Abhinc

Latin-English

abhinc. (abˈink) adv. or prep. w/ acc. or abl.

As adv. From this point forward; from here on, from now on.
As prep. Ago.

[ab + hinc.]

Constructions

Noun constructions

abhinc annis — ‘years ago,’ Cic. [αʹ], [ζʹ]
abhinc annos — ‘years ago,’ Cic. [βʹ], [γʹ], [δʹ], [εʹ], [στʹ]; Hor. [ηʹ]; Plaut. [ιαʹ], [ιβʹ], [ιδʹ]
abhinc triennium — ‘three years ago,’ Cic. [ζ²]; Plaut. [ιγʹ]; Ter. [ιεʹ]

Loci

Cicero

αʹ n. Cicero, Ad Atticum 12.17:

pro Cornificio me abhinc amplius annis XX V spopondisse dicit Flavius

Flavius says I vouched for Cornificius more than twenty-five years ago.

βʹ n. Cicero, De Divinatione 2.57:

Demosthenes quidem, qui abhinc annos prope trecentos fuit, iam tum φιλιππίζειν Pythiam dicebat, id est quasi cum Philippo facere.

Even Demosthenes, who lived almost three hundred years ago, was already saying at the time that the Pythia "Philippized"—that is, sided with Philip.

γʹ n. Cicero, In Verrem Secunda 1.12:

Quaestor Cn. Papirio consuli fuisti abhinc annos quattuordecim.

You were quaestor for the consul Gnaeus Papirius fourteen years ago.

δʹ n. Cicero, In Verrem Secunda 2.9:

Sosippus et Philocrates fratres sunt Agyrinenses. Horum pater abhinc duo et XX annos est mortuus

Sosippus and Philocrates are brothers, from Agyrium. The father of these men died twenty-two years ago.

δ² Cicero, In Verrem Secunda 2.52:

Herodotus cum Roma revertitur, diebus, ut ipse putabat, XV ante comitia, offendit eum mensem qui consequitur mensem comitialem, comitiis iam abhinc XXX diebus factis.

When Herodotus returns from Rome, on what he was thinking was fifteen days before the comitia, he 's shocked to find it 's the month which comes after their month of assembly, the comitia already having been held thirty days before.

εʹ n. Cicero, Philippica 2.46:

Etenim, si abhinc annos prope viginti hoc ipso in templo negavi posse mortem immaturam esse consulari, quanto verius non negabo seni!

Indeed, if nearly twenty years ago—in this very temple—I said there could be no such thing as death being premature for someone who has been consul, how much more truly will I say it for an old man!

στʹ n. Cicero, Pro Balbo 6.15:

si Pompeius abhinc annos quingentos fuisset

If Pompey had lived five hundred years ago...

ζʹ⁻² n. n. Cicero, Pro Roscio Comoedo 13.37:

—Quo tempore?
—Abhinc annis xv.
—Defensio mea quae est?
—Roscium pro sua parte cum Flavio transegisse.
—Repromittis tu abhinc triennium Roscio.

“How long ago?”
“Fifteen years ago.”
“What is my defense?”
“That Roscius had arranged with Flavius for his portion.”
“You in turn made a promise to Roscius three years ago.”

Classical

ηʹ n. Horace, Epistulae 2.1:

The author who passed away a hundred years ago—should he be placed among the perfect and the ancient, or among the cheap and the modern? Let some limit bar any debate.

θʹ Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.955:

Wipe away your tears from here on, you clown, and hold back your complaints.

Roman

ιʹ Plautus, Bacchides 3.2:

nam ut in Ephesum hinc abii — hoc factum st ferme abhinc biennium —
ex Epheso huc ad Pistoclerum meum sodalem litteras
misi, amicam ut mi inveniret Bacchidem. —————

Because when I left this place for Ephesus — this happened almost two years ago — I sent my friend Pistoclerus a letter here from Ephesus to have him find my girlfriend Bacchis for me.

ιαʹ n. Plautus, Casina 39-42:

This servant—now, this happened sixteen years ago, when he managed to see a little girl being abandoned, at first light—immediately went up to the woman who was abandoning her and begged her to give him the child.

ιβʹ n. Plautus, Mostellaria 492-495:

“He said the man told him he died by—”
“In the dream?”
“Yes, it 's a wonder that a man who was murdered sixty years ago did n't announce it to someone who was awake... You can be ridiculously stupid sometimes.”

ιγʹ n. Plautus, Stichus 137–138:

Quid? illos exspectatis, qui abhinc iam abierunt triennium?
quin vos capitis condicionem ex pessuma primariam?

What? Are you still waiting for those men, who left three years ago now? Why do n't you take a marriage which is first-rate over this one, which is much worse?

ιδʹ n. Plautus, Truculentus 340–341:

Me nemo magis respiciet, ubi iste huc venerit, quam si abhinc* ducentos annos fuerim mortuos.

When he gets here nobody will be paying me any more attention than if I had been dead for two hundred years.

ιεʹ n. Terence, Andria 1.1:

Meanwhile, three years ago, a certain woman moved into the neighborhood from Andros.

ιστʹ Terence, Hecyra 5.3:

Because I remember, about ten months ago, that he ran up to me at my house early one night, out of breath, all alone, full of wine, with this ring.

ιζʹ Terence, Phormio 1017-1018:

Drunk, nearly fifteen years ago, he forced himself on the girl from whom this one was born—and he never touched her again.

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