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quotiens

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Etymology

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    From quot + -iēns.

    Pronunciation

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    Adverb

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    quotiēns (not comparable)

    1. how often?, how many times
      • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.15:
        Ac iam illa omittō — neque enim sunt aut obscūra aut nōn multa commissa posteā: quotiēns tū mē dēsignātum, quotiēns cōnsulem interficere cōnātus es!
        And now I omit those [other crimes] — and not because they are either hidden, or not as many were committed afterward: how many times [you tried to kill] me as consul-elect, how often you tried to kill me as consul!
    2. (comparatively, with totiēns) as often, as often as, as many times as, whenever
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.351–353:
        “Mē patris Anchīsae, quotiēns ūmentibus umbrīs
        nox operit terrās, quotiēns astra ignea surgunt,
        admonet in somnīs et turbida terret imāgō.”
        “[I think] of my father Anchises, whenever dank shades of night shroud the lands, as often as fiery stars arise, he admonishes me in my dreams, and his troubled phantom frightens me.”

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    References

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    • quotiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • quotiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • quotiens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.