Abhinc annos

Latin Construction

abhinc annos.

1. ‘[A number of] years ago.’

Constructions

Verb constructions

• abhinc annos esse — Cic. [αʹ], [βʹ], [εʹ]; Plaut. [θʹ]

Loci

Cicero

• αʹ v. 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.

• βʹ v. 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.

• γʹ 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.

• δʹ 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!

• εʹ v. Cicero, Pro Balbo 6.15:

si Pompeius abhinc annos quingentos fuisset

If Pompey had lived five hundred years ago...

Classical

• στʹ Horace, Epistulae 2.1:

Roman

• ζʹ Plautus, Casina 39-42:

• ηʹ Plautus, Mostellaria 492-495:

• θʹ v. 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.