ALWAYS Copy link • ALWAYSsemper (opposed to nunquam): usque (always, within a drfinite limit: semper represents time as a space; usque as a continuing line: semper = omni tempore: usque = nullo tempore intermisso; continenter): perpetuo (of uninterrupted continuance to the end of a space of time). With superlatives always is translated by quisque: “the best things are always the rarest,” optimum quidque rarissimum est. Sometimes always is used hyperbolically for “nearly always,” “mostly :” it may then be translated by plerumque, or by a periphrasis with solere. He always arrives ten late, plerumque sero venit. I always take a walk at this time, hoc tempore ambulare soleo. But, ☞ this may sometimes be expressed by the simple present or imperfect; e.g. post cibum meridianum - paullisper conquiescebat: to be always at a place, frequentem esse aliquo loco: assiduum esse aliquo loco or circa locum.