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Oxford Latin Dictionary, s.v. continuo¹, adv.:

1 Forthwith, without delay, immediately.

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b immediately from the beginning, from the first.

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c (in an enumeration of places) immediately thereafter.

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2 Without further evidence, without more ado; (esp. w. neg. expressed or implied in qu.) necessarily, in consequence.

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3 Without intermission, continuously.

Jerzy Linderski, "The Quaestorship of Marcus Antonius," Roman Questions: Selected Papers (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995), pp. 251-261 (at 258):

The word is commonly rendered as "immediately"; Cicero, however, (as is easily seen from the examples in Merguet's dictionary) uses it often to indicate that between two closely connected events no other event occurred bearing upon them.³⁶ Thus the length of time indicated by continuo may vary considerably, as is also true of other similar expressions like mox and nuper.

³⁶ Cf. esp. Cael. 9; Vat. 36: quis legatos umquam audivit sine senatus consulto? Ante te nemo: post (i.e., after 59) continuo (i.e., in 58) fecit idem . . . Clodius.

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