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nusquam , adv. ne-usquam,
I.nowhere, in no place.
I. Lit.: “nusquam invenio Naucratem,” Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 6: “fratrem nusquam invenio gentium,” Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 1; Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 73: “sive est illa scripta uspiam, sive nusquam,” Cic. Leg. 1, 15, 42; Liv. 1, 38; Verg. A. 4, 373: “nolite arbitrari me, cum a vobis discessero, nusquam aut nullum fore,” Cic. Sen. 22, 79 et saep.: “nusquam non,” everywhere, Plin. 24, 1, 1, § 1: nusquam alibi, nowhere else, Cic. Ac. prooem. 2, 32, 103; Liv. 39, 38, 1; 43, 9, 4: “nusquam quidquam,” nothing whatever, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 41.—
II. Transf.
A. On no occasion, nowhere, in nothing: “nusquam equidem quicquam deliqui,” Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 30: “praestabo sumptum nusquam melius poni posse,” Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2.—
B. With verbs of motion, no whither, to no place, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 43; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 50: “nusquam abeo,” id. Ad. 2, 2, 38; Auct. Her. 2, 2, 3.—
2. To or for nothing: “ut ad id omnia referri oporteat, ipsum autem nusquam,” Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 29: “plebem nusquam alio natam, quam ad serviendum,” Liv. 7, 18; so, “nusquam alio,” id. 4, 54, 7.—
C. Nusquam esse, not to exist, not to be (mostly poet. and in postclass. prose), Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 62: “ergo nunc Dama sodalis Nusquam est,” Hor. S. 2, 5, 101; Dig. 47, 2, 38; Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 11.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (19):
    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 3.1.2
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 2.5
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 4.373
    • Horace, Satires, 2.5.101
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 2.1
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 4.1
    • Plautus, Asinaria, 3.3
    • Plautus, Menaechmi, 5.2
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 4.4
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 24.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 39, 38
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 54.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 43, 9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 18
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 38
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 1.15
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 1.9
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 22
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.6
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