adverb
totiēns
totiēns (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparableso often, so many times
Magna dīs inmortālibus habenda est atque huic ipsī Iovī Statōrī, antīquissimō cūstōdī huius urbis, grātia, quod hanc tam taetram, tam horribilem tamque īnfēstam reī pūblicae pestem totiēns iam effūgimus.
Great thanks must be given to the immortal gods, and to this very [one] — Jupiter Stator, the most ancient guardian of this city — because we have, so many times now, escaped this plague: so foul, so horrible, and so hostile to the Republic. (The Roman Senate had convened in the Temple of Jupiter Stator and, at this moment in the speech, Cicero may have pointed to a statue of the god.)63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.11 - not comparableas often, as many times (as)
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
so many times
totiēns — in De Bello Gallico II
tŏtĭens or tŏtĭes, adv. num. tot,
I. so often, so many times, as often, as many times.
A. With a corresp. quotiens:
totiens, quotiens praescribitur, Paeanem citare, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251: neque quotiens verbum aliquod est scribendum nobis, totiens, etc., id. ib. 2, 30, 130: illud soleo mirari, non me totiens accipere tuas litteras, quotiens a Quinto mihi fratre afferantur, Cic. Fam. 7, 7, 1: quotienscumque dico, totiens mihi videor, etc., id. Clu. 18, 51.—B. With quot:
moverat eum subeunda dimicatio totiens, quot conjurati superessent, Liv. 2, 13, 2.— C. Absol.:
tot praetores in Siciliā fuerunt: totiens apud majores nostros Siculi senatum adierunt, totiens hac memoriā, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 60, § 146: velim mihi ignoscas, quod ad te scribo tam multa totiens, id. Att. 7, 12, 3: qui pro republicā seditiosum civem totiens compescuisset, Quint. 11, 1, 40: quos ego sim totiens jam dedignata maritos, Verg. A. 4, 536: ter die claro totiensque gratā Nocte, Hor. C. S. 23; Sen. Q. N. 6, 1, 2; Tac. A. 12, 60.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
totiēns (totiēs) adv. num.
tot, so often, so many times, as often, the same number of times : tot praetores in Siciliā fuerunt; totiens Siculi senatum adierunt: Ter die claro totiensque gratā Nocte, H.: totiens, quotiens praescribitur, Paeanem citare: moverat eum subeunda dimicatio totiens, quot coniurati superessent, L.
Origins
From tot + -iēns.