pĕr-inde, adv., a particle of comparison.
I in the same manner , just as , quite as , equally; in like manner , just so (class.; cf. proinde, with which it is frequently confounded in MSS. and edd.).
I In gen.: vivendi artem tantam tamque operosam et perinde fructuosam relinquere, Cic. Fin. 1, 21, 72: si perinde cetera processissent, Liv. 8, 17 fin. : non Pyrrhum, aut Antiochum populo Romano perinde metuendos fuisse, Tac. A. 2, 63: utilissimum munus, sed non perinde populare, Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 12: Mithridates corpore ingenti, perinde armatus, in a corresponding manner , accordingly , Sall. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 82: perinde laudaret castigaretque, Liv. 27, 8; 2, 17; Tac. A. 12, 41.—
II In partic., with the conjunctions atque ( ac ), ut , ac si , quasi , prout , quam , etc. (so most freq.)
α With atque ( ac ), just as , etc.: non perinde atque ego putaram, not exactly as I had expected , Cic. Att. 16, 5, 3: Africam ei perinde ac debellatum in Italiā foret provinciam destinabat, Liv. 28, 38, 10; 2, 58, 1; 32, 21, 3: perinde ac satisfacere et fraudata restituere vellent, just as if , etc., Caes. B. C. 3, 60.—
β With ut , utcumque , just as , Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 3; Cic. Brut. 50, 188: perinde sunt ut aguntur, id. de Or. 3, 56, 213; cf.: nec perinde ut maluisset plebes, etc., Liv. 7, 5, 7: perinde ut afficeretur, just as , according as , Suet. Claud. 15: perinde utcumque temperatus sit aër, ita, etc., in whatever way , Cic. Div. 2, 42, 89.—
γ With ac si , just as if , Cic. Rosc. Com. 5, 15: quod ego perinde tuebar ac si usus essem, id. Att. 13, 49, 1; Liv. 28, 38: perinde aestimans, ac si usus esset, Caes. B. C. 3, 2.—
δ With quasi , just as if , as if , etc.: perinde valebit, quasi armatissimi fuerint, Cic. Caecin. 21, 61: haec perinde loquor, quasi debueris aut potueris, etc., id. Quint. 26, 83 (but B. and K. read proinde ... quasi, id. Mil. 7, 17; id. Leg. 2, 19, 49).—
ε With prout , just according as , Plin. Pan. 20 fin. —
ζ With tamquam , just as much as if , just the same as if , Liv. 4, 3, 7.—
η With et or que , equally with , the same as (Tacitean): perinde odium pravis et honestis, Tac. A. 2, 2: perinde divina humanaque obtegens, id. ib. 1, 26; id. H. 5, 6.—
θ With ut , so that , to the extent that : habes munus a patre meā quidem sententiā magnum, sed perinde erit ut acceperis, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 121: Julianus nimius religionis Christianae insectator, perinde tamen, ut cruore abstineret, Eutr. 10, 16.—
ι With quam , so much as : nullā tamen re perinde motus est, quam responso mathematici, Suet. Dom. 15.—
κ With quam si , the same as if (postAug.): jusjurandum perinde aestimandum, quam si Jovem fefellisset, Tac. A. 1, 73.—
λ Perinde tamquam si, Gell. 15, 29.—
μ Haud perinde—quam, not as well ... as (post-Aug.), Tac. H. 2, 39.—
b With ellipsis of the second member of the comparison: possessione et usu haud perinde afficiuntur (sc. ac facile expectares), i. e. not so much as one would expect , not very much , Tac. G. 5; cf.: aurum et argentum non perinde ac reliqui mortales adpetunt, Just. 2, 2, 7: coxendice et femore et crure sinistro non perinde valebat (sc. ac dextro), Suet. Aug. 80: quare adventus ejus non perinde gratus fuit, id. Galb. 13; id. Tib. 52; Gell. 19, 14, 3; Petr. 83: Romanis haud perinde celebris, Tac. A. 2, 88 fin.