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(adverb) : mŏdŏ (scanned mŏdō, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 23; Lucr. 2, 11, 35; Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 107; v. Corss. Ausspr. 2, p. 480; Lachm. ad Lucr. 2, p. 140), orig. abl. of modus, q. v..
* Qs., by measure, expressing, like tantum, a restriction of the idea, only, merely, but.
* In gen.
* With specifications of time, like Gr. ἄρτι (reaching to the full measure of the time, fully).
* In partic., in restrictive clauses, for ullo or aliquo modo, in any way or degree, at all, only, even: servus est nemo, qui modo tolerabili conditione sit servitutis, qui, etc.,who is in any tolerable condition,Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 16; cf.: quamquam quis ignorat, qui modo umquam mediocriter res istas scire curavit, quin, etc.,id. Fl. 27, 64; and: quis est omnium, qui modo cum Musis habeat aliquod commercium, qui? etc.,id. Tusc. 5, 23, 66: nemo aliter philosophus sensit, in quo modo esset auctoritas,id. Div. 1, 39, 86; cf.: servitus, honorifica modo, Brut. ap. Cic. ad Brut. 1, 17, 4: tum quam plurimis modo dignis, se utilem praebent,be they but worthy,Cic. Off. 1, 26, 92: bonis viris ... faciendum est, modo pro facultatibus,id. ib. 2, 17, 58: decerne, modo recte,id. Rosc. Am. 48, 138: itaque veniam, quo vocas, modo adjutore te,id. Att. 16, 13, a, 1: atque utinam posset aliquā ratione hoc crimen quamvis falsa, modo humana atque usitata defendere,if only,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 224.
* Si modo, if only (freq.): tu si modo es Romae: vix enim puto, sin es, hoc vehementer animadvertas velim,Cic. Att. 5, 8, 2: tute scis (si modo meministi) me tibi tum dixisse, etc.,id. ib. 12, 18, 2: fortasse vici, si modo permansero,id. ib. 12, 44, 3.—Poet. with subj.: si modo sola queant saxa tenere fidem,Prop. 1, 18, 4.
* Poet. and in jurid. Latin, modo si, for dummodo, if only, provided that: persequar inferius, modo si licet ordine ferri,Ov. Tr. 2, 263: modo si ejus nomine opus fiat,Dig. 39, 1, 18; 26, 2, 28; 19, 2, 19, § 10.
* Modo non, like the Gr. μόνον οὐχί, all but, almost, nearly, = propemodum (ante- and post-class.): modo non montes auri pollicens,Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 17 Don.: favet Fabi gloriae, quae modo non suā contumeliā splendeat,Liv. 10, 24, 11: pictor equum venientem, modo non vivum, comprehenderat,Val. Max. 8, 11, ext. 7: modo non reclamante publico vigore,Amm. 14, 7, 1; 16, 12, 16; 21, 14, 1; 22, 6, 2 al.
* In colloq. lang. with imperatives, just, now, only: sequere hac modo,Plaut. Men. 4, 1, 4: sedete hic modo,id. Rud. 3, 3, 29: propera modo,id. Men. 1, 4, 32: vide modo,Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46: ignem scrutare modo, inquam,Hor. S. 2, 3, 276.—Indignantly: quin tu i modo,begone now,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 182; so, i modo,id. Stich. 3, 2, 23: tace modo,be still now,id. As. 5, 2, 19.—With tu or vos (poet. and post-class.): tu modo, dum licet, hunc fructum ne desere vitae,Prop. 2, 15, 49; Verg. G. 3, 73: tu modo posce deos veniam,id. A. 4, 50: vos modo, inquit, parcite,Phaedr. 2, 8, 8; Curt. 9, 6, 24; 9, 2, 25.
* In gen.
* Of the pressent time, just now, just (ante-class. and poet.): quid? ego modo huic frater factus, dum intro eo atque exeo?just now?Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 43: modo dolores, meatu, occipiunt,Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 2 (evidenter hic modo temporis praesentis adverbium est, Don.): advenis modo,id. Hec. 3, 5, 8 Don.: devoravi nomen imprudens modo,Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 63: jam modo nunc possum contentus vivere parvo,Tib. 1, 1, 25; cf.: peccare fuisset Ante satis, penitus modo nunc genus omne perosos Femineum,Verg. A. 9, 141.
* In partic.
* Of time just to come, immediately, directly, in a moment (rare, and perh. not in Cic.): domum modo ibo,Ter. And. 3, 4, 15; Liv. 26, 15: Artabanus tardari metu, modo cupidine vindictae inardescere,Tac. A. 6, 32; 4, 50.
* Modo ... modo, now ... now, at one moment ... at another, sometimes ... sometimes (class.): modo ait, modo negat,sometimes he says Yes, and sometimes No,Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 46: Cotta meus modo hoc, modo illud,Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47; id. Div. 2, 44, 93: modo his, modo illis ex partibus,id. N. D. 2, 19, 49: o Academiam volaticam et sui similem, modo huc, modo illuc!id. Att. 13, 25, 3: citus modo, modo tardus incessus,Sall. C. 15, 5: laetos modo, modo pavidos animadverteres,id. J. 60, 4: nebulonem modo, modo nugatorem appellat,Liv. 38, 56.—Instead of modo ... modo, we sometimes find: nunc ... modo: nunc quereretur eundem accusatorem ac judicem esse, modo vitam sibi eripi, etc.,Liv. 8, 32, 9.—Again, instead of the second modo (esp. in poets and in post-Aug. prose writers), we find: nunc aliquando, interdum, nonnumquam, saepe, rursus.—So, modo ... nunc,Ov. M. 13, 922; id. F. 4, 643; id. Tr. 1, 2, 27: modo ut reciperet imperium, nunc ut legatione fungeretur,Tac. H. 2, 51: modo ... aliquando,id. A. 1, 81; 6, 35; 11, 34; 16, 10; id. H. 2, 74: modo ... interdum,Sall. J. 42, 1; 55, 9; 62, 9 Kritz.; 74, 1; Hor. S. 1, 9, 9 et saep.: modo ... nonnumquam,Suet. Tib. 66; id. Claud. 15; id. Calig. 52: modo ... saepe,Hor. S. 1, 10, 11: modo ... modo ... saepe,Sall. J. 45, 2; Tac. H. 4, 84: modo ... rursus,Prop. 1, 3, 41.
* Modo ... tum (deinde, postea, etc.), at first ... then, at one time ... at another: sol modo accedens, tum autem recedens,Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 102: (Xenophon) facit Socratem disputantem ... et modo unum, tum autem plures deos,id. ib. 1, 12, 31: et modo mundum, tum mentem divinam esse putat,id. ib. 1, 13, 34; cf.: modo (Theophrastus) menti divinum tribuit principatum, modo caelo, tum autem signis sideribusque caelestibus,id. ib. 1, 13, 35: et forte in eo loco grandis ilex coaluerat inter saxa paulum modo prona, deinde flexa, etc.,Sall. J. 93, 4: modo ... paulo post,Val. Max. 7, 4, 5: modo ... modo ... postremum,Tac. H. 4, 46: quid agerent, modo timentes, vicissim contemnentes religiones,Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43.
* Qs., by measure, expressing, like tantum, a restriction of the idea, only, merely, but.
* In gen.
* With specifications of time, like Gr. ἄρτι (reaching to the full measure of the time, fully).
* In partic., in restrictive clauses, for ullo or aliquo modo, in any way or degree, at all, only, even: servus est nemo, qui modo tolerabili conditione sit servitutis, qui, etc.,who is in any tolerable condition,Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 16; cf.: quamquam quis ignorat, qui modo umquam mediocriter res istas scire curavit, quin, etc.,id. Fl. 27, 64; and: quis est omnium, qui modo cum Musis habeat aliquod commercium, qui? etc.,id. Tusc. 5, 23, 66: nemo aliter philosophus sensit, in quo modo esset auctoritas,id. Div. 1, 39, 86; cf.: servitus, honorifica modo, Brut. ap. Cic. ad Brut. 1, 17, 4: tum quam plurimis modo dignis, se utilem praebent,be they but worthy,Cic. Off. 1, 26, 92: bonis viris ... faciendum est, modo pro facultatibus,id. ib. 2, 17, 58: decerne, modo recte,id. Rosc. Am. 48, 138: itaque veniam, quo vocas, modo adjutore te,id. Att. 16, 13, a, 1: atque utinam posset aliquā ratione hoc crimen quamvis falsa, modo humana atque usitata defendere,if only,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 224.
* Si modo, if only (freq.): tu si modo es Romae: vix enim puto, sin es, hoc vehementer animadvertas velim,Cic. Att. 5, 8, 2: tute scis (si modo meministi) me tibi tum dixisse, etc.,id. ib. 12, 18, 2: fortasse vici, si modo permansero,id. ib. 12, 44, 3.—Poet. with subj.: si modo sola queant saxa tenere fidem,Prop. 1, 18, 4.
* Poet. and in jurid. Latin, modo si, for dummodo, if only, provided that: persequar inferius, modo si licet ordine ferri,Ov. Tr. 2, 263: modo si ejus nomine opus fiat,Dig. 39, 1, 18; 26, 2, 28; 19, 2, 19, § 10.
