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vix adv.

1 VIC-, with difficulty, with much ado, hardly, scarcely, barely: quae vix aut ne vix quidem adpareant: profluens amnis aut vix aut nullo modo: vix sum compos animi, T.: vix in ipsis tectis frigus vitatur: ex hominum milibus LX vir ad D sese redactos esse dixerunt, to scarcely five hundred, Cs.: ego vix teneor, quin accurram. —Of time, hardly, scarcely, just: Adsum atque advenio Acherunte vix viā altā atque arduā: ah! Vix tandem sensi stolidus! T.—Of immediate sequence, with cum: vix agmen novissimum extra munitiones processerat, cum Galli, etc., Cs.: vix erat hoc plane imperatum, cum illum . . . videres: Vix ea fatus erat, cum, etc., V.—With et or -que (poet.): Vix primos inopina quies laxaverat artūs, Et superincumbens . . . proiecit, etc., V.: Vix ea fatus erat, subitoque fragore Intonuit, V.—With ellips. of cum: Vix proram attigerat: rumpit Saturnia funem, V.: Unam promorat vix pedem Ruina camarae, etc., Ph.

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