[en] I intend to study the use of quando in Livy’s History of Rome. From the Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina CD-ROM (BTL-4) I identified 79 instances of quando whose use is essentially causal in our corpus. I show that quando presupposes the truth of the proposition introduced and justifies a speech act. In terms of Functional Grammar, clauses introduced by quando must be considered as disjunct satellites operating at the interpersonal level. Finally some occurrences, coming from archaic legislative passages, attest the use of quando as a relative adverb with temporal value. Thus I argue that quando in Livy’s History of Rome is multifunctional.
