totiens - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
totiēns (not comparable)
- so often, so many times
- Synonym: aliquotiēns
29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.581–582:
- “‘Occiderit ferrō Priamus? Troiā ārserit ignī?
Dardanium totiēns sūdārit sanguine lītus?’”- “‘[After] Priam has fallen by the sword? With Troy consumed by fire? The Dardan shore having sweated blood so many times?’”
(An expression of surprise or indignation posed as questions using three future perfect verbs: occiderit, arserit, sudarit. Here, “totiens” refers to the bloodshed throughout the Trojan War.)
- “‘[After] Priam has fallen by the sword? With Troy consumed by fire? The Dardan shore having sweated blood so many times?’”
- “‘Occiderit ferrō Priamus? Troiā ārserit ignī?
- (comparatively, with quotiēns) as often, as many times (as)
- “totiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “totiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- totiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.