interdum

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

inter-dum, adv.,

I sometimes , occasionally , now and then , = nonnumquam: interdum fio Juppiter, quando lubet, Plaut. Am. 3, 1, 4: interdum cursus est in oratione incitatior, interdum moderata ingressio, Cic. Or. 59: modo-interdum, Suet. Calig. 43: modo-modo-interdum, id. Ner. 49.—

II I. q. per aliquod tempus, for some time (post-Aug.): acribus custodiis domum et vias saepserat Livia; laetique interdum nuntii vulgabantur, donec, Tac. A. 1, 5: occulere interdum et terrae mandare parabat, Sil. 6, 30; id. 4, 490.—

III I. q. interea, interim, meanwhile , in the meantime (post-class.): interdum cognito strepitu procurrit cubiculo, Ap. Met. 9, 20, 14; 4, 14, 21; Dig. 4, 8, 16, § 1; Cod. Th. 4, 3, 1.

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