The corpus record — Latin

quatenus

quatenus · adv

until where

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
De Corona 2 · 4.11/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 2 · 3.63/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 18 · 2.55/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 6 · 2.28/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 2 · 2.14/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k

Densest 12 of 68 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quā-tĕnus — Lewis & Short

quā-tĕnus (quātĭnus, quātĕnos; cf. adv.

Fest. p. 258 fin. Müll.),

I Lit. (only in indirect questions; cf. quī), until where, how far: in omnibus rebus videndum est, quatenus, Cic. Or. 22, 73: quatenus progredi debeat, id. Lael. 11, 36.—

II Transf.

A How far, to what extent: quatenus sint ridicula tractanda oratori, perquam diligenter videndum est, Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 237: quatenus quaque fini dari venia amicitiae debeat, Gell. 1, 3, 16.—Ellipt.: nulla cognitio finium, ut ullā in re statuere possimus, quatenus, Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 92; id. Or. 12, 72: est enim quatenus amicitiae dari venia possit. id. Lael. 17, 61.—

B Where: petentibus Saguntinis, ut quatenus tuto possent, Italiam spectatum irent, Liv. 28, 39: quatenus videtur inhabitari, Col. 9, 8, 11.—

C Of time, how long: quibus auspiciis istos fasces acciperem? quatenus haberem? cui traderem? Cic. Phil. 14, 5, 14.—

D Causal, seeing that, since, as (cf.: quoniam, quando): clarus postgenitis; quatenus, heu nefas! Virtutem incolumem odimus, Hor. C. 3, 24, 30; Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 21: nobis denegatur diu vivere, relinquamus aliquid, quo nos vixisse testemur, Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 14: quatenus innocentiae meae nusquam locus est, Tac. A. 3, 16 Nipperd. ad loc. —

E How (eccl. Lat.), Lact. 4, 27 init.; 4, 30, 3.—

F So that, in order that, that (post-class.), Dig. 4, 2, 14; Cassiod. H. Tr. 5, 17.

In the wild

quatenus Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.2.2
quatenus Suetonius, Divus Augustus 66.2
quatenus Suetonius, Divus Titus 8.3.p2
quatenus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.1
quatenus Celsus, De Medicina 5.28.p13
quatenus Cicero, Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 12

6 of 154 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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