I.on which side, at or in which place, in what direction, where, by what way (class.).
I. Lit., of place: “orasque Italicas omnis, quā adgreditur mare, sumus circumvecti,” Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 12: “fumus si quā exit foras,” id. Aul. 2, 4, 22: “jubet persequi, si quā queat reperire quae sustulerit,” id. Cist. 1, 3, 35: regna mihi liquit Pelops, quā ponto ab Helles urgetur Isthmos, Poët. ap. Sen. Ep. 80, 7; cf. Cic. Or. 49, 163: “ad omnes introitus, quā adiri poterat,” id. Caecin. 8, 21: “quo loco depulsus, Caecina, quā potuit, profectus est,” id. ib. 8, 22: “sum e proximo vicini fundo dejectus, quā adibam ad istum fundum,” id. ib. 29, 82: “in templum ipse nescio quā ascendit,” id. Phil. 3, 8, 20: “eādem, quā ceteri, fugere noluit,” id. Div. 1, 54, 123: “quā se parens persequeretur,” id. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22: “arx Athenarum, quā ad meridiem vergit,” Nep. Cim. 2, 5: “reliquum spatium, quā flumen intermittit,” Caes. B. G. 1, 38: “plurima quā silva est,” Ov. M. 14, 361: “complentur moenia ac tecta, quāque longissime prospectari poterat,” i. e. as far as the eye could reach, Tac. A. 3, 1; Verg. A. 2, 753: “quā te ducit via, dirige gressum,” id. ib. 1, 401; “12, 507: oras, quā medius liquor Secernit Europen ab Afro,” Hor. C. 3, 3, 46; 3, 30, 10; Ov. M. 1, 187: “vagari, quā velit,” wherever, wheresoever, as far as, Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 70: “omnia, quā visus erat, constrata telis, armis,” Sall. J. 101, 11; cf. Ov. M. 1, 241: “quā murum ducturi erant,” Liv. 1, 44; 4, 17; 5, 43: “quā modo simulato metu cesserant, eā in veram fugam effusi,” id. 6, 24, 11.— Rarely with antecedent in plur.: “ad omnes introitus quā adire poterat,” Cic. Caecin. 8, 21: “vias relaxat, veniat quā sucus in herbas,” Verg. G. 1, 90: “viae, quā,” id. A. 5, 590: “duae erant viae, quā, etc.,” Nep. Eum. 8, 4. —
II. Transf.
A. Partit.: quā . . . quā, partly . . . partly; as well . . . as; both . . . and: “mores rapere properant, quā sacrum, quā publicum,” Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 39: “qui consectare quā maris quā feminas,” id. Mil. 4, 2, 20; 4, 9, 15: “ut si sunt quā suis quisque quā totius ordinis viribus,” Liv. 2, 35, 4: “omnia convestivit hederā, quā basim villae, quā intercolumnia,” Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 5: “quā dominus, quā advocati,” id. Att. 2, 19, 3; 9, 12, 1: “quā de Buthrotiis, quā de Bruto,” id. ib. 15, 18, 2: “quā falsa, quā vera,” Liv. 2, 45 et saep.: “quā feminae, quā viri,” Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 4.—
B. As far as, in so far as (mostly post - Aug.): “statui non ultra attingere externa, nisi quā Romanis cohaerent rebus,” Liv. 39, 48: “Aegyptii ignem vocant masculum, quā ardet flamma, et feminam, quā lucet innoxius tactu,” Sen. Q. N. 3, 12, 2: “assumere in causam naturas eorum, quā competent, aut mitigare, quā repugnabunt, oportebit,” Quint. 4, 1, 17; Tac. A. 6, 10; cf.: “in praesentia non quā filius alicujus, sed quā homo, aestimatur,” Dig. 35, 2, 63.—
C. In what manner, how, by what method; to what degree or extent: “quominus ei liceat eādem illā facultate et copiā vagari, quā velit,” Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 70: “numquid tute prospexti tibi, Quid fieret? quā fieret?” Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 56 (id est: quā ratione, quo modo fieret, Don.); cf. id. ib. 4, 4, 18: “quā facere id possis, nostram nunc accipe mentem,” Verg. A. 1,676: “coëant in foedera dextrae, Quā datur,” Verg. A. 11, 293 Forbig. ad loc.: ante praedico, M. Antonium delectus, quā possit, habiturum, in whatever manner, Cic. Phil. 6, 3, 5: “veterem tutare sodalem, Quā licet,” Ov. P. 2, 4, 33: “quā licet et possum, luctor celare furorem,” id. H. 15 (16), 235: “quā populus laboret,” Hor. C. 3, 8, 25.