Hitherto: so much: to this time. Sed hæc hactenus: ne videar, &c. Cic. But thys muche haue I saide hitherto, &c. Sed hactenus, Idem. Cic. Qui hactenus aliquid egit, vt earum rationem rerum explicaret quæ mari cœlóue fierent. Cic. Which hath indeuored thys farre to declare some cause or reason, &c. Hacte nus tamen vt sarta tecta habeat. Cels. de vsu fructu. So farre onely as he kept it in good reparation, and no further. Interpellatus tumultuosioribus literis hactenus excanduit, vt malum ijs qui descissent, minaretur. Sueton Beeing troubled with buile and sedstious letters, hee was thys farce money, that he menaced punishment to suche as, &c. Si domini debitor sit sernus, & ab alto mutuatus ei soluerit hactenus non vercit, quatenus domino debet. Vlpianus. If the bond man owe his maifter a summe of money, and borrowe of an other to pay him, for so much of the summe borrowed as riseth to his maisters debte, doeth not turne to the maisters aduantage, but the residue aboue doth.

I. In space.

A. Lit. (very rare), to this place, thus far: hactenus summus inaurato crater erat asper acantho, Ov. M. 13, 700: hactenus dominum est illa secuta suum, id. Tr. 1, 10, 22; id. Am. 2, 11, 16; cf.: hactenus in occidentem Germaniam novimus, Tac. G. 35 init.: hac Trojana tenus fuerit fortuna secuta, Verg. A. 6, 62.—Far more freq. and class. (esp. freq. in Cic.),

B. Transf., to indicate the limit of a discourse or of an extract, thus far, to this point, no further than this: hactenus mihi videor de amicitia quid sentirem potuisse dicere, Cic. Lael. 7, 24: hactenus admirabor corum tarditatem, qui, etc., id. N. D. 1, 10, 24: hactenus fuit, quod caute a me scribi posset, id. Att. 11, 4, 2: externae arbores hactenus fere sunt, Plin. 14, 1, 1, 1; cf. id. 14, 3, 4, 36: sed me hactenus cedentem nemo insequatur ultra, Quint. 12, 10, 47: verum hactenus evagari satis fuerit, id. 2, 4, 32; so after a quotation: hactenus Trogus, Plin. 11, 52, 114, 276: hactenus Varro, id. 14, 14, 17, 96.—

b. In this sense usually ellipt., esp. as a formula of transition: sed, si placet, in hunc diem hactenus: reliqua differamus in crastinum, thus far for to-day, Cic. Rep. 2, 44, 4 fin.: ergo haec quoque hactenus: redeo ad urbana, id. Att. 5, 13, 2: sed haec hactenus: nunc, etc., so much for this (very freq.), id. Div. 2, 24, 53; id. Lael. 15, 55; id. Att. 13, 21, 4; Quint. 4, 2, 30 et saep.: haec hactenus, Cic. Att. 16, 6, 2: sed de hoc loco plura in aliis: nunc hactenus, id. Div. 2, 36, 76: hactenus haec, Hor. S. 1, 4, 63: sed hactenus, praesertim, etc., Cic. Att. 5, 13, 1; so, sed hactenus, id. ib. 9, 7, 3; 13, 9, 1; 14, 17, 2; Plin. 36, 6, 5, 46: de litteris hactenus, Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 1; 3, 7, 3; 16, 24, 1; id. Att. 6, 2, 1 al.: hactenus de soloecismo, Quint. 1, 5, 54: hactenus ergo de studiis ... proximus liber, etc., id. 1, 12, 19: hactenus de poëtis, Lact. 1, 5, 15: hactenus de mundo, Plin. 2, 38, 38, 102; 15, 8, 8, 34: hactenus, et pariter vitam cum sanguine fudit, Ov. M. 2, 610: hactenus et gemuit, id. ib. 10, 423: hactenus: ut vivo subiit, id. F. 5, 661: hactenus Aeacides, id. M. 12, 82; 14, 512.—

II. In time, to indicate a limit, up to this time, thus far, so long, till now, hitherto, no longer than this (poet. and post-Aug.): hactenus quietae utrimque stationes fuere: postquam, etc., Liv. 7, 26, 6: hactenus pro libertate, mox de finibus pugnatum est, Flor. 1, 11, 5; Ov. M. 5, 250: hac celebrata tenus sancto certamina patri, Verg. A. 5, 603; 11, 823: dispecta est et Thule, quam hactenus nix et hiems abdebat, Tac. Agr. 10; id. A. 13, 47.—

III. In extent.

A. Absol., opp. to more, to this extent, so much, only so much, only (very rare, and not anteAug.): Burrum sciscitanti hactenus respondisse: ego me bene habeo, Tac. A. 14, 51; so ellipt., Suet. Dom. 16.—Far more freq. and class.,

B. Relat., like eatenus, to this extent that, so much as, so far as, as far as; corresp. with quatenus, quoad, quod, si, ut (so most freq.), ne: hactenus non vertit (in rem), quatenus domino debet: quod excedit, vertit, Dig. 15, 3, 10, 7: hactenus existimo nostram consolationem recte adhibitam esse, quoad certior ab homine amicissimo fieres iis de rebus, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3: patrem familiae hactenus ago, quod aliquam partem praediorum percurro, Plin. Ep. 9, 15, 3: meritoria officia sunt; hactenus utilia, si praeparant ingenium, non detinent, Sen. Ep. 88.—With ut: haec artem quidem et praecepta duntaxat hactenus requirunt, ut certis dicendi luminibus ornentur, Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 119; id. Div. 1, 8, 13; Hor. S. 1, 2, 123; Ov. H. 15, 156.—With ne: curandus autem hactenus, ne quid ad senatum, etc., Cic. Att. 5, 4, 2; Quint. 6, 2, 3; Tac. A. 14, 7; cf.: (eum) interficere constituit, hactenus consultans, veneno an ferro vel qua alia vi, id. ib. 14, 3 init.