whence Copy link • whence: unde: nor does he come thence w. I would have preferred, nec inde venit unde mallem, Cic.: w. has Cinna been dislodged? unde dejectus est Cinna? id.: that he might answer me, w. he came, ut mihi responderet unde esset, id.: I do not recal to mind w. I have fallen, but w. I have risen, non recordor unde ceciderim, sed unde surrexerim, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 10: the relation will be brief if the beginning be made w. it must needs be, brevis erit narratio si unde necesse est inde initium sumetur, Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28: who had killed the man w. (from whom) he himself was born, qui eum necasset unde ipse natus esset, id. Rosc. Am. 26, 71.