Latin

Adverb

istuc

1. thither, to you, in that direction
   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Captivi

     Haud istuc rogo. Fuistin liber? - Fui.

     That isn’t what I’m asking about. Were you a freeman? - I was.

   Concede istuc paululum.‎

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2. to that thing, to that subject in discourse

   Istuc ibam.‎

   I was going to that thing.

References

• istuc in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “istuc”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • there is something in what you say; you are more or less right: est istuc quidem aliquid