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qualiscumque

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Tristia 6 · 2.63/10k
De Clementia 2 · 2.4/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Ex Ponto 3 · 1.45/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 2 · 1.33/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quālis-cumque — Lewis & Short

quālis-cumque, quale-cumque, or -cunque (separated:

I quale id cumque est, Cic. N. D. 2, 30, 76; Ov. P. 4, 13, 6), adj. qualis.

I Rel., of what quality soever, of whatever kind (class.).

A With verb: licet videre, qualescumque summi civitatis viri fuerunt, talem civitatem fuisse, Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 31: sed homines benevolos, qualescumque sunt, grave est insequi contumeliā, be they as they may, id. Att. 14, 14, 5. —

B Absol. by ellipsis of verb, in emphatic expressions (v. Zumpt, § 706): qualicumque urbis statu sisti potuisse, Liv. 2, 44, 10: pluris qualemcunque vitam honestā morte aestimare, Curt. 5, 8, 6: si libertatem sequimur, qui locus hoc dominatu vacat? Sin qualemcunque locum, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 8, 2; id. Att. 9, 6, 4: imperatores voto expetere, qualescumque tolerare, Tac. H. 4, 8; id. A. 11, 4: carmina lector Commendet dulci qualiacumque sono, Ov. A. A. 2, 283; Liv. 38, 9, 2; Quint. 9, 10, 1; 11, 1, 14; Curt. 5, 9, 12; Suet. Calig. 8; Plin. 18, 16, 40, § 141. —

II Transf., indef., any without exception, any whatever: sin qualemcumque locum sequimur, quae est domestica sede jucundior? Cic. Fam. 4, 8, 2; Manil. 2, 856. — Hence, adv.: quālĭtercumquē or -cunquē, in what way soever, howsoever, be it as it may (post-Aug.), i. q. utcunque, Col. 2, 10, 2: proeliare, Just. 2, 11, 11; Flor. 3, 19, 1; Col. 11, 3, 34; Dig. 27, 1, 21.

In the wild

qualicumque Apuleius, Apologia 62
qualiscumque Tacitus, Historiae 4.9
qualicumque Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 p56
qualiacumque Ovid, Tristia 1.11.18
qualiacumque Ovid, Ex Ponto 2.5.10
qualicumque Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.1.5

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