[367] Quondam in its strict sense, at a certain time, or sometimes, as in 7. 378. Comp. the use of ‘sometime’ for ‘formerly.’ So “olim” is ‘at that time,’ which may refer either to the past, as we say ‘once on a time,’ or to the future, like our ‘one day.’ The thought, as Heyne remarks, is from Il. 14. 480 foll., where the Trojan Acamas says to the Greeks, οὔ θην οἴοισίν γε πόνος τ᾽ ἔσεται καὶ ὀϊζὺς Ἡμῖν, ἀλλά ποθ᾽ ὧδε κατακτανέεσθε καὶ ὔμμες. Comp. also Il. 17. 363, καὶ Δαναῶν: οὐδ᾽ οἳ γὰρ ἀναιμωτί γε μάχοντο.
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