olden (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. priscus (of early times)2. pristĭnus (former, original • olden (adj.): 1. priscus (of early times): the o. strictness, illa p. severitas, Auct. Har. resp. 13, 27: according to o. custom, p. more, Ov. F. 2, 282: Tac. Rarely = former: the o. love (former mistress), p. Venus, Hor. Od. 3, 9, 17. 2. pristĭnus (former, original: not like priscus referring to an age gone by, but to what is kept up from the past): he should remember the o. valour of the Helvetii, reminisceretur p. virtutis Helvetiorum, Caes. B. G. 1, 13: the o. usage of courts, p. consuetudo judiciorum, Cic. Mil. init. Phr.: o. time, vetustas: contrary to all the precedents of o. time, contra omnia vetustatis exempla, Caes. B. C. 1, 6: in o. times, olim, quondam: v. formerly.
OLDEN Copy link • OLDENpriscus; vetustus; antiquus: in olden-times, olim (in times gone by; opposed to nunc): quondam (in former times, formerly).