since (adv.) Copy link Outline 1. ăbhinc (ago)2. expr. for a long while s., by jamdūdum, jamprīdem (with pres. indic.)3. when a definite date is given, expr. by ante • since (adv.): 1. ăbhinc (ago): with acc. or abl.: you were quaestor fourteen years s., quaestor fuisti a. annos xiv., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, 34: with abl., abhinc annis quattuor, id. R. Com. 13, init. (the acc. appears to be more usual, unless perhaps when a precise point of time is to be indicated). 2. expr. for a long while s., by jamdūdum, jamprīdem (with pres. indic.): he has been indoors long s., jamdudum est intus, Pl. As. 3, 3, 151: cf. Virg. Aen. 2, 647, jampridem invisus divis ... demoror. L. G. § 392, Obs. (A past tense may be used with jampridem, when the reference is emphatically to past time: cf. Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 2, ad mortem te duci jampridem oportebat, where oportet could not have stood, since that would have implied a present obligation and intention on the part of the speaker: cf. Gk. ἐχρῆν·) 3. when a definite date is given, expr. by ante: six months s., ante hos sex menses, Phaedr. 1, 1, 10.