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extemplo

extemplo, immediately, straightway, forthwith, without delay

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

extemplō: (adv.), immediately, forthwith, at once, directly, 6.210. (ex and tempus)
extemplō (original uncontracted form extempŭlo, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 15 (93); id. Cist. 1, 1, 98 (98); 2, 3, 30 (572); id. Bacch. 4, 9, 44 (968); id. Mil. 2, 5, 51 (461); id. Poen. 1, 1, 55 (183)), adv. [from ex and tempulum, dim. of templum, in a moment, an instant; hence, like ex tempore], immediately, straightway, forthwith, quickly, without delay (mostly ante-class. and post-Aug.; in Plaut. more than sixty times; only once in Cic.; not in Caes. or Quint.; syn.: repente, subito, statim, continuo).
  • I In gen.: verrunt extemplo placidum mare, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26 (Ann. v. 377 ed. Vahl.): extemplo me necato et filiam, id. in Varr. L. L. 7, § 13 Müll.; Trag. v. 234 ed. Vahl.): quin occidisti extemplo? Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 3 (841): erubescit: quid respondeat nescit: quid fingat extemplo non habet, * Cic. Rosc. Com. 3, 8; alii gerendum (bellum) extemplo, antequam, etc., Liv. 41, 1, 1: haec extemplo in invidiam, mox etiam in perniciem verterunt, id. 39, 48, 1; so with mox and postremo, id. 40, 48, 6: dixit et extemplo sensit, etc., Verg. A. 2, 376 et saep.—
  • II Esp.
    • A Corresp. to the temporal and conditional particles ubi, ut, cum, quando, postquam, si.—With ubi: eaque extemplo, ubi, etc., Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 80 (80); so id. Capt. 3, 4, 27 (559); Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 13. —With ut: utque impulit (Turnus) arma: Extemplo turbati animi, etc., Verg. A. 8, 3; so Plin. Pan. 55, 9.—With cum: cum ... extemplo, Curt. 4, 16, 8.—With quando, etc.: adambulabo ad ostium, ut, quando exeat, Extemplo, etc., Plaut. Bacch. 4, 5, 9 (769): postquam introii, extemplo ejus morbum cognovi miser, Ter. Hec. 373.—With si: si umquam ... extemplo, etc., Naev. ap. Gell. 2, 19, 6; so Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 52 (204); id. Rud. 2, 3, 74 (404); id. Truc. 1, 1, 24 (45) al.—
    • B In Plaut. repeatedly: quom (or quoniam) extemplo = ἐπεὶ τάχιστα, as soon as: aedes quom extemplo sunt paratae ... laudant fabrum, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 18 (101); cf. id. Merc. 2, 2, 24 (295); id. Bacch. 2, 3, 70 (304); id. Ps. 3, 2, 15 (804): quom extemplo ad forum advenero, omnes loquentur, etc., id. Capt. 4, 2, 6 (786); cf. id. Trin. 3, 2, 99 (725).—
  • II At once, i.e. at first = primum (very rare), Liv. 22, 12, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.; Stat. Ach. 2, 88.—See Hand, Turs. II. pp. 669- 674.

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