Quatenus, pen. cor. Aduerb. How much: bowe farre: to what end: so farre as: as much as Cicero, Id primum videamus, quatenus amor in amicitia progredi debeat. Howe farre or to what point loue should ertend it self, &c.Filium docuit quatenus esset quodque curandum. Ci. How much euerie thing was to be seene vnto.In omnibus rebus videndum est quatenus. Ci. In all things a man must consider howe to keepe a measure and goe no further than he shoulde do.Quatenus haberem? Cic.How long should I haue it?Quatenus intelligit, nihil putat prætermissum.Cic.So fat as he vnderstandeth.Quatenus de religione dicebat. Bibulo assensum est. Cice. They condescended to Bibulus so farre as be spake of the religion of Cybilles verses.Quatenus tutò possent, Italiam spectatum irent. Li. So far as they might without daunger.Quatenus quicquid se attingat, ad seque pertineat, perspicere cœpit.Cic.Accipio ex ea parte quatenus aut negligentia, aut improbirate corum, qui epistolas accipiant, fieri scribis, ne ad nos perferantur. Ci. I admit it so farre as you write, that, &c. Quatenus, Coniunctio, Plin. iun. Quatenus nobis denegatur diu viuere, relinquamus aliquid quo nos vixisse testemur. For so muche as it is not graunted vs toliue long, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
quā-tĕnus (quātĭnus, quātĕnos; cf. Fest. p. 258 fin. Müll.), adv.I.Lit. (only in indirect questions; cf. quī), until where, how far: in omnibus rebus videndum est, quatenus, Cic. Or. 22, 73: quatenus progredi debeat, id. Lael. 11, 36.— II.Transf.A.How far, to what extent: quatenus sint ridicula tractanda oratori, perquam diligenter videndum est, Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 237: quatenus quaque fini dari venia amicitiae debeat, Gell. 1, 3, 16.—Ellipt.: nulla cognitio finium, ut ullā in re statuere possimus, quatenus, Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 92; id. Or. 12, 72: est enim quatenus amicitiae dari venia possit. id. Lael. 17, 61.—B.Where: petentibus Saguntinis, ut quatenus tuto possent, Italiam spectatum irent, Liv. 28, 39: quatenus videtur inhabitari, Col. 9, 8, 11.—C. Of time, how long: quibus auspiciis istos fasces acciperem? quatenus haberem? cui traderem?Cic. Phil. 14, 5, 14.—D. Causal, seeing that, since, as (cf.: quoniam, quando): clarus postgenitis; quatenus, heu nefas! Virtutem incolumem odimus, Hor. C. 3, 24, 30; Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 21: nobis denegatur diu vivere, relinquamus aliquid, quo nos vixisse testemur, Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 14: quatenus innocentiae meae nusquam locus est, Tac. A. 3, 16 Nipperd. ad loc. — E.How (eccl. Lat.), Lact. 4, 27 init.; 4, 30, 3.—F.Sothat, in order that, that (post-class.), Dig. 4, 2, 14; Cassiod. H. Tr. 5, 17.