* Modo non, like the Gr. μόνον οὐχί, all but, almost, nearly, = propemodum (ante- and post-class.): modo non montes auri pollicens,Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 17 Don.: favet Fabi gloriae, quae modo non suā contumeliā splendeat,Liv. 10, 24, 11: pictor equum venientem, modo non vivum, comprehenderat,Val. Max. 8, 11, ext. 7: modo non reclamante publico vigore,Amm. 14, 7, 1; 16, 12, 16; 21, 14, 1; 22, 6, 2 al.
* In colloq. lang. with imperatives, just, now, only: sequere hac modo,Plaut. Men. 4, 1, 4: sedete hic modo,id. Rud. 3, 3, 29: propera modo,id. Men. 1, 4, 32: vide modo,Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46: ignem scrutare modo, inquam,Hor. S. 2, 3, 276.—Indignantly: quin tu i modo,begone now,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 182; so, i modo,id. Stich. 3, 2, 23: tace modo,be still now,id. As. 5, 2, 19.—With tu or vos (poet. and post-class.): tu modo, dum licet, hunc fructum ne desere vitae,Prop. 2, 15, 49; Verg. G. 3, 73: tu modo posce deos veniam,id. A. 4, 50: vos modo, inquit, parcite,Phaedr. 2, 8, 8; Curt. 9, 6, 24; 9, 2, 25.
* In gen.
* Of the pressent time, just now, just (ante-class. and poet.): quid? ego modo huic frater factus, dum intro eo atque exeo?just now?Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 43: modo dolores, meatu, occipiunt,Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 2 (evidenter hic modo temporis praesentis adverbium est, Don.): advenis modo,id. Hec. 3, 5, 8 Don.: devoravi nomen imprudens modo,Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 63: jam modo nunc possum contentus vivere parvo,Tib. 1, 1, 25; cf.: peccare fuisset Ante satis, penitus modo nunc genus omne perosos Femineum,Verg. A. 9, 141.
* In partic.
* Of time just to come, immediately, directly, in a moment (rare, and perh. not in Cic.): domum modo ibo,Ter. And. 3, 4, 15; Liv. 26, 15: Artabanus tardari metu, modo cupidine vindictae inardescere,Tac. A. 6, 32; 4, 50.
* Modo ... modo, now ... now, at one moment ... at another, sometimes ... sometimes (class.): modo ait, modo negat,sometimes he says Yes, and sometimes No,Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 46: Cotta meus modo hoc, modo illud,Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47; id. Div. 2, 44, 93: modo his, modo illis ex partibus,id. N. D. 2, 19, 49: o Academiam volaticam et sui similem, modo huc, modo illuc!id. Att. 13, 25, 3: citus modo, modo tardus incessus,Sall. C. 15, 5: laetos modo, modo pavidos animadverteres,id. J. 60, 4: nebulonem modo, modo nugatorem appellat,Liv. 38, 56.—Instead of modo ... modo, we sometimes find: nunc ... modo: nunc quereretur eundem accusatorem ac judicem esse, modo vitam sibi eripi, etc.,Liv. 8, 32, 9.—Again, instead of the second modo (esp. in poets and in post-Aug. prose writers), we find: nunc aliquando, interdum, nonnumquam, saepe, rursus.—So, modo ... nunc,Ov. M. 13, 922; id. F. 4, 643; id. Tr. 1, 2, 27: modo ut reciperet imperium, nunc ut legatione fungeretur,Tac. H. 2, 51: modo ... aliquando,id. A. 1, 81; 6, 35; 11, 34; 16, 10; id. H. 2, 74: modo ... interdum,Sall. J. 42, 1; 55, 9; 62, 9 Kritz.; 74, 1; Hor. S. 1, 9, 9 et saep.: modo ... nonnumquam,Suet. Tib. 66; id. Claud. 15; id. Calig. 52: modo ... saepe,Hor. S. 1, 10, 11: modo ... modo ... saepe,Sall. J. 45, 2; Tac. H. 4, 84: modo ... rursus,Prop. 1, 3, 41.
* Modo ... tum (deinde, postea, etc.), at first ... then, at one time ... at another: sol modo accedens, tum autem recedens,Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 102: (Xenophon) facit Socratem disputantem ... et modo unum, tum autem plures deos,id. ib. 1, 12, 31: et modo mundum, tum mentem divinam esse putat,id. ib. 1, 13, 34; cf.: modo (Theophrastus) menti divinum tribuit principatum, modo caelo, tum autem signis sideribusque caelestibus,id. ib. 1, 13, 35: et forte in eo loco grandis ilex coaluerat inter saxa paulum modo prona, deinde flexa, etc.,Sall. J. 93, 4: modo ... paulo post,Val. Max. 7, 4, 5: modo ... modo ... postremum,Tac. H. 4, 46: quid agerent, modo timentes, vicissim contemnentes religiones,Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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