Semper

Latin-English

semper. (ˈsem.per) adv.

1. Always.

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 15.13:

Sed ita fato nescio quo contigisse arbitror, ut tibi ad me ornandum semper detur facultas, mihi ad te remunerandum nihil suppetat praeter voluntatem.

But I think it is somehow destined that, as the opportunity is always given to you to honor me, I get nothing to pay you back except the will to do so.

• βʹ Cicero, De Domo Sua 57.144:

Quocirca te, Capitoline, quem propter beneficia populus Romanus Optimum, propter vim Maximum nominavit, teque, Iuno Regina, et te, custos urbis, Minerva, quae semper adiutrix consiliorum meorum, testis laborum exstitisti, precor atque quaeso....

And so, Capitoline, I pray and beg of you, whom the Roman people have named Best because of your kindnesses and Greatest because of your power, and you, Queen Juno, and you, Minerva, guardian of the city, who have always stood forth as helper in my decisions and witness to my labors...