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intĕr-ĕā, adv.

  1. I. Meanwhile, in the meantime, in the interim (class.): saepe interea mihi senex narrabat, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 18: interea dies advenit, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 15, § 37: cum interea, Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 7; Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 15: haec dum Romae geruntur, Quintius interea de agro detruditur, id. Quint. 6.
    With loci: plus triginta natus annis sum, cum interea loci Numquam quicquam facinus feci pejus quam hodie, Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 1; id. Ps. 1, 3, 32; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 24; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 16; Pac. ap. Non. 488, 14 (Trag. Rel. p. 71 Rib.).
    1. * B. (For interdum.) Sometimes, Sil. 7, 395.
  2. II. Transf., like Engl. meanwhile (approaching the sense of), nevertheless, however (but in class. prose always retaining a reference to time; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 611 sq.), Cic. Fam. 5, 12 fin.; Verg. G. 1, 83: cum interea, Cic. Clu. 30, 82; cf.: tamen interea, Cat. 101, 7.