quādantĕnus or quādamtĕnus (in tmesi, Hor.;
I v. infra), adv. quidam-tenus.
I To a certain point or limit, so far (poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 32.—
II Transf., to a certain extent, in some measure, somewhat:
citreis odor acerrimus, quadantenus et cotoneis,Plin. 15, 28, 33, § 110:
rubens,id. 24, 14, 76, § 124:
quae fuerit origo gemmarum diximus quadantenus,id. 37, prooem. 1. §
2: ut noctes nostrae quadamtenus his historiae floscuculis aspergerentur,Gell. 17, 21, 1.