The firste, seconde, or third stroke when men fight. Marmora deformata prima manu. Quint. Procax manus. Senec. Supina manus. Seneca. Prophana. Ouid. Supplex. Ouid. Proterna. Ouid. Tacit. Val. Flac. Pura. Hor. Tenera. Propert. Retorta. Hor. Torpens. Lucan. Rigida. Ouid. Tremens. Ouid. Rorata. Stat. Tremula. Ouid. Rustica. Quint. Truculenta. Senec. Sacrilega. Hor. Valida. Ouid. Scelesta. Senec. Vara. Ouid. Sinistra. Catul. Velata. Plaut. Strictæ manus in fata ali Vesana. Ouid. cuius. Ouid. Victrix manus mille laborum. Sublata manus ad cœlsi. Hor. Ouid. Hands lift vp to heauen. Virginea manus. Ouid. Submissæ. Ouid. Vnca manus. Stat. Abrumpere manibus. Ouid. Aequis manibus abscedere. Tacit. To depart, neither side hauing the better of the other. Abscissa manus lacerto. Lucan. Abstinere manus, vide ABSTINEO. Abstineo me manum. Plaut. Figurate dictum. Abstinere manum alieno, Vide ABSTINEO. Addere manus in vincula, Vide ADDO. Adducere rem ad mucrones & manus. Tacit. To bring the matter to dint of sworde and hand strokes. Adhibere manum. Quint. Medicas adhibere manus ad vulnera. Virg. To put the hande to woundes to dresse and cure them. Infirmas adiuuat ira manus. Ouid. Admouere manum, vide ADMOVEO. Afferre manus, vide AFFERO. Inassuera manu agere aliquid. Ouidius. To do a thing with his hand that he was not woonte to do. Amittere è manibus. Liu. Amputat ense manus. Lucan. Appetere manibus, Vide APPETO. Apponere manum ad os. Cæl. ad Ciceron. To put the hande to the mouth. Apprehendere manu. Plaut. To take by the hand. Armare manus, Virg. Manibus supinis arripere beneficium. Sen. Inter manus arripere aliquem. Plautus. To take vp one in their handes, and hoise him aboue the grounde. Asserere manu & manum, Vide ASSERO. A lenone manu asserere, vide A uel AB præpositiones. Inter manus auferre è conuiuio, Vide INTER. Manu alicuius cadere. Ouid. To be slaine by one. Cadere sua manu. Tacit. To kil himselfe. Capere manu & in manum. Virg. Plaut. Tremente manu tela capio. Ouid. Vibes & agros manu capere. Salust. To conquere cities & countries by force. Pugnam manu capessijt. Tacit. Carpere pomum manu. Virg. Cedo manum, vide CEDO. Cohibere manus. Stat. To stay. Collidere manus. Quint. To clappe the hands. Commaculare manus sanguine. Virg. Componere manus manibus, Vide COMPONO. Comprimere manus, Vide. COMPRIMO. Conferre manus manibus, vide CONFERO. Confligere manu. Cic. Oppida manu congesta. Virg. Conserere manum cum hostibus, Vide CONSERO. Ex iure manu consertum, vide EX præpositionem. Constrictas in se conseruere manus. Ouid. Continere manus, vide CONTINEO Cruentis manibus contingere aliquid. Virg. Decertare manu, Vide DECERTO. Dede manus, Lucre. Yeelde: confesse thy selfe vanquished. Defendere se manu, vide DEFENDO. Deficiunt ad cœpta manus. Ouid. The handes were not able to siuish that they begunne. Manibus his denumeraui. Plaut. Docta manu distinguere crinem. Senec. Diuellere montes manibus. Lucr. Dare manum, Vide Dare manus in DO. Victas dare manus, Ouid. To confesse himself vanquished. In manum date, Vide DO. Manu docere. Cic. To teach plainely, and as it were, to pointe with the singer. Ducere aliquem manu. Virg. To leade by the hand. Emittere manu, Vide EMITTO. Eruere manu syluas. Virg. Euadere manus alicuius. Virg. Scelestas hostium euita manus. Senec. Teneras exercent manus puellæ. Propert. Manibus prælium facere. Salust. To fight with hand strokes: to come to hand strokes in sighting. Ferre manum in prælia. Virg. Manum ferre contra, Vide FERO. Manu fingere. Senec. To worke cunningly with the hand. Manibus demissis fugere. Plaut. Glomerare manum bello. Virg. Pollutas