[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Nunc</orth>, Aduerbium temporis. <p> <sense><trans lang="en">Now: now at last: at this present: at this time: now and neuer before.</trans> <I>Nunc age.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <I>Nunc agesis.</I> Lucret. <I> Nunc ego & illam scelestam esse, & me miserum sentio.</I> Terent: <trans lang="en">Now at the last I perceiue both that, &c.</trans> <I> Quæ quidem multò plura euenirent, siad quietem integri iremus: nunc onusti cibo & vino, confusa & perturbata cernimus.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">But now we being ouercharged with meate and drinke see. &c.</trans> <I> Nunc, Concedendi aduerbium.</I> <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> Haud mansisti vt ego darem: tute sumpsisti tibi, nunc habeas vt nactus. <trans lang="en">Thou diddest take one thy selfe, nowe therefore take her to thee that thou hast gotten.</trans> <I> Nam bona facile mutantur in peius: nunc quando in bonum verteris uitia? <bibl><author>Quintil.</author></bibl></I> <trans lang="en">But when shall a man turke vices into vertue<12></trans> <I> Mentire ædepol gnate, atque id nunc facis, haud consuetudine.</I> <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">In faith sonne thou liest, and that thou nowe beginnest to do, not according to thy old wont.</trans> <I> Nunc demum.</I> <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Now at length and neuer before.</trans> <I>Nunc demum venis? Terentios.</I> <trans lang="en">What, commest thou nows so late<12></trans> <I>Nunc demum istæc nata oratio est.</I> <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl> <I>Nunc denique.</I> Colum, <trans lang="en">Now at this time.</trans> <I>Pecuniam petit nunc denique? <bibl><author>Cicer.</author></bibl></I> <trans lang="en">What, now so long after, and neaer before.</trans> <I>Nunc illud est, quòd si omnes omnia sua consilia conferant, Atque huic malo salutem quærant, auxilij nihil afferant.</I> <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Now is the matter in that case, that if. &c.</trans> <I>Nunc est profectò, interfici quum perpeti me possum.</I> Tere. <trans lang="en">Now at this vresent so it is, that I could be well contented that one should kill me.</trans> <I>Nunc iam.</I> <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Now at the laft.</trans> <I>I nunc iam.</I> <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Now go thy way.</trans> <I>Nunc iam sum expeditus.</I> Cassius ad CiceronÊ. <trans lang="en">Now at the last I am disyatched.</trans> <I>Nunc ipsum ea lego, ea scribo, vt ij.</I> &c. Cicero. <trans lang="en">Euen nows at this present, I reade those things.</trans> <I>Nunc nuper.</I> <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Nowe of late: now not long since.</trans> <I>Nunc primum.</I> Plaur. <trans lang="en">First and formoft: now and nsner defoie.</trans> <PB> <I>Nunc primùm fac istæc vt lauit: pòst deinde </I><I>Quod iussi ei date bibere, & quantum imperaui, </I><I>Date.</I> <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">First and formost.</trans> <I>Nunc nunc.</I> <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Euen very now: at this very moment.</trans> <I>Nunc nunc insurgite remis.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <I>Nunc nunc adeste.</I> Horat. <I>Nunc huc, nunc illuc.</I> Lucr. <trans lang="en">Sometime this way, somtime that way.</trans> <I>Nunc hos, nunc illos aditus.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Now these, now those entrees.</trans> <I> Nunc reus erat apud Crassum diuitem Vectius de vi.</I> Cice. <trans lang="en">Now at the writing of these letters Vectius was accused before Crassus.</trans> <I>Nunc verò, iam adempta est non modò resistendi, verumetiam suppeditandi facultas.</I> Cicero. <trans lang="en">Nowe at this present there is taken away, &c.</trans> <I>Nunc verò, Aliquando non signisicat tempus.</I> <bibl><author>Cicer.</author></bibl> Quòd si magnam in his Hermagoras habuisset facultatem. &c. <I>Nunc verò ea vis est in homine.</I> &c. <trans lang="en">But now.</trans> </sense>
