quamquam — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

De Herediolo 1 · 44.84/10k
Aristides 1 · 29.24/10k
De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 12 · 17.8/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 8 · 14.51/10k
Galba 4 · 14.5/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 18 · 14.21/10k
Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Divus Titus 2 · 13.44/10k
In L. Catilinam 16 · 12.74/10k
Philippicae 67 · 12.74/10k
Letters 82 · 12.65/10k

Densest 12 of 226 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quam-quam — Lewis & Short

quam-quam (quan-),

I conj., though, although, albeit; ante-class. always, and in class. prose regularly joined with indic.; by Cic. rarely with the subj., and usu. when the general idea would demand the subj. (as potential, conditional, consecutive, etc.; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 574; Madv. § 361, A, 3; and v. esp. Fischer, Gram. 2, p. 696 sq.).

(a) With indic.: quamquam blandā voce vocabam, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 41 (Ann. v. 50 Vahl.): quamquam libenter escis alienis studes, Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 8; id. Mil. 4, 8, 44: quamquam est scelestus, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 5: quamquam id est minime probandum, Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 42; 1, 4, 7; id. Ac. 2, 6, 16; 1, 9, 34: quamquam non venit ad finem tam audax inceptum, tamen, etc., Liv. 10, 32: Romani, quamquam fessi erant, Sall. J. 53: quamquam festinas, non est mora longa, Hor. C. 1, 28, 35 et saep.—

(b) With subj.: quamquam illa ipsa exclamatio Non potest melius sit velim crebra, Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 101: quamquam sint in quibusdam malis, tamen, etc., id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85: quamquam ne id quidem suspicionem coitionis habuerit, although even that gave rise to no suspicion, id. Planc. 22, 53; id. de Or. 2, 1, 1: Romanis, quamquam procul a patriā pugnarent, etc., Liv. 23, 29, 7: quamquam nonnullis leve visum iri putem, Nep. Att. 13. 6: quamquam moveretur his vocibus, Liv. 36, 34, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf. id. 6, 9, 6; 45, 17, 7.—

(g) Ellipt., with an adj. or part.: bellum atque arma, quamquam vobis invisa, tamen quia Lepido placent, sumenda sunt, Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 48, 2: acri viro, et quamquam advorso populi partium, famá tamen aequabili, id. J. 43, 1 Dietsch: omnia illa, quamquam expetenda, etc., Cic. Fin. 5, 23, 68: curam adhibere, quamquam difficili in re, id. Fam. 2, 7, 3; 5, 3, 4; Liv. 4, 53, 1 Weissenb. ad loc.—

(d) With a subj.-clause: quamquam ne impudicitiam quidem nunc abesse Pallante adultero, Tac. A. 12, 65, 3.—

II In partic., as a rhetor. particle of transition, inobjections made by the speaker himself, although, however, yet, nevertheless, notwithstanding: quamquam, quem potissimum Herculem colamus, scire sane velim, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42: quamquam quid loquor, id. Cat. 1, 9, 22: quamquam te quidem quid hoc doceam, id. de Or. 2, 47, 197; id. Phil. 2, 16, 42: quamquam o! sed superent, etc., Verg. A. 5, 195.

In the wild

quamquam Tacitus, Historiae 3.66
Quamquam Petronius, Satyricon 107
quamquam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.20.p1
quanquam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.44
quamquam Sallust, Jugurtha 31.p5
quamquam Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.28.3

6 of 2,199 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. quamquam (scan p. 575; entry #9435).