NOW Copy link • NOWadverb, nunc (at the present time; opposed to tunc): jam (opposed to tum; especially as a particle of transition): in praesentia (Cic., Caes., Nep., Liv.; for the present): in hoc tempore, in praesenti (Cic., Fam., 2, 10; under present circumstances, at this critical time, etc.): in praesens (☞ post-Augustan; also, ad praesens, now and the time immediately following: ☞ impraesentiarum, depraesentiarum are unclassical). Even now = (α) precisely at this moment, nunc cum maxime or cum maxime only; (β) just before the present moment, modo. Now directly [Vid: IMMEDIATELY]: Now - now (= at one time - at another), modo - modo (or nunc or interdum, or tum); nunc - nunc (or modo. ☞ OBS., nunc - nunc not in prose before Livy); alias - alias (or interdum or plerumque or aliquando): hodie (today): nunc ipsum: hoc ipso tempore (at this very time, emphatic): now at length, nunc demum: now and then, interdum (mostly implying that it is not very often): aliquando (at times; ☞ nonnunquam = not uncommonly, pretty frequently): and subinde denotes the succession of one action to another, often the repeated succession = repeatedly: unheard of until now, ante hoc tempus inauditum. (As a particle of transition), autem: vero (in truth): nunc, nunc vero (denoting concession): but now, nunc autem. (Denoting consequence), igitur (therefore): quae cum ita sint (since things are so): but now, atqui.