habere manus. Oui. Manum habere sub pallio. Quint. To be ydle & lyther: to holde ls hande vnder his coate. Iactare manus. Quint. To wagge the handes. Pcroulgata atque in manibus iactara & excussa. Cic. Illidere manus. Cic. To clappe the handes vpon. Immiscere manus mambus. Virg. To begiune to fight. Imponere manum, Vide IMPONO. Impooere manum sindijs. Ouid. To set himselfe to studie: to studie. Imponere summam manum alicui operi, Vide IMPONO. Vlcima manus imposita est cœ pro. Ouid. We haue atchieued or ended that we beganne. Vnctis manibus tremor incidit. Hor. Nunquam libri illi in manus incidunt. Cic. Those bookes neuer happened into my hands, I neuer saw them. Incidere in manus hostis. Cic. To fall into. Inferre manus alicui, Vide INFERO. Manum inijcere, Vide INIICIO. To lay haudes on: to attach: to arrest. Inijcere manus alicui. Ouid. To lay handes on one. Insere manum tunicis. Ouid. Intenderat Seiano manus. Tac. He layed handes on Seianus. Intentare manus in aliquem. Vide INTENTO. Intersici manu. Quint. Inuoluere manum caudis serpentum. Ouid. Iungere manus. Miscere manus. Tac. To soine battaile: to beginne to fight. Librare manum, Vide Artisici temperamento manum librare. in TEMPERO. Manu salutem mittunt milites. Plaut. To deliuer a token to one as a commendation to a man. Sanguinea manu mouere bella. Ouid. Forti manu obire. Senet. Malum manu obiectum. Plaut. De manibus rem omittere. Liu. To leaue off that they bad in hande. Onerare ambas manus iaculis. Virg. Parere sibi lethum manu. Virg. To kill himselfe. Petire manibus hominum. Virg. To be staine of men. Immunda manu perungere tota ora. Ouid. Insana manu plangere pectora. Ouid. Porrigere manus. Catul. To stretch out his handes to. Manus multas poscit hoc opus. Plin. iun. This worke requireth the helpe of many. Prætigent manus. Tacit. Premere aliquid manu. Lucr. To holde faste in his hand. Pulsare aliquem vtraque manu. Virgil. To thnmpe and beate with both hands. Auaris manibus rapi. Ouid. Regere manum alicuius manu superimposita. Quintil. To hold an others hande in ours, and so to rule it, as in teaching one to write. Manus remittere in aleæ ludo. Sueton. To remitte or forgyue one an ill casre that he hath throwne at the dice, not to take a hande that he hath wonne. Vix retinere manum. Oui. Rem penè ad manus reuocauit. Cicer. He brought the matter almost to be tried by blowes againe. Satiare manus sanguine. Lucan. Scructa manibus mœnia. Virg. Manum ferulæ subducere. Iuuenal. To bee taughte, and goe to schoole: to suffer correction in schoole vnder a maister. Subuoluere saxa manibus. Virg. Lepidè hoc succedit sub manus negotium. Plaut. This matter goeth pleasantly forwarde with vs. Comites illi tui delecti, manus erant tuæ. Cice. Those thy companions which thou haddest picked out, were thy handes to doe and bring to passe what thy pleasure was. Ad manum esse, Vide AD prepositionem. In manu, & In manibus esse, vide IN manibus & IN manus dare in DO. Esse in manibus laudatio oratio aut liber dicitur, qui editus est & legitur. Ci. The oration or booke is abroad in mens hands to be read. In manu meaest, Vide IN præpositionem. Inter manus aliquid esse dicitur, per translationem. Virgil. To be in ones handes or power to doe what he liste. Cui plus in mnnu sit, qum tibi. Plaut. Which is richer or hath more possessions than you hane. Cuiipsi nihil est in manu. Plaut. Which hath nothing him selfe. In manus sumere, Quint. To take in his handes. Immunis aram si terigit manus. Hor. Omnes maiores natu manus ad Cæsarem tendere. Cæs. All the elder sorte helde vp their handes to Cæser. Hedui manus tendere deditionÊ significare. Cæs. The Hednãs helde vp their handes and signified that they yeelded. Supinas manus ad cœium ac deos tendentes Cæs. Correptum manibus tenere. Virgil. To take and holde in theyr handes. Dicitur manus ad cœlum tollens precatus. Liu. Breui manu tradere. Vlpian. To deliuer by a shrte meanes, or to pay foorthwith, that one promiseth. Mann longa tradere, labolenus. To proffer and promise a thing but not to deliuer it, o to pay or deliuer to one by a further meanes, and not immediately: as, by the appointment of our creditont in the countrey, to pay to an occupier of London, that must after be Ûeliuered to him, either in wares or otherwise. Venire ad manum, vide AD præpositionem. Res ad manus, atque pugnam veniebat, Cicer. The matter came to be tryed by battaile. Venire in manus. Salust. To come into the enimies bands. Versantur inter manus libri, aut scripta. Cælius ad Cicetonem. Bookes bee commonly occupied and tead of men. Manum non verterim. Cic. I passe not: I regard not: I would not turne my hande for it. Manus vetant prius, qum penes sese habeant, quicquam credere. Plaut. My handes will not haue me to beleeue thee vntill they feele and holde that which thou promisest. I wil not beleeue thee before I haue it in my hand. Vibrant tela manus. Lucan. Vincire manus post terga. Virg. Iniurias suas manu vindicare. Salust. To beate one or fight with him in reuengement of iniurie done. Ad manum, Vide AD præpositionem. A manu seruus, & manibus, Vide A vel AB præpositiones. Ad manum seruus, Vide AD præpositionem. Totum hominem tibi trado de manu in manum tuam istam. Cic. I discharge my selfe, and committee the man wholy into your handes. De manibus aliquid amittere. Cic. To leese out of his handes. Per manus. Cæs. From hande to hand. Per manus tradita disciplina vel historia dicltur. Liui. Quintil. When an historie or kinde of learning goeth from one to another by mouth only without writing: taught by mouth from one to an other. Præ manu pecuniam aliquam darc. Terent. To giue one money before hande. Reddidi patri omne aurum quod mihi fuit præ manibus. Plaut. I haue deliuered al the money to my father, that I hadde in hand. Sub mauum esse, pro ad latus esse, promptum, & expeditum. Vocontij sub manu vt essent, per quorum loca fideliter mihi pateret iter. Plancus Cicero. That the Vocontians should be nigh to me, and in redinesse, through whose country I might safely passe. Quo celerius ac sub manu annunciari cognoscíque posset quid in prouincia quaque gereretur. Sueton. That it might more speedily and readily be signified and known, what was done, &c. Quem ego credo manibus, pedibúsque obnixèomnia Facturum. Ter. Who, I beleeue with hand and foot, or with might and maine wil dee the vttermost he can, &c. Conari manibus, pedibus, noctesqúe & dies. Terent. To indenor with hand and foote, tooth and naile, might and maine, or as much as in him lyeth. Manupretium. Cic. The wages or reward for workemanship. Nonnulh scribunt Manipretium. Plin. Pro manus pretio aliquid dare. Alphenus. Manus. An hooke or grapple to fasten shippes togither. Ferrea manus. Lucan. Ferrea dum puppis rapidos manus inserit vncos. Lucan. Manus. Virg. Quint. A bande of souldiours: a companie of men of warre: an armie. Agrestes manus. Virg. Ardens iuuenum manus. Virg. Multa manus poetarum Horat. A great multitude or companie. Parata prælio manus. Tacit. Paruula manus. Brutus ad Ciceronem. A little hand of men: a small company. Valida manus. Tacit. Orare pacem manu. Virg. Manumittere sernum, siue diuisim, siue coniunctim legas. Cicer To manumise: to make free: to giue a bonde man libertie.

