jam dudum

jam-dūdum (or separat. jam dū-dum ), adv., long since, long before, a long time ago.

I.

In gen.:

dixi ego jamdudum tibi,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 78:

jamdudum audivi,

id. Merc. 5, 2, 112:

jamdudum, si des, porrexi manum,

id. Ps. 4, 7, 49:

jamdudum est intus,

id. As. 3, 3, 151; id. Am. 2, 1, 71:

ego jamdudum hic adsum,

Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 5:

quem jamdudum et Cotta et Sulpicius exspectat,

Cic. de Or. 2, 7, 26:

quod te jamdudum hortor,

id. Cat. 1, 5, 12; id. Clu. 23, 63; Ov. H. 16, 13: jamdudum tibi non imprudens adversabar, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 65:

jamdudum flebam,

I had been a long time weeping, Ov. M. 3, 656:

jamdudum vincula pugnat exuere,

id. ib. 7, 772; cf. id. ib. 8, 867.—Corresp. with cum:

jamdudum factum'st, quom abisti domo,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 3; so id. As. 5, 2, 40.—In tmesi:

quia jam non dudum ante lucem ad Veneris aedem venimus,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 105.—

II.

In partic., i. q. jam modo, this very instant, without delay, forthwith, immediately, directly ( poet. ):

jamdudum sumite poenas,

Verg. A. 2, 103:

ardua jamdudum demittite cornua,

Ov. M. 11, 482:

jamdudum dominae more venire jube,

id. H. 20, 80; so id. M. 2, 843; 4, 405; 11, 483;

13, 457: candida jamdudum cingantur colla lacertis (i. q. statim),

instantly, id. A. A. 2, 457:

in medios ire furores, jamdudum moriture, paras?

Luc. 2, 524:

jamdudum incumbere aratris, Dum, sicca tellure, licet,

Verg. G. 1, 213.