moment Copy link Outline I. ImportanceII. A very brief space of time1. punctum temporis2. mōmentum (not in Cic.) • moment: I. Importance: mōmentum: esp. in such phr. as magno, maximo m. esse: v. importance (I.). II. A very brief space of time: 1. punctum temporis: at the very same m., p. temporis eodem, Cic. Sext. 24, 53: in a m., temporis puncto, Caes. B. C. 2, 25: also puncto horae, Hor. Ep. 2., 2, 172. (N.B.--Punctum temporis strictly implies no duration of time at all; whereas momentum temporis usu. does.) 2. mōmentum (not in Cic.): usu. with horae, temporis: in a m., momento temporis, Liv. 21, 33, med.: horae momento, Hor. S. 1, 1, 8: but also simply momento, Sen. N. Q. 3, 27, 3 (parvo momento, Caes. B. C. 2. 6 = by a very short interval of time). Phr.: (1). in a m., i. e. presently, statim, confestim v. immediately. (2). for a m., a few m.s, parumper, paullisper: for the difference between these, see little, adj. (Phr.). (3). to the m., i. e. the very m., ad tempus, Caes. B. G. 4, 23. (4). at this very m., nunc quum maxime (also as one word, quummaxime): Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 2: at the very m. of his thus speaking, haec quum maxime loqueretur, Cic. Verr. 5, 54, 142. Sometimes moment = time: esp. in such phrr. as a favourable or unfavourable m., tempus opportunum, adversum; at so critical a m., tali tempore; at the very m., ipso tempore: v. time.