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tŏtĭdem ,
I.num. adj. indecl. [tot, with the demonstr. syllable dem affixed, as in tantundem], just so many, just as many.
I. With a foll. quot: “talentis magnis totidem, quot ego et tu sumus,” Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 114; id. Rud. 2, 7, 6; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 22: “quot orationum genera esse diximus, totidem oratorum reperiuntur,” id. Or. 16, 53: “totidem, quot dixit, ut aiunt, scripta verbis oratio,” id. Brut. 96, 328: “totidem verbis, quot Stoici,” id. Ac. 2, 13, 40: “totidem (partus) quot equae,” Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 168. — Rarely with atque: “cum totidem navibus atque erat profectus Athenas rediret,” Nep. Milt. 7, 4. —
II. Absol.: “Procles et Eurysthenes gemini fratres fuerunt: at hi nec totidem annos vixerunt, anno enim Procli vita brevior fuit,” Cic. Div. 2, 43, 90: “epistula quam modo totidem fere verbis interpretatus sum,” id. Fin. 2, 31, 100; cf. id. Att. 6, 2, 3: “equitum milia erant sex, totidem numero pedites,” Caes. B. G. 1, 48: “quattuor ventos a totidem mundi cardinibus flare,” Quint. 12, 10, 67: “mille talenta rotundentur, totidem altera,” Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 34: “si bene promittant, totidem promittite verbis,” Ov. A. A. 3, 461.—
B. Rarely without a subst. as neutr.: “dixerit insanum qui me totidem audiet (sc. verba),” i. e. will hear the same thing just as often from me, Hor. S. 2, 3, 298.
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 Atticus, 6.2.3
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 1.48
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    • Plautus, Rudens, 2.7
    • Horace, Satires, 2.3.298
    • Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades, 7.4
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    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.43
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 10.67
    • Cicero, Orator, 16.53
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