on (adv.) Copy link Outline I. ForwardII. Continually • on (adv.): I. Forward: porro: v. forward. To go or move on, procedo, pergo: v. to proceed. II. Continually: usque: we will drink on till daylight, usque ad diurnam stellam potabimus, Pl. Men. 1, 2, 62: also absol., I with being beaten on, and he with beating on, are pretty well tired, ego vapulando ille verberando usque, ambo defessi sumus, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 5. Sometimes expr. by de, ex, in comp.: cf. deproeliantes venti, the winds battling on, Hor. Od. 1, 9, 11.