... B. With respect to the temporal limit of both actions, i. q.
tamdiu quam or usque eo, as long as, while.
1. Lit. (with indic. when the duration of the action in the principal clause is alone implied, except in the oratio obliqua).—In praes.:
bene factum a vobis, dum vivitis, non abscedet, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1
fin.; so Cic. Lael. 4, 14; id. de Sen. 23, 86; id. Fin. 3, 2, 9; Caes.
B. G. 7, 50 fin. al.—In fut.: quid illos opinamini animi habuisse
atque habituros, dum vivent? Cato ap. Gell. 10, 13, 17; Plaut. Ps. 1,
3, 103; Cic. Rosc. Am. 32 fin.; id. Leg. 1, 1, 2; Verg. A. 1, 607 sq.
et saep.—
(b). Subj., often, when the clause with dum expresses a desired end,
or refers to an indefinite future: "non tibi venit in mentem, Si, dum
vivas, tibi bene facias, etc.", Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 76: "pars, dum
vires suppeterent, eruptionem censebant", Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 2: "ut
sua sponte, dum sine periculo liceret, excederet Gadibus", id. B. C.
2, 20, 3: "hoc unum esse tempus de pace agendi, dum sibi uterque
confideret ut pares ambo viderentur", id. ib. 3, 10, 7: "de quo (sc.
animo) dum disputarem, tuam mihi dari vellem, Cotta, eloquentiam",
Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 147 Bait. (v. Roby, Gram. 2, 284 sq.). —
b. With tamdiu, tantum, tantummodo, tantisper, usque; or opp. postea,
postquam, deinde, ubi, nunc, etc.—With tamdiu, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3; id.
Cat. 3, 7; id. de Sen. 12, 41; id. Tusc. 5, 33 fin.; id. Att. 9, 6, 5
al.—With tantum, Liv. 27, 42.—With tantummodo, Sall. J. 53, 3.—With
tantisper, Plaut. Truc. prol. 11; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 44; id. Heaut. 1, 1,
54.—With usque, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5: dum ... postea, id. Mur. 12, 26—dum ... postea quam, Caes. B. G. 7, 82, 1; Cic. Rosc. Am. 43
fin.—dum ... postquam, Sall. J. 53, 3; Liv. 21, 13; cf. Ter. And. 1,
1, 27—dum ... deinde, Cic. Att. 9, 6, 5; Liv. 27, 42, 13—dum ... sed
ubi, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 37; Caes. B. C. 1, 51, 5—dum ... nunc, Ter.
And. 1, 2, 17; Cic. Ac. 1, 4, 11.—For tamdiu ... dum, less freq. dum
... dum, as long as ... so long: "sic virgo dum intacta manet, dum
cara suis", Cat. 62, 45 and 56; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 16: "dum habeat, dum
amet", Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 23 (al. tum).—
c. In Plautus repeatedly with an emphatic quidem, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 57;
5, 2, 20; id. Bacch. 2, 2, 48; id. Merc. 2, 3, 53; id. Ps. 1, 5, 92.—
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