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ĕā-tĕnus , adv. is, designates the limit to which an action or condition extends,
I.so far (rare; perh. not before Cic., for in Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 50, the right reading is protenus); followed by quatenus, Cels. 2, 10; Dig. 47, 2, 92: “caules lactucae ab imo depurgatos eatenus, qua tenera folia videbuntur, etc.,” Col. 12, 9, 1; followed by qua, id. 4, 7, 2; id. Arb. 8, 2; Quint. 1, 11, 1.— With quoad: “hoc civile, quod vocant, eatenus exercuerunt, quoad populum praestare voluerunt,” Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 14; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3; id. Univ. 11.—With ut, to such a degree, to that extent: “verba persequens eatenus, ut ea non abhorreant a more nostro,” Cic. Opt. Gen. 7 fin.; Cels. 5, 26; Col. 5, 1, 3.—Cf. with ne, Cels. 6, 6; Suet. Tib. 33; Just. 5, 10.—
II. Of time, so long, hitherto (late Lat.), Capitol. Gordian. 22; Oros. 6, 1.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 1.1.3
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 1.2
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 33
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.10
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 5.26
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 6.6
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 1.4
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 11.1
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 4.7.2
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 5.1.3
    • Cicero, De Optimo Genere Oratorum, 7
    • Cicero, Timaeus, 11
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