adverb
istūc
istūc (not comparable)
Classical[ɪsˈtuːk]Ecclesiastical[isˈtuk]
Meaning
- not comparableto or towards the place where you are, which you mention
Jam ego istūc revortar, mīles.
I'm about to return there, warrior.c. 195–189 BCE, Titus Maccius Plautus, Poenulus: - not comparableto the point in a discourse that you have reached or mentioned
Gnaeus quidem noster jam plānē quid cōgitet nesciō [..] quī quidem etiam istūc addūcī potuerit.
But what our friend Gnaeus is thinking I simply don't know any more [..] that he ended up allowing such a measure as this.59 BCE 29 April, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus:
istuc, adv. isto- (iste) ce,
I. thither, esp. in reference to the place where the party addressed is:
concedite istuc, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 56: istuc eo quantum potest, id. Merc. 4, 1, 25: jam istuc ego revortar, id. Poen. 3, 3, 1; Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 39: dabam operam, ut istuc veniam ante quam plane ex animo tuo effluo, Cic. Fam. 7, 14, 1: istuc mens animusque Fert, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 8: dum transferor istuc, Ov. H. 18, 205.—II. Transf., to that thing, to that subject in discourse, etc.:
hoc quod coepi primum enarrem: Post istuc veniam, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 33: scio: istuc ibam, id. Ad. 5, 3, 35.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
istūc adv.
istic, thither, to you, to where you are, in that direction: Concede istuc paululum, T.: istuc sunt delapsi: istuc mens animusque Fert, H.—To that thing, to that subject: istuc ibam, T.