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quantus-cumque

quantus-cumque · adj

how great soever

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What it meant

quantus-cumque — Lewis & Short

quantus-cumque, tăcumque, tumcumque, adj.,

I how great soever, of whatever size (class.): quantuscumque sum ad judicandum, Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 122: bona, quantacumque erant, id. Phil. 5, 8, 22: adfectus, quantuscumque est, Sen. Ep. 85, 8: quantaecumquae de Romanis tamen, victoriae fama, however small, Liv. 27, 31, 3: unum quantumcunque ex insperato gaudium, id. 30, 10, 20 Weissenb. ad loc.: quanticumque, at whatsoever price, Sen. Ep. 80, 4.—To denote indefiniteness in number, how many soever: naves eorum, quantaecumque fuerint, Cod. Th. 13, 5, 5.— Neutr. adverb.: quantum-cumque, as much soever: quantumcumque possum, as much as ever I can, Cic. Fin. 1, 4, 10.

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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.