Abhinc annos fuisse

Latin Construction

abhinc annos fuisse.

1. ‘To have been or lived [a number of] years ago.’

Constructions

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Loci

Cicero

• αʹ 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 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, Pro Balbo 6.15:

si Pompeius abhinc annos quingentos fuisset

If Pompey had lived five hundred years ago...

Roman

• δʹ 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.