olim Adverb

Translations

  1. formerly
  2. once
  3. once upon a time
  4. in the future
  5. some day (future)

Example Sentences

Publius Ovidius Naso

fissus erat tenui rima, quam duxerat olim, cum fieret, paries domui communis utrique.

~ Ovid, Metamorphoses IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero

praesertim cum omne olim studium atque omne ingenium contulerit Archias ad populi Romani gloriam laudemque celebrandam?

~ Cicero, Pro Archia
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima: sed tamen amoto quaeramus seria ludo: ille gra

~ Horace, Sermonum Liber I
L. Annaeus Seneca

Quid te ipse decipis et hoc nunc primum quod olim patiebaris intellegis?

~ Seneca, Epistulae Morales, Liber I

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