quondam: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>quondam</b>: (CONDAM, Inscr. Rein. p. 543), adv. [[quom]] = cum, [[with]] the demonstr. [[part]]. [[dam]].<br /><b>I</b> At a [[certain]] [[time]], at one [[time]], [[once]], [[heretofore]], [[formerly]]: [[verum]] [[tempestas]], [[memini]], [[quondam]] fuit, cum, etc., Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 29: [[olim]], [[olim]] [[isti]] fuit generi [[quondam]] [[quaestus]], Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 15: cujus [[illa]] [[quondam]] [[socrus]], [[paulo]] [[ante]] [[uxor]] fuisset, Cic. Clu. 66, 188: omnia quae sunt conclusa [[nunc]] artibus, dissipata [[quondam]] fuerunt, id. de Or 1, 42, 187: [[populus]] Romanus, qui [[quondam]] in hostes lenissimus existimabatur, hoc tempore, etc., id. Rosc. Am. 53, 154: ut [[quondam]] Marsaeus, Hor. S. 1, 2, 55; 2, 5, 21, Curt. 3, 1, 12; 3, 4, 3; Ov. F. 2, 547.— Of those [[deceased]], the [[late]], [[former]], [[deceased]] ([[post]]-[[class]].): OPTIMAE MEMORIAE VIRO QVOND. FILIO AELII, etc., Inscr. Grut. 389, 8: Valeriani [[quondam]] centurionis [[testamentum]], Cod. Just. 6, 21, 3: matris tuae [[quondam]] mancipia, id. 7, 33, 8; 8, 57, 2; cf.: Cyro [[quondam]] rege, Curt. 10, 1, 23.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> At [[certain]] times, at times, [[sometimes]]: [[quid]], cum [[saepe]] lapidum, sanguinis [[nonnumquam]], terrae [[interdum]], [[quondam]] [[etiam]] [[lactis]] [[imber]] effluxit? Cic. Div. 1, 43, 98: stomachum, cujus tu similem [[quondam]] habebas, id. Fam. 2, 16, 2: [[quondam]] [[cithara]] tacentem Suscitat Musam, Hor. C. 2, 10, 18: [[quondam]] [[etiam]] victis redit in [[praecordia]] [[virtus]], Verg. A. 2, 367; Ov. M. 9, 170; Lucr. 6, 109: [[senatus]] [[quondam]] legatos decreverit, Suet. Caes. 24; id. Dom. 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of the [[future]], one [[day]], [[some]] [[day]], [[ever]] ([[poet]].), Hor. S. 2, 2, 82: nec Romula [[quondam]] Ullo se [[tantum]] [[tellus]] jactabit [[alumno]], Verg. A. 6, 877: haec [[tibi]] vir [[quondam]], [[nunc]] [[frater]], mittit, Tib. 3, 1, 23.