intĕr-ĕā, adv.
I Meanwhile , in the meantime , in the interim (class.): saepe interea mihi senex narrabat, Ter. Phorm. 365: interea dies advenit, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 15, § 37: cum interea, Ter. Hec. 421; Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 15: haec dum Romae geruntur, Quintius interea de agro detruditur, id. Quint. 6.— With loci : plus triginta natus annis sum, cum interea loci Numquam quicquam facinus feci pejus quam hodie, Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 1; id. Ps. 1, 3, 32; Ter. Eun. 255; id. Heaut. 257; Pac. ap. Non. 488, 14 (Trag. Rel. p. 71 Rib.).— *
B (For interdum.) Sometimes , Sil. 7, 395.—
II Transf., like Engl. meanwhile (approaching the sense of), nevertheless , however (but in class. prose always retaining a reference to time; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 611 sq.), Cic. Fam. 5, 12 fin. ; Verg. G. 1, 83: cum interea, Cic. Clu. 30, 82; cf.: tamen interea, Cat. 101, 7.