immediately Copy link Outline I. ProximatelyII. At once1. stătim (directly, without delay)2. confestim (with all speed3. prōtĭnus4. contĭnuo (without any time intervening)5. actūtum6. e vestīgio (lit. on the spot • immediately: I. Proximately: prŏpĕ, proxĭmē: v. nearly. II. At once: 1. stătim (directly, without delay): Caes.: Cic.: sometimes foll. by ut, ac, etc.: i. after I had read your letter, s. ut tuas literas legeram, Cic. Att. 2, 12, fin.: statim ... simulac, ib. 15, 12: i. after daybreak, statim a prima luce, Col. 11, 1, med.: i. on waking, s. a somno, Tac. G. 22. 2. confestim (with all speed: usu. with verbs of motion): Caes.: Cic.: v. speed. 3. prōtĭnus: v. forthwith. 4. contĭnuo (without any time intervening): v. instantaneously. 5. actūtum: Ter. Cic.: v. instantly. 6. e vestīgio (lit. on the spot: Ger. stehendes Fusses): I i. set out for the spot, at daybreak, e vestigio eo sum profectus prima luce, Sulpic. in Cic. Fam. 4, 12: Caes. (in Cic. Div. Verr. 17., 57, the reading is doubtful). Join: statim et e vestigio, Flor. See also foll. art.
IMMEDIATELY Copy link • IMMEDIATELYconfestim: continuo (opposed to ex intervallo, morā, aliquā, interpositā: confestim denotes haste, and therefore presupposes an agent; continuo denotes the absence of any interval or break between the two actions): extemplo: e vestigio (opposed to delay of any kind; extemplo = ex tempore [tempulum, templum, a short space of time], on the instant, this instant; the best word for doing anything on the moment, in circumstances of difficulty, when there is no time for deliberation; e vestigio, on the spot): illico (= in loco; opposed to slowness; Döderlein thinks that it is confined to actions done on one and the same spot; e vestigio, of actions that are preceded by a change of place; Schmalfield thinks that extemplo is used of nearly continuous, illico, of absolutely continuous actions): statim: protinus (opposed to a future time, postea, alio tempore, etc. In this sense protinus is found in Livy, Nep., and later writers; but not in Cic. or earlier writers, except in one passage, oratio perspicue et protinus conficiens auditorem benevolum; Inv., 2, 15, 20. In other passages of Cic. and Caes., it is found with a verb expressed, denoting or implying progress, what was done further, etc., hostes protinus ex eo loco ad flumen Axonam contenderunt, Caes., B.G., 2, 9; tantus repente invasit terror, ut... protinus aperto sanctiore aerario ex urbe profugeret, B. C. 1, 14; ex hac fuga protinus quae undique convenerant auxilia discesserunt, Handrianus, vol. 4, p. 622): actutum (αὐτίκα, but rare; quam... actutum in Italia fore nuntiaverat, Liv.; only once in Cic., Phil., 12, 11, 26: it comes from actu, as astutum from astu, and is therefore a participial adverb from an obsolete verb actuo, Handrianus, 1, 73, 74): jam jamque (e.g., Caes. enim adventare, jam jamque et adesse ejus equites falso nunciabantur, Caes., B. C. 1, 14; it always implies emotion, Herzog, ad loc): dictum factum; dictum ac factum (no sooner said than done; a colloquial expression = ἅμα ἔπος ἅμα ἔργον). - sine mora (without any delay on the part of the agent). Immediately... then... and at last, extemplo... mox... postremo (e.g., extemplo fusi, fugati, mox intra vallum paventes, compulsi; postremo exuuntur castris, Liv.). When followed by another clause, “that” being omitted, it is = as soon as [Vid: As, (1.), extr.] Without intervention, etc., nullo interveniente.