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• now:

I. At the present time:

1. nunc: pass.
2. jam (denoting emphasis and urgency: now, without further delay): I want (the money) now!--You shall have it now (directly), jam opus est--Jam feres, Ter. Ph. 3, 3, 26. Strengthened by tandem = now at length, Virg. Aen. 6, 61. Jam and nunc are often combined = even now: I even now (in anticipation) fear, jam nunc timeo, Civ. Div. Verr. 13, 42. Also jam is sometimes repeated for emphasis: cf. Cic. Ph. 2, 34, 87, jam jam minime miror, i. e. now I no longer wonder: so, Virg. Aen. 2, 701, jam jam nulla mora est.
3. hŏdiē (in the present day): cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 2, fin., omnes qui tum eos agros, ubi hodie est haec urbs, etc.: Tac. So in praesenti (less good impraesentiarum), at present: Cic.: Nep.: v. present. (In praesens = for the present.)

II. As correl., now ... now:

1. mŏdo ... mŏdo: (to say) n. this, n. that, m. hoc, m. illud dicere, Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47: step n. quick, n. slow, citus m., m. tardus incessus, Sall. Cat. 15. Instead of the second modo occurs, interdum, Sall. Jug. 62; aliquando, Tac. A. 1, 81.
2. nunc ... nunc ...: n. on this side, n. on that, n. hac parte, n. illac, Liv. 34, 13, init.: Virg.: Curt.
3. ălias in connexion with alius, aliter: n. one way, n. another, alias aliter, Cic. Inv. 2, 13, 45. (For which alio tempore may be used.)

III. As particle of transition:

1. nunc (indicating the matter that comes immediately after): n. I will reply to your letters, n. respondebo ad epistolas tuas, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2: let us n. look at what is more recondite, n. interiora videamus, id. Div. 2, 60, init.: but nunc is rarely so used as to depart entirely from its proper sense as an adv. of time: the foll. is an example of its doing so: n., I should wish you to understand, n. velim tibi persuadeas ..., id. Fam. 15, 4, 2. Note also the phr. age nunc, come now! in calling attention to what follows. (N.B.--Nunc vero is not used merely by way of transition: cf. Cic. Cat. 1, 7, init., nunc vero quae tua est ista vita? i. e. at this very time, etc.: ib. Verr. 5, 67, nunc vero, quum tibi loquar ..., i. e. but at the present time: et pass.
2. jam (implying not merely a transition of thought, but one in which what follows is to be emphasised): n. you are all pretty well aware of this, jam hoc fere scitis omnes, Cic. Clu. 16, 46: cf. id. Man. 14, 42, jam quantum consilio valeat, vos, Quirites, etc.: ib. paulo infr., humanitate jam tanta est ... (= now; or, and then): also Clu. 13, 36, jam, ut Romae vixerint, now, how they lived at Rome, etc.
3. autem (esp. in arguments, to indicate the steps by which a conclusion is reached: never the first word in a sentence): cf. Cic. Top. 14, 56, aut hoc, aut illud; hoc autem: non igitur illud, it is either this or that: n., it is this; therefore it is not that: also in the turns of a narrative: cf. Cic. Clu. 13, 37, Asinius autem brevi illo tempore, occiditur, i. e. now, Asinius shortly afterwards, etc.: v. moreover, but.
4. sed (usu. denoting a greater transition than autem: freq. in Sall.): cf. Sall. Cat. 23, init., sed in his erat Sempronia, n., among these, etc.: also ib. 41, init.; 43, med.
5. quĭdem, or, with 1 pers. sing. and pl., ĕquĭdem (= it is true, no doubt; and indicating a counter consideration to follow): n., for my part, I am of this opinion ..., but ..., equidem ego sic existimo ..., sed ..., Sall. Cat. 51, ad med.: ib. paulo infr., de poena possumus equidem dicere ...: sed, per deos immortales! ..., n., it is true, we might say, etc.: v. indeed.
6. stronger than quidem, and usu. denoting contrast with something before, vēro (never first in a sentence): cf. Liv. 26, 11, med., id vero adeo superbum atque indignum visum, n., this (really) seemed so insulting, etc.: also in exhortation and calling attention, age vero! come n.! Cic. Man. 14., 40.
7. only as enclit., dum (in calling attention): Sosia, come n.! I want a word with you, Sosia adesdum! paucis te volo, Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 2: esp. with age: come n.! explain this to me, agedum! hoc mihi expedi, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 27: Cic.
8. porro: esp. in phr., age porro! come n.! (to call attention): Cic. Verr. 5, 22, init.
9. tandem: v. pray.

• NOW

adverb, nunc (at the present time; opposed to tunc): jam (opposed to tum; especially as a particle of transition): in praesentia (Cic., Caes., Nep., Liv.; for the present): in hoc tempore, in praesenti (Cic., Fam., 2, 10; under present circumstances, at this critical time, etc.): in praesens (☞ post-Augustan; also, ad praesens, now and the time immediately following: ☞ impraesentiarum, depraesentiarum are unclassical). Even now = (α) precisely at this moment, nunc cum maxime or cum maxime only; (β) just before the present moment, modo. Now directly [Vid: IMMEDIATELY]: Now - now (= at one time - at another), modo - modo (or nunc or interdum, or tum); nunc - nunc (or modo. ☞ OBS., nunc - nunc not in prose before Livy); alias - alias (or interdum or plerumque or aliquando): hodie (today): nunc ipsum: hoc ipso tempore (at this very time, emphatic): now at length, nunc demum: now and then, interdum (mostly implying that it is not very often): aliquando (at times; ☞ nonnunquam = not uncommonly, pretty frequently): and subinde denotes the succession of one action to another, often the repeated succession = repeatedly: unheard of until now, ante hoc tempus inauditum.
(As a particle of transition), autem: vero (in truth): nunc, nunc vero (denoting concession): but now, nunc autem.
(Denoting consequence), igitur (therefore): quae cum ita sint (since things are so): but now, atqui.

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