(adverb) : dĕindĕ, and abbrev. dein (cf. Prisc. p. 1008 P., and
* Exin, proin—in both forms ei is monosyl. in the class. poets; as dissyl.,Prud. Cath. 10, 100; id. Ditt. 1, 1), de-inde, thereafter, thereupon (for syn. cf.: dein, exinde, inde, deinceps, post, postea, porro).
* In place (rare), from there, from that place: via interest perangusta, deinde paulo latior patescit campus,Liv. 22, 4.
* Transf. in (local) succession, thereafter, next (cf. dehinc, no. I. B.): auxiliares Galli Germanique in fronte, post quos pedites sagittarii, dein quatuor legiones, exin totidem aliae legiones, etc.,next,Tac. A. 2, 16: juxta Hermanduros Narisci, ac deinde Marcomanni,id. G. 42: haec quidem duo binis pedibus incisim: dein membratim, etc.,Cic. Or. 63, 213; cf. id. N. D. 2, 42 fin.: Baliares locat ante signa ... dein graviorem armis peditem,Liv. 21, 55, 2.
* In time.
* Thereafter, afterwards, then (common in all periods and styles): hostes contra legiones suas instruunt. Deinde utrique imperatores in medium exeunt,Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 68: accepit conditionem, dein quaestum occipit,Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 52: complures ex iis occiderunt: deinde se in castra receperunt,Caes. B. G. 4, 35 fin.: dein Tubero, Nescio (inquit) Africane,Cic. Rep. 1, 10: incipe, Damoeta; tu deinde sequēre, Menalca. Alternis dicetis,Verg. E. 3, 58; unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus, atque ita porro Pugnabant armis,Hor. S. 1, 3, 101: in Aequis nihil deinde memorabile actum,Liv. 3, 3.
* In an enumeration or succession of facts or arguments, afterwards, next in order, then: ut a prima congressione maris et feminae, deinde a progenie et cognatione ordiar, etc.,Cic. Rep. 1, 24, 48: te ad coenas itare desisse moleste fero ... Deinde etiam vereor ... ne, etc.,id. Fam. 9, 24, 2; id. de Or. 2, 11, 45 sq. et saep.
* Of future time, hereafter, from this time forward (rare): tu velim cures ut sciam, quibus nos dare oporteat eas, quas ad te deinde litteras mittemus,Cic. ad Q. Frat. 3, 8, 2; cf. id. de Or. 2, 280; experiamini quidquid deinde fors tulerit,Curt. 5, 25, 17.
* Strengthened by cum, postquam, posteaquam, ubi, etc.: dein (deinde) cum,Cic. Rep. 1, 12, 18: deinde cum,as soon as,Liv. 3, 47; cf.: dein cum,Plin. 19, 8, 51, § 166: deinde (dein) postquam,Liv. 3, 66; 6, 13; 7, 37 et saep.: deinde posteaquam,Cels. 7 praef.: deinde (dein) ubi,Sall. J. 68, 69; id. C. 45 fin.; Liv. 7, 14.
* Esp. freq. following primum (primus), followed by postremo al.: quod in homine multo est evidentius, primum ex ea caritate, quae, etc., deinde, etc.,Cic. Lael. 8, 27; 18, 65; 20, 73; id. Rep. 1, 13; 1, 17 et passim; cf. deinde, several times repeated,Cic. Rosc. Am. 45; id. Inv. 1, 28, 43; id. Or. 54, 108 al.: primum with deinde eight times, and finally postremo,id. Inv. 2, 49, 145: deinde ... tum ... post, etc.,Cels. 2, 18; 3, 7 et saep.: deinde ... deinde ... postremo ...,Cic. Ac. 2, 16, 49: excellente tum Crasso et Antonio, deinde (next in the order of excellence, not of time) Philippo, post Julio, id. Brut. 88, 301: deinde ... tum ... postremo,Quint. 3, 9, 6 sq.: prima nobilitas Cilicio ... dein Lyciae Olympo, mox Centuripino, etc.,Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 31; so after optimus,Plin. 25, 11, 87, § 136; 37, 9, 38, § 119; after laudatissimus,id. 21, 18, 69, § 115; cf. id. 21, 21, 92, § 160: femur promovetur saepissime in interiorem: deinde in exteriorem: raro admodum in priorem aut posteriorem,Cels. 8, 20.
* So, in a climax, emphasizing the last of a series: suis artibus, fraude, deinde insidiis est prope circumventus,at length, in fine,Liv. 21, 34; id. 21, 41; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 238 -249.

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