Centesimus Vicesimus Secundus: January 11, 2009: Quoad
Theme for this month: Words from prose
quoad (also quaad)
Definition: adv. how far?; how long?
conj. as far as; as long as; until
Sententia: Marcus et Cornelia questi sunt Cornelios in fossa diu haesos esse et saepius quaesiverunt quoad ibi morari expectarent.
Marcus and Cornelia complained that the Cornelii family had been stuck in the ditch for a long time, and rather often they asked how long they might expect to stay there.
Quoad occurs once each in Pro Archia and Pro Caelio by Cicero. In all the Latin texts available through the Perseus database, it occurs 182 times in prose and only 7 times in poetry. Also, I apologize for the Ecce Romani 1 reference if you did not use that textbook--the context is that the family had been traveling to Rome, and then their raeda got stuck in a ditch, and couldn't be extracted for a long time. I don't think that the text actually talked about them complaining, though.
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