(adverb) : quādantĕnus or quādamtĕnus (in tmesi, Hor.;
* V.infra), quidam-tenus.
* To a certain point or limit, so far (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 32.
* Transf., to a certain extent, in some measure, somewhat: citreis odor acerrimus, quadantenus et cotoneis,Plin. 15, 28, 33, § 110: rubens,id. 24, 14, 76, § 124: quae fuerit origo gemmarum diximus quadantenus,id. 37, prooem. 1. § 2: ut noctes nostrae quadamtenus his historiae floscuculis aspergerentur,Gell. 17, 21, 1.