Translation
then; at that time
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Examples
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Then the king himself came.
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What then?
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Only then did I understand.
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Listen first, then speak.
laborabat.
He worked both in the city and, above all, in the country.
fixes a point in past or narrative time, "then, at that moment", and in a sequence of actions it slides into "next". It is the past-facing counterpart of . Latin also uses it in the correlative pair ... , which means "both ... and especially" and weights the second item. covers much the same ground and becomes commoner in later Latin; in classical prose is the default. Adverb, so no case.
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 7: tum, tu, pro and 10 more words.