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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. —
II. Rel., from which cause or reason, wherefore, why: “hoc est homini, quamobrem vitam amet,” Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 11; id. Most. 2, 1, 66; id. Aul. 4, 10, 6: “multae sunt causae, quamobrem cupio abducere,” Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 65; Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 1: “verum illud est, quamobrem haec commemorarim,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 135: si res reperietur, quam obrem videantur, id. Rosc. Am. 3, 8; id. Caecin. 33, 96.—
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 eā clausulā, etc.,” id. Fam. 2, 4, 2; 10, 10, 1.
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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