Translation
at once; immediately
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Examples
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He came at once.
, discessit.
As soon as he heard this, he left.
cucurrerunt.
The soldiers ran to arms immediately.
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Answer me at once.
cenam .
He went to sleep straight after dinner.
is built on , "to stand", and originally meant "standing where you are", on the spot. That is still the force of it: not soon, but now, with no gap. Its neighbour is "soon, shortly" and does allow a gap, so the two are not interchangeable.
With or following, it turns into a conjunction: , "the moment he heard this". Worth knowing that this word ranks far higher in our corpus than it would in Caesar alone, because the Vulgate leans on it constantly, especially Mark's gospel, which uses to render the Greek narrative tic "euthys". In classical prose it is common but not relentless.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 7: statim, aliquis, praeter and 7 more words.