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quĕo , īvi and ii, ĭtum, v. n. etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. ?*!vay āmi, am strong or able,
I.to be able, I (thou, he, etc.) can (class.; esp. freq. with a negation; Cic. does not use nequeo in the first pers. sing.; for a full account of the forms in use, v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 607 sqq.; cf.: possum, polleo, valeo).—With inf.: “non queo reliqua scribere,” Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 5: “non quis,” Hor. S. 2, 7, 92: “non quit sentire dolorem,” Lucr. 3, 647: “ut quimus,” Ter. And. 4, 5, 10: “quod vos dicere non quitis,” Arn. 3, 104: “quod manu non queunt tangere,” Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 10: “queam,” Hor. S. 2, 5, 2; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 5: “queas,” id. ib. 4, 8, 74; Hor. S. 2, 5, 10: “queat,” Sall. C. 58, 15: “queamus,” Verg. A. 10, 19: “si queant,” Just. 5, 4, 15: “non quibam,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 31: “quibat,” id. Rud. 3, 1, 8; Vulg. Dan. 8, 7: “quirem,” Plaut. Merc. prol. 55: “quiret,” Cic. Off. 3, 15, 62; Tac. A. 1, 66: “quirent,” Stat. S. 5, 3, 60: “nec credere quivi,” Verg. A. 6, 463: “quivit,” Ter. And. 4, 1, 31; Nep. Att. 19, 2: quiit, Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1: “quivimus,” Vulg. Dan. 13, 39: “quistis,” Juvenc. 2, 679: quiverunt, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 15, 1: “quivere,” Tac. H. 3, 25: “quivero,” Vulg. Exod. 32, 30: “quiverit,” Liv. 4, 24; Tac. A. 1, 66: “quierit,” Lucr. 6, 855: “quiveritis,” Arn. 5, 161: “quiverint,” Hier. in Isa. 8, 24, 13: “quissent,” Aus. Epigr. 139: “quibo,” Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 25: “quibunt,” Arn. 7, 218: “quiens,” App. M. 6, p. 175, 9; in abl.: “queunte,” Cod. Just. 1, 3, 46: “quire,” Gell. 11, 9, 1: “quisse,” Lucr. 5, 1422.— “Affirmatively: hoc queo dicere,” Cic. Sen. 10, 32: “habere quod queant dicere,” id. Lael. 20, 71; id. Tusc. 5, 37, 108: “queat,” id. Rep. 2, 3, 6: “queamus,” id. de Or. 1, 58, 250: “queunt,” Sall. J. 44, 5; Col. 2, 2, 22. — In pass.: si non sarciri quitur, Caecil. ap. Diom. p. 380 P.: “percipi queuntur, Att. ib.: suppleri queatur,” Lucr. 1, 1045: “subigi queantur,” Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 12: neque vi impelli, neque prece quitus sum, could not be driven, Att. ap. Diom. p. 380 P.: “forma nosci non quita est,” Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 57.—As dep.: “pollicitus ita facturum, ne sic quidem quitus est,” could not, was not able, App. Mag. p. 274, 17.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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