when Copy link Outline 1. quum2. ŭbi3. ŭt4. quando • when: 1. quum: the most gen. word for the varying shades of meaning of when: it denotes the coincidence of two facts, or the sequence of one after the other. When used purely of time with no idea of cause and effect, quum is constr. with indic. of any tense (v. Lat. Gr. § 485): so too with indic. of repeated actions, when it means as often as. Where cause and effect are implied, constr. with subj.: hence in historical sequence it usually takes subj. (v. Lat. Gr. §§ 483, 484), some relation of cause and effect being almost necessarily implied: with subj., if for when we might substitute since, whereas, etc.: or if it is used by periphr. to supply the lack of a past part. active in Latin. 2. ŭbi: denotes a point of time from which some other takes its beginning: w. (as soon as) the Helvetii were informed they sent ambassadors, ubi Helvetii certiores facti sunt, legatos mittunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 7: it is constr. with indic. usually; the subj., where it occurs, being hardly attributable to "ubi:" e. g., w. once a man has perjured himself he must not henceforth be believed, ubi semel quis pejeraverit, ei credi postea non oportet, Cic. Rab. Post. 13, 36: where the subj. s used because it is a supposed case. 3. ŭt: as soon as ever: to mark an occurrence immediately preceding the main action: w. I had read your letter, immediately I wrote mine, litteras scripsi statim ut tuas legeram, Cic. Att. 2, 12, 3. 4. quando: interrogative, direct, and in dependent sentences: O country, w. shall I see you? O rus, quando ego te aspiciam? Hor. S. 2, 6, 60: we do not see w. old age is creeping over us, non intelligitur quando obrepat senectus, Cic. Phr.: Caesar, when he had landed his army, hastened against the enemy, Caesar exposito exercitu ad hostes contendit, Caes.: Sabinus w. he had encouraged his men, gave the signal, Sabinus suos hortatus signum dat, id.: Tarquinius, w. besieging Ardea, lost his kingdom, Tarquinius Ardeam oppugnans regnum perdidit, Liv.: since the time w. Deucalion climbed the mountain, ex quo Deucalion montem ascendit, Juv. 1, 81: w. (what time) first Deucalion cast the stones into an empty world, quo tempore primum Deucalion vacuum lapides jactavit in orbem, Virg. G. 1, 62.