—So, modo ... nunc, Ov. M. 13, 922; id. F. 4, 643; id. Tr. 1, 2, 27: modo ut reciperet imperium, nunc ut legatione fungeretur, Tac. H. 2, 51: modo ... aliquando, id. A. 1, 81; 6, 35; 11, 34; 16, 10; id. H. 2, 74: modo ... interdum, Sall. J. 42, 1; 55, 9; 62, 9 Kritz.; 74, 1; Hor. S. 1, 9, 9 et saep.: modo ... nonnumquam, Suet. Tib. 66; id. Claud. 15; id. Calig. 52: modo ... saepe, Hor. S. 1, 10, 11: modo ... modo ... saepe, Sall. J. 45, 2; Tac. H. 4, 84: modo ... rursus, Prop. 1, 3, 41.—
2 Modo ... tum (deinde, postea, etc.), at first ... then, at one time ... at another: sol modo accedens, tum autem recedens, Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 102: (Xenophon) facit Socratem disputantem ... et modo unum, tum autem plures deos, id. ib. 1, 12, 31: et modo mundum, tum mentem divinam esse putat, id. ib. 1, 13, 34; cf.: modo (Theophrastus) menti divinum tribuit principatum, modo caelo, tum autem signis sideribusque caelestibus, id. ib. 1, 13, 35: et forte in eo loco grandis ilex coaluerat inter saxa paulum modo prona, deinde flexa, etc., Sall. J. 93, 4: modo ... paulo post, Val. Max. 7, 4, 5: modo ... modo ... postremum, Tac. H. 4, 46: quid agerent, modo timentes, vicissim contemnentes religiones, Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43.