First: best: chiefe: most excellent: most principall. Primus ante omnes. Virg. First of all. Prima duo capita epistolæ tuæ. Cic. Ciuitatis primus Dyrrhachinus. Ci. Dyrrachinus chiefe of the citie. Genere & nobilitate sui municipij facilè primus. Ci. Without cõparison the noblest mã of the citie that be dwelt in. Quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo repudies. Terent. Those things which you haue thought best. Prædium quod primum siet, si me rogabis, sic dicã, &c. Cato. If you will aske me which is the best maner. Prima & summa, habentur vtilia, Cic. Homo primus. Cic. An excellent honest man. Primus apud te est. Tere. You loue him best of al men: or he is in greatest credite & estimation with you of all men. Est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium rerÛ volunt nec sunt. Terent. Which in all matters would seeme to rule the rost and be chiefe, and yet are not in deede. Primam dices, scio, si videris, Terent. Thou wilt saye shee is an excellent peece, and that there is none to be compared to hir. Laus prima illis est. Pli. They are moste esteemed, praysed, or set by. Honos primus virtutis. Horat. De prinatis me primùm sententiam rogauit. Cice. Of all them that were out of office he first asked mine opinion. Primi ex omnibus philosophis. Cic. Prima consiliorum: Hoc est, prima consilia. Tacit. Mihi responsum primus dedit ille petenti. Virg. He first answered me asking the question. Primo accessu. Liu. At his sirst comming. Aditus primi difficiles. Horat. Prima adolescentia, Vide ADOLEO. Primo statim aduÊtu. Li. By and by so sonne as he arriued. Aestas prima incœperat. Virg. Sommer was newlye begon. Aetas prima. Virg. Anni primi. Virg. Aspectu primo. Liu. At the first sight. Barba prima. Sen. The first yong beard. Corpora prima. Lucret. The foure elements. Primo quoque die. Col. So sonne as anye occasion or oportunitie shall be giuen. Primo diluculo. Suet. Early in the morning. Prima facie. Caius. At the first fight. Prima fronte, Idem. Quint. Prima ab infantia. Tac. Euen from his infancie. Primo introitu. Plin. At the first entrie. Prima iuuenta, Plin. Labes prima mali. Vir. Primis labris aliquid gustare. Ci. Scantly to touch a thing: to smatter of a thing and not to knowe it perfirely: to tast a little. Prima lux. Suet. Day breaking. Eò sum profectus prima luce. Sulpitius Ciceroni. Earlye in the morning. A prima luce, Vide A præpositionem. Primo mane cum familia prodeundum est. Colum. Earlye in the morning. Prima quaque occasione. Plin. iun. At the first occafion that shall be giuen. Primo progressu. Cic. Prima specie. Liu. At the first sight or appearance. Consilia callida & audacia, prima specie læra. Li. Craftye & desperate counsayles at the beginning be pleasaunt. Nominibus vterentur his quæ prima specie admirationem re explicata risum mouerent. Cic. Did vse those names, which at the first beginning caused men to wonder, but when the matter was declared, made them laugh at thÊ. Primo quoque tempore. Liu. So soone as any occasion or oportunitie shalbe. Primis tenebris mouit. Liu. In the beginning of the nighte: in the eueniug: so soone as it began to war darke. Prima vespera. Suet. As soone as euening was come. Primo vespere. Tac. A primo, Cic. At the beginning: at the first. A primo homo insanibat. Ter. A primo lucis. Macrobius. Vide. A. Cum primis, Vide CVM præpositionem. Sapiens cum primis nostræ ciuitatis homo. Cic. As wise a man as any is lightly in our citie. In primis, Vide IN præpositionem. Homo in primis improbissimus, Cic. A very wicked mã: as wicked a man as any is lightly to be found. In primis splendidus Minutius eques Romanus. Cic. Primas dare alicui: Sub. partes, Vide in Do, dare primas. Agere primas. Vide AGO. Concedere alicui primas, Vide CONCEDO. Primas deferre alicui. Ci. To giue to one the cheefe prayse: to attribute most vnto one: to giue him the pricke & price. Primarum partium esse. Cic.