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
nunc, adv. [Sanscr. nu, nūnam, now; Gr. nu/, nu=n; cf. Lat. num, with demonstr. -ce], now, at present, at this time (prop of that which is present to the speaker or writer). A. In gen. 1. Contrasted with past time (opp. tum, tunc, antea, quondam, aliquando, olim, etc.): longe aliam, inquam, praebes nunc atque olim, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 53; Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 4: alium esse censes nunc me atque olim, id. And. 3, 3, 13: omnia, quae sunt conclusa nunc artibus, dispersa quondam fuerunt, Cic. de Or 1, 42, 187: sed tu illum animum nunc adhibe, quaeso, quo me tum esse oportere censebas, id. Fam. 6, 1, 16; Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 24; Verg. A. 6, 776: sed erat tunc excusatio oppressis; nunc nulla est, Cic. Phil. 7, 5, 14; Liv. 4, 34, 6; 4, 25, 13: arx minus aliquanto nunc munita quam antea, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 5, 13: nunc si videtur, hoc; illud alias, id. Tusc. 1, 11, 23; Liv. 29, 18, 18; Suet. Tib. 29: aut nunc ... aut aliquando, Cic. Mil. 25, 67: ante hoc tempus numquam ... sed nunc, id. Ac. 1, 1, 3.—2. Contrasted with future time (opp. postea, mox, olim, etc.): Cluentio nisi nunc satisfecero, postea satisfaciendi potestas non erit, Cic. Clu. 4, 10; Liv. 39, 19, 6: deos nunc testes esse, mox fore ultores, id. 3, 2, 4; 3, 25, 8: qui olim nominabitur, nunc intellegitur, Quint. 10, 1, 104; Verg. A. 4, 627; cf. Liv. 40, 15, 4.—3.Absol. of present time, without suggestion of contrast, = hodie, nostro tempore: nunc tibi pater hic est, Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 21: Marcellus, qui nunc aedilis curulis est, Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 57.— With the interrog. ne, in the form nun-cine (for num-ce-ne; ante-class.): hem, nuncin demum?Ter. And. 4, 1, 59.— B. Strengthened by demum, denique, primum (v. h. vv.): nunc demum intellego, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 62; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 12: nunc demum rescribo his litteris, Cic. Att. 16, 3, 1: tantum accessit, ut mihi nunc denique amare videar, antea dilexisse, id. ib. 14, 17, A, 5; id. Fam. 9, 14, 11; Ov. A. A. 3, 121: nunc, quam rem oratum huc veni, primum proloquar, Plaut. Am. prol. 50; 2, 2, 63; 2, 2, 52: nunc primum hoc aures tuae crimen accipiunt?Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8, 24; 2, 2, 60, 147: hoc quoque propter tuos ternos denarios nunc primum postulatur, id. ib. 2, 3, 25, 63.—C. In special phrases. 1. Ut nunc est, as things now are, in the present state of affairs, as matters stand: constitui, ut nunc est, cum exercitu proficisci, Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 31, 17: quae (causae) si manebunt ... et, ut nunc est, mansurae videntur, Cic. Att. 12, 29, 1: suaviter, ut nunc est, inquam, Hor. S. 1, 9, 5.— 2. Qui nunc sunt, the men of this time, those now living, the present age: judiciis, qui nunc sunt. hominum, Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 15, 43; Plin. 22, 25, 71, 147; cf.: tace stulta: non tu nunc hominum mores vides?
