I.newly, lately, recently, not long ago.
I. Lit.: “quamquam haec inter nos nuper notitia admodumst,” Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 1 Flect. Ussing. (al. nupera): “nuper, et quid dico nuper? immo vero modo, ac plane paulo ante vidimus,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 6; Verg. E. 2, 25; 3, 2; 99; “5, 14 al.: de quo sum nuper tecum locutus,” Cic. Att. 14, 7, 2; 13, 29: “is, qui nuper Romae fuit,” id. de Or 1, 19, 85: “fac, quod fecisti nuper in curiā,” id. Lig. 12, 37; id. Div. in Caecil. 20, 64: “miseraeque nuper virgines nuptae,” Hor. C. 2, 8, 22.—Followed by cum, Cic. de Or. 3, 61, 229; Liv. 28, 42, 14.—Sup.: “ab eo quod ille nuperrime dixerit,” Cic. Inv. 1, 17, 24: “quoniam nuperrime dictum facillime memoriae mandatur,” Auct. Her. 3, 10, 18.—
2. Esp.: “nunc nuper,” a little while ago, just now, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 45; Ter. Eun. prooem. 9; Symm. Ep. 2, 3; App. M. 9, 16, p. 224.—
II. Transf., recently, in modern times: “neque ante philosophiam patefactam, quae nuper inventa est,” Cic. Div. 1, 39, 86: “quid ea. quae nuper, id est paucis ante saeculis, reperta sunt,” id. N. D. 2, 50, 126; Liv. 4, 30, 14; “of a time three years back,” Cic. Sull. 32, 89; “four years back,” Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—
B. Formerly, once: “vixi puellis nuper idoneus ... Nunc, etc.,” Hor. C. 3, 26, 1: “heros regali conspectus in auro,” id. A. P. 227.