I. In gen.: qui primus vulnus dicitur obligavisse, Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57: primus sentio mala nostra: primus rescisco omnia: Primus porro obnuntio, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 7: verum primum: verum igitur et extremum, Cic. Off. 3, 6, 27: primae litterae, id. Att. 9, 6, 5: primus inter homines nobilissimos, id. Sest. 3, 6: primi ex omnibus philosophis, id. Fin. 4, 7, 17: primus Graeciae in Thraciam introiit, Nep. Alcib. 7, 4: primus de mille fuisses, Ov. H. 17, 105: in primis, among the first, in the foremost ranks, Nep. Paus. 5, 3: in primis stetit, id. Epam. 10, 3: in primis pugnantes, Sall. C. 60, 6: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire, id. J. 6, 1: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, etc., poet.), Verg. A. 11, 573: primus post eos quos poëtae tradiderunt movisse aliqua circa rhetoricen Empedocles dicitur (= secundus or proximus ab iis), Quint. 3, 1, 8.—

II. In partic.

A. In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, etc.: in primā provinciā, at the entrance of the province, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 2: digitus, the tip of the finger, Cat. 2, 3: dentes, the front teeth, Plin. 19, 2, 11, 35: ranis prima lingua cohaeret, the end of the tongue, id. 11, 37, 65, 172: primā statim nocte, at the beginning of the night, Col. 10, 190: sol, i. e. the rising sun, Verg. A. 6, 255: luna, i. e. the new moon, Plin. 2, 13, 10, 56.—With quisque, the first possible, the very first: primo quoque tempore, at the very first opportunity, Cic. Fam. 13, 57, 1: primo quoque die, id. Phil. 8, 11, 33: me tibi primum quidque concedente, id. Ac. 2, 16, 49: fluit voluptas et prima quaeque avolat, id. Fin. 2, 32, 106.—Subst.: prīma, ōrum, n., the first part, the beginning: quod bellum, si prima satis prospera fuissent, Liv. 8, 3.—Of the first principles or elements of things, Lucr. 4, 186: prima consiliorum (for prima consilia), Tac. H. 2, 11: a primo, from the beginning, at first: multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139; Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 14; 4, 3, 37: in illā pro Ctesiphonte oratione submissius a primo: deinde pressius, Cic. Or. 8, 26: suam vim retinere a primo ad extremum, id. Fin. 4, 13, 32: hoc a primo cogitavit, id. Att. 8, 11, 2; id. Phil. 2, 30, 75 Halm ad loc.: id a primo rectissime dicitur, id. Fin. 3, 9, 32 Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first: equites in primo late ire jubet, in the van, Sall. J. 68, 4: qui numerus in primo viget, jacet in extremo, Cic. Or. 64, 215. —

B. First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble (cf.: princeps, primores): evocat ad se Massiliensium quindecim primos, Caes. B. C. 1, 35: sui municipii facile primus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15: homo, id. Verr. 2, 4, 17, 37: primis urbis placuisse, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 23: juvenum primi, Verg. A. 9, 785: est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt Nec sunt, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17: quia sum apud te primus, I am the first in your favor, id. ib. 1, 2, 10: primus humani generis, Sil. 17, 255: urbem Italiae primam, Petr. 116: praedium, Cato, R. R. 1: suavia prima habere, to give the first place to, think the most of, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 9: otium atque divitiae, quae prima mortales putant, Sall. C. 36, 4: cura, a chief part, Plin. 5, 25, 21, 88.—Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense: peccatores, quorum primus ego sum, Vulg. 1 Tim. 1, 15: primas partes, or primas agere, to play the first part, to occupy the first rank, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27: primas in causis agebat Hortensius, Cic. Brut. 90, 308; 47: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing: actioni primas dedisse Demosthenes dicitur, cum rogaretur, quid in dicendo esset primum: huic secundas, huic tertias, Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part: amoris erga me tibi primas defero, i. e. I assign to you the first rank among those who love me, id. Att. 1, 17, 5: primas concedere, to yield the first place: si Allienus tibi primas in dicendo partes concesserit, id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49: primas tenere, to play the first part, be the best, id. Brut. 95, 327: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly: homo domi suae cum primis locuples, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, 69: in primis lautus eques, Nep. Att. 13, 1: oppidum in primis Siciliae clarum, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, 86: homo in primis improbissimus, id. ib. 2, 3, 27, 68: vir magnus in primis, id. N. D. 1, 43, 120: in primis hoc a se animadversum esse dicebat, id. de Or. 3, 5, 17: in primis nobis sermo de te fuit, id. Att. 5, 1, 3: in primis ... dein, first, in the first place, Sall. J. 26, 3. —Hence, adv., primo and primum; also, ante- and post-class. and very rare, prime and primiter (the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 920 sq.).

