anteidĕā

antĕā, temp. adv. (old form * antidĕā or anteidĕā, MS., Liv. 22, 10, 6; v. Neue, Formenl. II. p. 680) [ante-eā like antehāc, posteā, posthāc, proptereā, quāpropter, etc., in which Corssen, Ausspr. I. p. 769, regards the pron. as an old acc. with the a final long; Key, Gr. § 802, regards these suffixes as corrupted from the acc. of pronouns in -am; cf. quam], of some (past or pres.) time, before, formerly, earlier, aforetime, in time past, etc. (relative; while antehac demonstr. is used only in ref. to present time. The use of antea for prius is censured by Atticus in Cic. Att. 15, 13).

Absol.:

nam antea Quī scire posses aut ingenium noscere?

Ter. And. 1, 1, 25:

antea, cum equester ordo judicaret, improbi et rapaces magistratus in provinciis inserviebant publicanis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 41:

ac fuit antea tempus, cum, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 6, 24:

cum antea semper factiosus fuisset,

Nep. Lys. 1, 3:

et antea laudatus et hoc tempore laudandus,

Cic. Phil. 10, 6, 13; so id. Fam. 12, 30; 13, 17 al.:

hunc audiebant antea, nunc praesentem vident, etc.,

id. Imp. Pomp. 5; so id. Verr. 2, 3, 57; id. Fam. 9, 16; Liv. 5, 17; 13, 41 al.:

si antea fuit ignotum, nuper est cognitum,

Cic. Off. 2, 7, 23:

quales antea fuerant,

Vulg. Ex. 34, 4; ib. Jer. 36, 32; ib. Luc. 23, 12 et saep.—

Freq. opp. to postea, post, posthac, tum, tunc, etc.:

et clari fuerunt, et antea fuerant, nec postea defecerunt,

Cic. Or. 2, 6; so id. Fam. 1, 9, 74; Suet. Dom. 2:

hanc consuetudinem jam antea minuebamus, post Sullae victoriam penitus amisimus,

Cic. Off. 2, 8, 27; so id. Att. 1, 11:

non accusabimur posthac: neque antea neglegentes fuimus,

id. ib. 7, 3:

semper ille antea cum uxore, tum sine eā,

id. Mil. 21; so Liv. 23, 19; so,

antea... tunc,

id. 29, 9.—

Rarely for ante followed by deinde, mox, etc.: clipeis antea Romani usi sunt, deinde scuta pro clipeis fecere, formerly, at an earlier period... then, in process of time, etc., Liv. 8, 8:

Poneropolis antea, mox Philippopolis, nunc Trimontium dicta,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41.—

Rarely also for ante, followed by quam:

te antea, quam tibi successum esset, decessurum fuisse,

Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 2 B. and K.:

Achaei non antea ausi capessere bellum, quam ab Romā revertissent legati,

Liv. 35, 25, 3 Weissenb.