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§554. Dum, Dōnec, and Quoad

Dōnec and quoad, until, with the Perfect Indicative denote an actual fact in past time:—

  • dōnec rediit silentium fuit (Liv. 23.31.9), there was silence until he returned.
  • ūsque eō timuī dōnec ad rêiciendōs iūdicēs vēnimus (Verr. 2.1.17), I was anxious until the moment when we came to challenge the jurors.
  • Rōmae fuērunt quoad L. Metellus in prōvinciam profectus est (id. 2.62), they remained at Rome until Lucius Metellus set out for the province.

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.