A. prīmō, at first, at the beginning, first, firstly.

1. In gen.: aedes primo ruere rebamur, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 42: neque credebam primo mihimet Sosiae, id. ib. 2, 1, 50; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, 26: primo non accredidit, Nep. Dat. 3, 4: Themistocles solus primo profectus est, id. Them. 6, 5: contemptus est primo a tyrannis, id. Thras. 2, 2; id. Ham. 2, 2.—

2. With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc: primo Stoicorum more agamus, deinde nostro instituto vagabimur, Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13: primo pecuniae, dein imperii cupido crevit, Sall. C. 10, 3: primo ... deinde ... tum ... tum, Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50: primo ... deinde, Liv. 1, 27; Curt. 3, 12, 6; 4, 16, 21; 9, 10, 11: primo abstinentiā utendum: deinde danda, etc., Cels. 5, 26, 34: primo ... inde, ... hinc, Liv. 30, 11, 6: haec primo paulatim crescere: post, etc., Sall. C. 10, 6: dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente, Caes. B. G. 7, 15: primo ... postea ... postremo, etc., Liv. 26, 39: primo ... mox, id. 1, 50: primo ... mox deinde, Just. 1, 3: primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc., Sall. J. 111, 2: neque illi credebam primo, nunc vero palam est, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 91.—

3. (Mostly post-Aug. for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo: primo ... iterum, Liv. 2, 51: primo ... rursus, Suet. Aug. 17: primo ... secundo, Phaedr. 4, 10, 16.—

B. prīmum, at first, first, in the first place, in the beginning (class.).

1. In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum: Caesar primum suo, deinde omnium e conspectu remotis equis, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: primum ... deinde ... deinde, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58, 143: primum ... deinde ... tum ... postremo, id. N. D. 2, 1, 3: primum ... deinde ... praeterea ... postremo, id. Div. 2, 56, 116: primum ... tum ... deinde ... post ... tum ... deinde ...., id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Font. 14, 31; cf.: primum ... secundo loco ... deinde ... tum, id. Leg. 1, 13, 35; id. Inv. 2, 27, 79; Curt. 3, 6, 16; 8, 10, 9; Liv. 1, 28; Nep. Them. 2, 3; id. Epam. 1, 3: primum ... subinde, Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 15: primum ... mox, id. ib. 2, 2, 93.—

2. Without other adverbs.

(a). In gen.: quaerenda pecunia primum est, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 53: te Quicumque primum Produxit, id. C. 2, 13, 2; id. S. 2, 3, 41.—

(b). Strengthened with omnium, first of all, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 13: primum omnium ego ipse vigilo, Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19.—

3. With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.

(a). Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as: ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae, etc., Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1: ubi primum potuit, istum reliquit, id. Verr. 2, 2, 20, 48: simul ac primum niti possunt, etc., id. N. D. 2, 48, 124: tum affuerat, cum primum dati sunt judices, id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, 57.—

(b). Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (cf.: nunc demum, now at last): post illa nunc primum audio, Quid illo sit factum, Ter. And. 5, 4, 33.—

(g). With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.): primum dum, si falso insimulas, etc. Iterum si id verum est, etc., Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 26: omnium primumdum haed aedes jam face occlusae sicut, id. Most. 2, 1, 53; 1, 2, 39; id. Capt. 1, 2, 57: primum dum omnium male dictitatur tibi vulgo in sermonibus, id. Trin. 1, 2, 61.—

(d). With adv. or other expression of time, for the first time: hodie primum ire in ganeum, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 37: quo die primum convocati su mus, Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30.—

C. prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 188 P.; cf. Prisc. p. 603 P.—

D. prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and post-class.): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ap. Non. 154, 26; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Lat. Scop. in Egitto.