Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.how constituted, of what sort, kind, or nature, what kind of a (class.).

I. Interrog.: qualine amico mea commendavi bona? Call. Probo, et fideli, et fido, Plaut. Trin. 4, 4, 3: “qualis oratoris et quanti hominis in dicendo putas esse historiam scribere?” Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 51: “quali fide, quali pietate existimatis eos esse, qui, etc.,” Cic. Font. 10, 21: “qualis est istorum oratio?” what kind of a speech is that? id. Ac. 2, 14, 44 — “In exclamations: hei mihi, qualis erat!” Verg. A. 2, 274; Enn. ap. Serv. ad loc. (Ann. v. 7 Vahl.): O Romule, Romule, dic, qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt! Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 116 Vahl.).— “In indirect questions: nam cogitato, qualem haberes gratiam (si, etc.),” Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 54: “ego te qualis sis scio,” id. Aul. 2, 2, 40; Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 20: “ipsius rei natura qualis et quanta sit quaerimus,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 23, 56: “qualis esset natura montis, cognoscere,” Caes. B. G. 1, 21: “doce me quales sint corpore,” what sort of a body they have, Cic. N. D. 1, 23, 65.—

II. Rel., with or without the correlative talis, so constituted, of such a sort, kind, or nature, such as, as: “ut qualem te jam antea populo Romano, praebuisti, talem te et nobis impertias,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 11: “ut res non tales, quales ante habitae sint, habendae videantur,” id. Inv. 2, 58, 176; id. Off. 2, 13, 44: “in hoc bello, quale bellum nulla barbaria gessit,” the like of which, id. Cat. 3, 10, 25; id. Phil. 2, 7, 17: “equitum acies, qualis quae esse instructissima potest, etc.,” Liv. 8, 39: “tale tuum carmen nobis, quale, etc.,” Verg. E. 5, 47: “bis sex ... qualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellus,” id. A. 12, 899.—

B. Esp., in quotations and citations, as, as for instance, as for example: “aperta et clara (somnia), quale est de illo, etc.,” Cic. Div. 2, 66, 135: “cum proposito dissimili vel contrario ratio subjungitur: quale est Demosthenis: non enim, etc.,” Quint. 5, 14, 4; so id. 1, 5, 65 Zumpt N. cr.; 3, 6, 41; 3, 11, 6 et saep. al.—

2. Poet. for the adv. qualiter, as, just as: “qualis populea moerens philomela sub umbra Amissos queritur fetus,” Verg. G. 4, 511; id. A. 3, 679; 4, 143: “quale caelum Subrubet,” Ov. Am. 2, 5, 35; id. M. 3, 682.—

3. Repeated: qualis qualis (post-class. for qualiscumque), of what quality soever, whatsoever: “quali quali obligatione interpositā,” Dig. 20, 5, 12.—

III. Indef.: quale, having some quality or other: “et ita effici quae appellant qualia,” Cic. Ac. 1, 7, 28: “prius aliquid esse debet, deinde quale esse,” Sen. Ep. 117, 28.— Adv.: quā-lĭter .

A. In what way or manner, how: “refert, villa qualiter aedificetur,” Col. 1, 4, 6; Mart. 5, 7, 1.— Qualiter qualiter, in what manner soever, for qualitercumque (postclass.), Dig. 4, 4, 7.—

B. Just as, as: “lacri mae fluxere per ora, Qualiter abjectā de nive manat aquā,” Ov. Am. 1, 7, 57; Cels. praef. p. 6; Val. Fl. 5, 305; Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193.—

C. Repeated: “qualiter qualiter,” in whatever manner, however, Dig. 4, 4, 7 pr.; 9, 2, 7, § 1; 26, 7, 5, § 10.