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quivis

who

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Where it lives

Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Medicamina faciei femineae 2 · 32.63/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 8 · 30.44/10k
De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
Epistularum 2 · 25/10k
Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Timoleon 2 · 24.15/10k
Opilius Macrinus 5 · 20.08/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 3 · 17.96/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 5 · 16.18/10k
Parentalia 4 · 15.39/10k

Densest 12 of 232 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quī-vīs — Lewis & Short

quī-vīs, quaevis, quodvis (

abl. quīvis, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1), and

I subst. quidvis, pron. indef. (separated: quod genus vis propagabis, Cato, R. R. 52), who or what you please, any whatever, any one, any thing: Juppiter non minus, quam vostrum quivis, formidat malum, Plaut. Am. prol. 27: quaevis alia mora, id. Mil. 4, 7, 10: omnia sunt ejusmodi, quivis ut perspicere possit, etc., Cic. Quint. 27, 84: ad quemvis numerum ephippiatorum equitum quamvis pauci adire audent, Caes. B. G. 4, 2: quaevis amplificationes, all sorts of, Cic. Inv. 1, 53, 100: unus amet quāvis aspergere cunctos, i. e. quāvis ratione, Hor. S. 1, 4, 87: ab quīvis (abl.) homine beneficium accipere gaudeas, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1: cujusvis opes voluisse contra illius potentiam crescere, Sall. C. 17, 7: quovis modo inceptum perficere, id. J. 11, 9; 35, 4: quovis sermone molestus, Hor. S. 1, 3, 65: eripiet quivis oculos citius, id. ib. 2, 5, 35.—Joined with unus, any one you please, any one whatever: una harum quaevis causa, Ter. And. 5, 4, 1: si tu solus, aut quivis unus, Cic. Caecin. 22, 62: non quivis unus ex populo, sed existimator doctus, id. Brut. 93, 320. — quidvīs, as subst., any thing whatever, no matter what: dicere hic quidvis licet, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 31: quidvis satis est, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 28; Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 28: si quidvis satis est, Hor. S. 2, 3, 127.— With gen.: quidvis anni, i. e. at any season of the year, Cato, R. R. 17.

In the wild

quamvis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3.24.12
quamvis Celsus, De Medicina 5.28.p11
quamvis Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.225
quamvis Ovid, Tristia 5.7.31
quamvis Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 24.51
quemvis Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.44.2

6 of 1,750 attestations shown.

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