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quămobrem (or quăm ob rem ), adv. quam-ob-rem (class.).
I. Interrog., for what reason? on what account? wherefore? why? Am. Scelestissumum te arbitror. So. Nam quamobrem? Am. Quia, etc., Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 2: “quem ad finem? ... quamobrem? quam ob causam?Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 75; id. Fin. 1, 5, 15.— In indirect questions: cum quaereret quam ob rem Ariovistus non decertaret. Caes. B. G. 1, 50. —
2. At the beginning of a sentence, as a particle of transition, on which account, for which cause, wherefore: “quamobrem quaeso a vobis, Asiatici testes,Cic. Fl. 27, 65: “quamobrem quoniam, etc. ... utar clausulā, etc.,id. Fam. 2, 4, 2; 10, 10, 1.
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