adverb
mox
mox (not comparable)
Classical[ˈmɔks]Ecclesiastical[ˈmɔks]
№ 469 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablesoon
Vīve! Mox senex eris
Live! Soon you will be old - not comparableafterwards, then
- not comparableas soon as (when followed by ubi, ut or quam)
Mox ut vōcem audiō, dēnūdātō gladiō lupus immolātur, ovis ab exitiō
As soon as a cry I hear, with my dagger drawn the wolf is killed, and freed from death, the sheep brought back (into safety).c. 1200, anonymous, Carmina Burana 157.7
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
soon
mox — in Seneca, ch. XVII
mox, adv. etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. mankshu, ready, soon,
I. soon, anon, directly, presently; mostly of the future (class.).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.:
mox ivero, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 91: mox ego huc revertor, Ter. And. 3, 2, 4: jussit mihi nuntiari, mox se venturum, Cic. Att. 10, 4, 8: mox tamen ardentīs accingar dicere pugnas Caesaris, Verg. G. 3, 46; Cic. Div. 1, 23, 47.—With quam: exspectant ... quam mox emittat currus, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 89 Vahl.); so, exspecto quam mox utatur, Cic. Rosc. Com. 1, 1: quid exspectas quam mox ego dicam, etc., id. ib. 15, 44: expectabant quam mox comitia edicerentur, Liv. 3, 37, 5; cf.: provisam quam mox vir meus redeat domum, Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 4 Brix ad loc.: quam mox coctum est prandium? how soon, Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 12: mox ubi, as soon as, Liv. 3, 52: mox ut, as soon as: mox ut caluere pugnā, Flor. 2, 4, 2: mox quam, as soon as (post-class.), Dig. 7, 4, 13.—B. In partic.
1. Soon afterwards, thereupon, afterwards, then, in the next place:
nam extemplo fusi, fugati: mox intra vallum compulsi: postremo exuuntur castris, Liv. 40, 48, 6: primum ... deinde ... mox ... post ... Tac. A. 11, 22; Quint. 10, 6, 3.—2. Of a longer time, afterwards, at a later period (post - Aug. for post, postea):
a quo mox principe Nero adoptatus est, Suet. Ner. 6; id. Aug. 47: ante hoc domūs pars videntur, mox reipublicae, Tac. G. 13: paulo mox, Plin. 21, 2, 3, § 5 al.: paucis mox horis, id. 18, 35, 78, § 341.—II. Transf., in the next place, then.
A. Of place and situation:
ultra eos Dochi, deinde Gymnetes, mox Anderae, Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 190; cf.: pars equitum ... mox prima legio, Tac. A. 1, 51. —B. Of value, esteem:
post amylum Chium maxime laudatur Creticum, mox Aegyptium, then, Plin. 18, 7, 17, § 77: tenuissimum camelis, mox equis, id. 11, 41, 96, § 237. Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
mox adv.
1 MAC-, soon, anon, directly, presently, by and by : mox ego huc revertor, T.: quae mox usu forent, S.: mox ut cum sicario disputo: Gn . quam mox inruimus? Thr . mane, T.: exspecto quam mox utatur: mox ubi, as soon as , L.— Soon afterwards, presently, thereupon, afterwards, then, in the next place : fugati, mox intra vallum compulsi, postremo, etc., L.: nunc . . . mox, etc.: primum . . . mox, etc., H.: ante hoc domūs pars videntur, mox rei p., Ta.: Tegmina mox . . . Mox umeri Exsistunt, now . . . again , O.
Origins
From Proto-Indo-European *moḱs, whence also Sanskrit मक्षू (makṣū, “fast; early”), Avestan 𐬨𐬊𐬱𐬎 (mošu, “soon, quickly”), Irish moch (“early”).
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