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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• now:
    1. I. At the present time:
      1. 1. nunc: pass.
      2. 2. jam (denoting emphasis and urgency: now, without further delay): I want (the money) now!--You shall have it now (directly), jam opus est--Jam feres, Ter. Ph. 3, 3, 26. Strengthened by tandem = now at length, Virg. Aen. 6, 61. Jam and nunc are often combined = even now: I even now (in anticipation) fear, jam nunc timeo, Civ. Div. Verr. 13, 42. Also jam is sometimes repeated for emphasis: cf. Cic. Ph. 2, 34, 87, jam jam minime miror, i. e. now I no longer wonder: so, Virg. Aen. 2, 701, jam jam nulla mora est.
      3. 3. hŏdiē (in the present day): cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 2, fin., omnes qui tum eos agros, ubi hodie est haec urbs, etc.: Tac. So in praesenti (less good impraesentiarum), at present: Cic.: Nep.: v. present. (In praesens = for the present.)
    2. II. As correl., now ... now:
      1. 1. mŏdo ... mŏdo: (to say) n. this, n. that, m. hoc, m. illud dicere, Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47: step n. quick, n. slow, citus m., m. tardus incessus, Sall. Cat. 15. Instead of the second modo occurs, interdum, Sall. Jug. 62; aliquando, Tac. A. 1, 81.
      2. 2. nunc ... nunc ...: n. on this side, n. on that, n. hac parte, n. illac, Liv. 34, 13, init.: Virg.: Curt.
      3. 3. ălias in connexion with alius, aliter: n. one way, n. another, alias aliter, Cic. Inv. 2, 13, 45. (For which alio tempore may be used.)
    3. III. As particle of transition:
      1. 1. nunc (indicating the matter that comes immediately after): n. I will reply to your letters, n. respondebo ad epistolas tuas, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2: let us n. look at what is more recondite, n. interiora videamus, id. Div. 2, 60, init.: but nunc is rarely so used as to depart entirely from its proper sense as an adv. of time: the foll. is an example of its doing so: n., I should wish you to understand, n. velim tibi persuadeas ..., id. Fam. 15, 4, 2. Note also the phr. age nunc, come now! in calling attention to what follows. (N.B.--Nunc vero is not used merely by way of transition: cf. Cic. Cat. 1, 7, init., nunc vero quae tua est ista vita? i. e. at this very time, etc.: ib. Verr. 5, 67, nunc vero, quum tibi loquar ..., i. e. but at the present time: et pass.
      2. 2. jam (implying not merely a transition of thought, but one in which what follows is to be emphasised): n. you are all pretty well aware of this, jam hoc fere scitis omnes, Cic. Clu. 16, 46: cf. id. Man. 14, 42, jam quantum consilio valeat, vos, Quirites, etc.: ib. paulo infr., humanitate jam tanta est ... (= now; or, and then): also Clu. 13, 36, jam, ut Romae vixerint, now, how they lived at Rome, etc.
      3. 3. autem (esp. in arguments, to indicate the steps by which a conclusion is reached: never the first word in a sentence): cf. Cic. Top. 14, 56, aut hoc, aut illud; hoc autem: non igitur illud, it is either this or that: n., it is this; therefore it is not that: also in the turns of a narrative: cf. Cic. Clu. 13, 37, Asinius autem brevi illo tempore, occiditur, i. e. now, Asinius shortly afterwards, etc.: v. moreover, but.
      4. 4. sed (usu. denoting a greater transition than autem: freq. in Sall.): cf. Sall. Cat. 23, init., sed in his erat Sempronia, n., among these, etc.: also ib. 41, init.; 43, med.
      5. 5. quĭdem, or, with 1 pers. sing. and pl., ĕquĭdem (= it is true, no doubt; and indicating a counter consideration to follow): n., for my part, I am of this opinion ..., but ..., equidem ego sic existimo ..., sed ..., Sall. Cat. 51, ad med.: ib. paulo infr., de poena possumus equidem dicere ...: sed, per deos immortales! ..., n., it is true, we might say, etc.: v. indeed.
      6. 6. stronger than quidem, and usu. denoting contrast with something before, vēro (never first in a sentence): cf. Liv. 26, 11, med., id vero adeo superbum atque indignum visum, n., this (really) seemed so insulting, etc.: also in exhortation and calling attention, age vero! come n.! Cic. Man. 14., 40.
      7. 7. only as enclit., dum (in calling attention): Sosia, come n.! I want a word with you, Sosia adesdum! paucis te volo, Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 2: esp. with age: come n.! explain this to me, agedum! hoc mihi expedi, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 27: Cic.
      8. 8. porro: esp. in phr., age porro! come n.! (to call attention): Cic. Verr. 5, 22, init.
      9. 9. tandem: v. pray.