The corpus record — Latin

quapropter

for what

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Where it lives

Mostellaria 4 · 4.16/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 2 · 3.44/10k
Adelphi 3 · 3.03/10k
Pro A. Caecina 3 · 2.89/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 20 · 2.52/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Hecyra 2 · 2.22/10k
Andria 2 · 2.03/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quă-propter — Lewis & Short

quă-propter (in tmesi:

I qua me propter adduxi, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 4), adv. qui-propter, for what, wherefore, why.

I Interrog. (ante- and post-class.): quapropter id vos factum suspicamini? Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 52: Tra. Quāpropter? Theo. Quia, etc., id. ib. 3, 2, 140: parumper opperire me hic: My. Quapropter? Ter. And. 4, 2, 31.—

B Indirect: sed quid est quapropter nobis vos malum minitamini? Plaut. Bacch. 5, 4, 25: credo te non nihil mirari, Quid sit, quapropter te huc foras puerum evocare jussi, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 6: interrogatus quapropter vellet, etc., Val. Max. 8, 13, ext. 2. —

II Transf., in passing to a new thought, wherefore, on which account (class.): quapropter hoc dicam, numquam, etc., Cic. Caecin. 27, 78; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 116; id. Ad. 3, 2, 44; Val. Max. 6, 4, 4 al.

In the wild

quapropter Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.8
quapropter Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.6.p12
quapropter Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.131
quapropter Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 1.1.4
quapropter Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.220
Quapropter Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 50.6

6 of 202 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. quapropter (scan p. 574; entry #9419).

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