[quotiēns, quotiēnscumque.]
[1885.] The relative particle quotiēns ([711]), or quotiēnscumque, every time that, whenever, introduces the indicative: as,
quotiēns quaeque cohors prōcurrerat, magnus numerus hostium cadēbat, 5, 34, 2, as the cohorts successively charged, a great number of the enemy fell every time. quoius quotiēns sepulcrum vidēs, sacruficās, Pl. E. 175, every time you see her tomb, you offer sacrifice. nec quotiēnscumque mē vīderit, ingemīscet, Sest. 146, neither shall he fall a-groaning whenever he sees me ([1736]). quotiēnsque is late and rare.
[1886.] quotiēns has sometimes as a correlative totiēns, or a combination with tot which is equivalent to totiēns: as, quotiēns dīcimus, totiēns dē nōbīs iūdicātur, DO. 1, 125, every time we make a speech, the world sits in judgement on us. sī tot cōnsulibus meruisset, quotiēns ipse cōnsul fuit, Balb. 47, if he had been in the army as many years as he was consul.
[1887.] The subjunctive imperfect and pluperfect are common in the later writers to indicate repeated action ([1730]): as, quotiēns super tālī negōtiō cōnsultāret, ēditā domūs parte ac lībertī ūnīus cōnscientiā ūtēbātur, Ta. 6, 27, whenever he had recourse to astrologers, it was in the upper part of his house and with the cognizance of only a single freedman.
[quam.]
[1888.] quam, as or than, introduces an indicative protasis in periods of comparison. For special reasons, however, the subjunctive is used, as by attraction ([1728]), or of action conceivable ([1731]); see also [1896, 1897].
But usually periods of comparison are abridged ([1057]) by the omission of the verb or of other parts in the protasis ([1325]).
With the Indicative.