of the men of this day
, Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 57.—3. Nunc ipsum, just now, at this very time: quin nunc ipsum non dubitabo rem tantam abicere si id erit rectius, Cic. Att. 7, 3, 2; 8, 9, 2; 12, 40, 2: nunc tamen ipsum, id. ib. 12, 16, 11.—Nunc repeated with emphasis: nunc, nunc o liceat crudelem abrumpere vitam, Verg. A. 8, 579 (al. nunc o nunc); 5, 189: nunc, nunc adeste, nunc in hostiles domos Iram vertite, Hor. Epod. 5, 53.—II.Transf.A. Of past or future time, conceived as present, now, at that time. 1. Of past time: id adeo nos nunc factum invenimus, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 46: item Menandri Phasma nunc nuper dedit (Gr. nu=n a)/rti), Ter. Eun. prol. 9: nunc in causā refrixit, Cic. Planc. 23, 55: quos ego campos antea nitidissimos vidissem, hos ita vastatos nunc videbam, ut, etc., id. Verr. 2, 3, 18, 47: nunc reus erat apud Crassum, id. Att. 2, 24, 4: cum eum antea tui similem in dicendo viderim, tum vero nunc ... multo videbam similiorem, id. Brut. 71, 250: incerto nunc etiam exitu victoriae signa intulerunt, Caes. B. G. 7, 62, 6; 6, 40, 6: nunc Saliaribus Ornare pul vinar deorum Tempus erat dapibus, Hor C. 1, 37, 2.—Esp. in orat. obliq., where the nunc of direct narration is retained: dixit, nunc demum se voti esse damnatum, Nep Timol. 5, 3; Liv. 3, 19, 8; 3, 40, 10; 8, 33, 18; 8, 34, 3; 42, 52, 8: nec nunc adulteria objecturum ait, Tac. A. 11, 30; cf. Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 14, 35; Krebs, Antibarb. p. 774. —2. Of future time (rare): quis nunc te adibit? Cui videberis bella? Quem nunc amabis?Cat. 8, 16 sq.; Just. 8, 2, 10.—B. Of the state of affairs, the condition of the argument, etc., now, under these circumstances, in view of this. 1. In gen.: nunc quoniam hominem generavit et ornavit deus, perspicuum sit, etc., Cic. Leg. 1, 9, 27; Prop. 4, 9, 73: vera igitur illa sunt nunc omnia, Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 106: non ego nunc vereor, ne sis mihi vilior istis, Prop. 1, 2, 25; Ov. F. 1, 333: nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10: quid nunc?Plaut. As. 3, 3, 71; id. Aul. 2, 3, 77.—2. Introducing a fact or conclusion opposed to a previous supposition or thought: etiamsi ad vos esset singulos aliquid ex hoc agro perventurum, tamen honestius eum vos universi quam singuli possideretis. Nunc vero cum ad nos nihil pertineat, etc., Cic. Agr. 2, 31, 85; id. Tusc. 3, 1, 2; id. Cat. 2, 7, 16; id. Font. 11, 24: si ecastor nunc habeas quod des, alia verba perhibeas; nunc quia nihil habes, maledictis te eam ductare postulas, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 36; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 8; Quint. 8, 6, 48; 10, 5, 7; Liv. 21, 40, 3: quodsi Mazaeus supervenisset, ingens clades accipi potuit: nunc, dum ille segnis in eo tumulo sedet, etc., Curt. 4, 12, 15.—C. Nunc ... nunc, now ... now; at one time, at another; sometimes ... sometimes: tribuni plebis nunc fraudem, nunc neglegentiam consulum accusabant, Liv. 4, 2: nunc hac parte, nunc illā, id. 34, 13: ut nunc in liminibus starent, nunc errabundi domos suas pervagarentur, id. 1, 29: nunc hos, nunc illos aditus omnemque pererrat Arte locum, Verg. A. 5, 441; 5, 189: nunc huc, nunc illuc curro, Ov. H. 10, 19.—Also thrice repeated: nunc ad prima signa, nunc in medium, nunc in ultimo agmine aderat, Curt. 7, 3, 17; Just. 4, 1, 4; and even five times, Sen. Dial. 5 (Ira), 3, 6.—The first nunc is sometimes poetically omitted: pariterque sinistros, Nunc dextros solvere sinus, Verg. A. 5, 830.—b. Nunc ... mox, Vell. 2, 63.—c. Nunc ... postremo, Liv. 3, 49.—d. Nunc ... modo, Liv. 8, 32; Ov. M. 13, 922.—D. In forming a climax, but now, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8: quae quidem multo plura evenirent, si ad quietem integri iremus: nunc onusti cibo et vino perturbata et confusa cernimus, Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60: si haec non ad cives Romanos, si non ad homines, verum ad bestias conqueri vellem, tamen tantā rerum atrocitate commoverentur. Nunc vero cum loquar apud senatores populi Romani, etc., id. Verr. 2, 5, 67, 171: si ... nunc (vero), id. Font. 11, 25; id. Cat. 2, 7, 14; id. Fam. 15, 13, 3: cum aliquid videbatur caveri posse, tum id neglegi dolebam; nunc vero, eversis omnibus rebus, etc., id. ib. 6, 21, 1: cum ... nunc vero, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 19, 1.—E. In a transition, to introduce a new subject, in that case, now, then: abi nunc, populi fidem implora, Auct. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3; Sen. Ben. 5, 12, 3 sq.; 6, 35, 5; Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 17; cf. Sall. J. 14, 17; for nunciam, v. jam, I. A. 1. b.
