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Quamobrem

Quamobrem · adv

Interrog

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Where it lives

Heautontimorumenos 15 · 13.65/10k
Hecyra 11 · 12.2/10k
Phormio 10 · 9.22/10k
Adelphi 7 · 7.07/10k
Andria 6 · 6.09/10k
Eunuchus 6 · 5.53/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Noctes Atticae 16 · 1.43/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quămobrem — Lewis & Short

quămobrem (or quăm ob rem), adv.quam-ob-rem (class.).

I Interrog., for what reason? on what account? wherefore? why? Am. Scelestissumum te arbitror. So. Nam quamobrem? Am. Quia, etc., Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 2: quem ad finem? ... quamobrem? quam ob causam? Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 75; id. Fin. 1, 5, 15.— In indirect questions: cum quaereret quam ob rem Ariovistus non decertaret. Caes. B. G. 1, 50. —

II Rel., from which cause or reason, wherefore, why: hoc est homini, quamobrem vitam amet, Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 11; id. Most. 2, 1, 66; id. Aul. 4, 10, 6: multae sunt causae, quamobrem cupio abducere, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 65; Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 1: verum illud est, quamobrem haec commemorarim, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 135: si res reperietur, quam obrem videantur, id. Rosc. Am. 3, 8; id. Caecin. 33, 96.—

2 At the beginning of a sentence, as a particle of transition, on which account, for which cause, wherefore: quamobrem quaeso a vobis, Asiatici testes, Cic. Fl. 27, 65: quamobrem quoniam, etc. ... utar eā clausulā, etc., id. Fam. 2, 4, 2; 10, 10, 1.

In the wild

quamobrem Terence, Phormio 2.3
Quamobrem Terence, Hecyra 4.4
quamobrem Terence, Heautontimorumenos 2.3
Quamobrem Terence, Heautontimorumenos 5.1
Quamobrem Terence, Andria 4.3
Quamobrem Terence, Phormio 2.1

6 of 93 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.