formerly Copy link Outline 1. anteā (at some particular past time)2. antĕhac (before this present time)3. ălĭquando (at some time, past or future)4. ōlim (in olden time5. quondam (also used of the future by the poets)6. dūdum (usu. but not always, a short time before; just now) • formerly: 1. anteā (at some particular past time): if it was f. unknown, it has lately been ascertained, si antea fuit ignotum, nuper est cognitum, Cic. Off. 2, 7, 23: a man both praised f., and at this time deserving of praise, vir et a. laudatus, et hoc tempore laudandus, Cic. Phil. 10, 6, 13: there was f. a time, fuit a. tempus, Caes. 2. antĕhac (before this present time): you salute me more kindly now than f., magis me benigne nunc salutas quam antidhac (archaicé), Pl.: f. we could at least hope; now even that is taken from us, a. sperare saltem licebat; nunc etiam id ereptum est, Cic. Fam. 12, 23, med. 3. ălĭquando (at some time, past or future): v. once, sometime. 4. ōlim (in olden time: less freq. used of the future: esp. in the poets): so people f. spoke, sic o. loquebantur, Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 183: Ter. 5. quondam (also used of the future by the poets): the Roman people was f. deemed most lenient to its enemies, P. R. quondam in hostes lenissimus existimabatur, Cic. R. Am. 53, 154: v. once. 6. dūdum (usu. but not always, a short time before; just now): me whom f. no missiles alarmed, quem dudum non ulla movebant tela, Virg. Aen. 2, 726.