Eatenus, pen. cor. Aduerb. Plaut.Vnto that: in that manner: til that time, vntil then: so farre: so long.Eatenus abeunt fabris.Plaut.So long they departed from.Eatenus amicum egit. Vale. Max. Thitherto, or to that time he shewed himselfe a friend.Eatenus quoad.Cic. Ferres eatenus quoad per se negligeret eas leges. Thou shouldest so long beare vntil he had of him selfe neglected those lawes.Caules lactuce ab imo depurgatos, eatenus qua tenera folia videbuntur. Col. The stalkes of lettise made cleane so far as the leanes shall seeme tender.Eatenus dabitur in eum actio, quatenus ex ea re locupletior factus est. Caius. So long, vntill.Verba persequens eatenus, vt ea non abhorreant more nostro.Cic.Following their wordes so farre as they bee not repagnant to our maner.Si eatenus progreditur vt dicat qua quidque ratione faciendum. Colum. If he proceede so farre as to declare after what sort euerie thing is to be done.Eatenus ne quid, pro solùm. Suet. Eatenus interueniebat nequid perperam fieret. He did only intermeddle that nothing should be done amisse.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ĕā-tĕnus, adv. [is], designates the limit to which an action or condition extends, so far (rare; perh. not before Cic., for in Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 50, the right reading is protenus); followed by quatenus, Cels. 2, 10; Dig. 47, 2, 92: caules lactucae ab imo depurgatos eatenus, qua tenera folia videbuntur, etc., Col. 12, 9, 1; followed by qua, id. 4, 7, 2; id. Arb. 8, 2; Quint. 1, 11, 1.— With quoad: hoc civile, quod vocant, eatenus exercuerunt, quoad populum praestare voluerunt, Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 14; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3; id. Univ. 11.—With ut, to such a degree, to that extent: verba persequens eatenus, ut ea non abhorreant a more nostro, Cic. Opt. Gen. 7 fin.; Cels. 5, 26; Col. 5, 1, 3.—Cf. with ne, Cels. 6, 6; Suet. Tib. 33; Just. 5, 10.—II. Of time, so long, hitherto (late Lat.), Capitol. Gordian. 22; Oros. 6, 1.
