• so much: tantus, tam multus (v. much, so). Special Phr.: (i.) Colloq.: so much the better, tanto melior, Ter.: Plaut.: so much the worse, tanto nequior, Ter.: so much and no more, hactenus, absol.: or with correl., quatenus, quoad, quod (v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. hactenus, III.). Esp. in terminating discourses: hactenus (v. enough, Phr.). (ii.) not so much as (= not even): expr. by ne ... quidem. (iii.) not so much ... as: (1.) perinde, etc. (with negative: foll. by quam): he was not moved by anything so much as by, etc., nulla tamen re p. motus est quam, etc., Suet. Dom. 15, post med. (2.) non magis ... quam: and the great mass of the men were not so much panic-stricken as roused to fury at the accident to their chief, nec ad ducis casum perculsa magis quam irritata est multitudo, Liv. 9, 22, med. (3.) pro (prep. with abl.): these things are not so much to be feared as the common people think, haec nequaquam pro opinione vulgi extimiscenda sunt (Ainsw.). (iv) so much so that (= to such an extent that). v. so (VI., A.).