quadamtenus

quādantĕnus or quādamtĕnus (in tmesi, Hor.; v. infra), adv. [quidam-tenus].

I.

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.—

II.

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.