simulatque Latin · revision 34299

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=la simul, la atque}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''simulatque''' (conjunction; also written ''simul atque'', ''simul ac'' or ''simulac'')^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|simul|atque|t1=at the same time|t2=and]], the adverb with the conjunction used together as a subordinating conjunction.^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest example, in the shorter form ''simul ac'', is from Lucilius: ''continuo, simul ac paulo vehementius aura inflarit'', “at once, as soon as the breeze blows a little harder”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) ''Simul atque'' appears in Cicero's speeches against Verres: ''simul atque e navi egressus est'', “as soon as he had come off the ship”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means as soon as, the moment that,^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) and is common in classical prose and verse: Cicero promises in his letters to write ''simul ac constituero'', “as soon as I have decided”, Caesar uses it in the ''Gallic War'', and Lucretius, Sallust, Nepos and Virgil have it too.^(OLD 2012) It can take the subjunctive in a subordinate clause.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius has ''simul ac''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''simul atque'' and ''simul ac'' in his speeches and letters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses ''simul atque''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses ''simul ac'' in the ''Aeneid''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # As soon as, the [[m|en|moment]] that.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The same sense is expressed by ''simul et'', found in Cicero's letters and in the ''De finibus'',^(OLD 2012) by ''simul ut'',^(OLD 2012) and by [[simul]] used alone as a conjunction, as in Catullus, Caesar, Horace and Livy.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

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