oft Copy link Outline 1. saepe2. crēbro (frequently; in close succession3. complūries (a good many times infreq.)4. how often, so often, quŏties, tŏties (neither necessarily implying any large number of times) • oft, often: 1. saepe: pass. The compar. saepius is oft. used with quasi-positive sense: it needs to be o. (again and again) repeated, saepius est dicendum, Cic. Am. 22, 85: Virg. Often strengthened, saepenumero (oftentimes): Caes. B. G. 1, 33: Cic. Very often, persaepe, Cic. (N.B.--Saepenumero, like saepius, lays more stress on the thing mentioned: cf. Cic. Sen. 2, init., saepenumero admirari soleo, oftentimes, or again and again have I, etc.) 2. crēbro (frequently; in close succession: whereas saepe denotes simply many times). v. frequently (where the use of frequens, frequenter, etc., is explained). 3. complūries (a good many times infreq.): Cato in Gell. 5, 21, extr.: Pl. 4. how often, so often, quŏties, tŏties (neither necessarily implying any large number of times): how o. did night overtake him ..., quoties illum nox oppressit ..., Cic. Sen. 14, 49: as o. as, toties ... quoties, id. Fam. 7, 7: Liv.: Virg. Hence, how o. soever, as o. as ever quotiescunque; foll. by toties as correl. Cic. Clu. 18, 51. Pretty o., aliquoties: Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9: Liv. (N.B.--Sometimes expr. by frequent. verb: to cry out o., again and again, clamito; to write o., scriptito: etc. See the several verbs.)