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quĕ (lengthened in arsis by the poets, like the Gr. τε:
I.Faunique Satyrique,Ov. M. 1, 193; 4, 10; 5, 484; Verg. A. 3, 91 al.), conj. enclitic [kindr. with Gr. τε, κε, and Sanscr. ca, the same], a copulative particle affixed to the word it annexes. According to Dräger (Hist. Synt. Th. 3, p. 32), it is, in archaic and official language, preferred to et, from which it is distinguished by denoting a closer connection. It is used,
I. Singly, to effect,
A. Co-ordination of words,
2. Of contrasted meaning: “jus nefasque,Hor. Epod. 5, 87: longe lateque, Naev. ap. Non. p. 503: “cominus eminusque,Liv. 31, 24: “ultro citroque,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 170: “terrā marique,Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 25: “ferro ignique,Cic. Phil. 11, 14, 37: “pace belloque,Liv. 2, 1: “belli domique,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 230: “domi ferisque,Sall. J. 85, 3: “tempus locusque,Liv. 1, 9: “parvis magnisque,Plaut. Ps. 771: “floribus coronisque,flowers loose and bound up, Curt. 4, 4, 5. —
B. Adding a detail or explanation (not in Cic.).
2. Special to general: “arma tantum ferrumque in dextris,Liv. 5, 42, 8. —
C. Introducing an explanatory clause, and so (Liv.): “fretusque his animis Aeneas,Liv. 1, 2: “Sabinusque,id. 1, 45. —
D. In an answer (very rare): “Ain heri nos adventisse huc? Aio, adveniensque ilico me salutasti,Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 167.—
E. Equivalent to quoque only in hodieque (not before Velleius): “quae hodieque appellatur Ionia,Vell. 1, 4, 3: “quae hodieque celebres sunt,id. 2, 8, 3: “in Abydi gymnasio colitur hodieque,Plin. 2, 58, 59, § 150: “et hodieque reliquiae durant,id. 8, 45, 70, § 176: “sunt clari hodieque,Quint. 10, 1, 94. —
F. Connecting final member of a clause: “fauste, feliciter, prospereque,Cic. Mur. 1, 1 fin.: “ab honore, famā fortunisque,id. ib. 1, 1 fin.: “pacem, tranquillitatem, otium concordiamque afferat,id. ib. 1, 1. —
II. Repeated, que . . . que.
A. Both ... and (not in Cæs., once in Cic.; v. Zumpt, Gram. § 338), co-ordinating,
2. Contrasted notions: “meque teque,Asin. 3, 2, 31: mores veteresque novosque tenentem, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4, 4: “mittuntque feruntque,Ov. M. 12, 495: “noctesque diesque,Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 51.—
3. Esp. when one or both of the words are pronouns: “seque remque publicam curabant,Sall. C. 9, 3: “quique in urbe erant, quosque acciverant,Liv. 1, 55: “quique exissent, quique ibi mansissent,id. 25, 22.—
B. Que ... que, and ... and, the first que referring to a previous clause: singulasque res definimus, circumscripteque complectimur, Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 147.—
III. More than twice.
2. Four times, Sil. 2, 444; “five times,Verg. G. 3, 344; “seven times,Ov. M. 9, 691.—
IV. Followed by other conjunctions.
2. Que ... et ... et: “Romanique et Macedones et socii,Liv. 44, 29: “seque et arma et equos,Tac. Agr. 18: “seque et domum et pacem,id. A. 1, 4; 12, 37. —
3. Que ... ac (rare, not earlier than Verg.): “satisque ac super,Ov. M. 4, 429: “minusque ac minus,Liv. 26, 17: “oculisque ac mente turbatus,id. 7, 26: “posuitque domos atque horrea fecit,Verg. G. 1, 182: “seque ac liberos suos,Tac. H. 3, 63: “opibusque atque honoribus,id. ib. 4, 34. —
4. Que ... ac ... et: “in quos seque ac conjuges et liberos condunt,Curt. 5, 6, 17. —
5. Que ... et ... ac, Liv. 35, 41. —
V. Following a conjunction, et ... que: paratissimi et ab exercitu reliquisque rebus, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, a, 5: “id et singulis universisque honori fuisse,Liv. 4, 2 (Weissenb. et id); “occasionally in Cic. (through negligence, acc. to Madvig): igitur et Epaminondas ... Themistoclesque,Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4: “officia et servata praetermissaque,id. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—
VII. Que is usually appended to the first word of the phrase, but to a noun rather than to a monosyllabic preposition governing it, unless the preposition is repeated: “de provinciāque,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48: “per vimque,id. Phil. 5, 4, 10; cf.: “ab iisque,id. Tusc. 5, 33, 94: “sub occasumque solis,Caes. B. G. 2, 11.— “Exceptions are to be found, especially in Liv.: proque ignoto,Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 10: “exque eo tempore,Cic. Off. 2, 23, 80; 1, 34, 122: “inque eam rem,id. Rosc. Am. 39, 114: “inque eo exercitu,id. Sest. 18, 41: “inque eam rem,Caes. B. G. 5, 36; Liv. 10, 37, 15; 40, 57, 5; Tac. A. 15, 45: “cumque eis,Sall. C. 6, 1: “proque,Liv. 4, 26, 9; 6, 26, 5; 30, 18, 2: “deque praedā,id. 23, 11, 3: “perque,id. 1, 49, 5; 3, 6, 7; 5, 36, 7: “transque,id. 22, 41, 7: “aque,Ov. Am. 2, 14, 30: “eque,Verg. E. 7, 13; Val. Max. 1, 5, 3: “exque eo,Cels. 7, 27: “perque somnum,id. 2, 5.—And where the same preposition is repeated que is regularly joined to it: “haec de se, deque provinciā,Liv. 26, 28, 3; 22, 59, 16; 29, 23, 10; 31, 5, 4; “38, 35, 7: de matrimonio Agrippinae, deque Neronis adoptione,Suet. Claud. 43 init.: “per senectutem tuam, perque eam, quam, etc.,Plaut. As. 1, 1, 3. — “Where the preposition is dissyllabic it regularly takes the que: interque eos,Liv. 2, 20, 8; 5, 49, 7: “sine scutis sineque ferro,Cic. Caecin. 23, 64. — “It is rarely annexed to the second word of the clause, when the first word is an adverb: tantos tam praecipitisque casus,Cic. de Or. 3, 4, 13: “tanto tam immensoque campo,id. ib. 3, 31, 124 al.—In class. Latin que is not appended to hic, sic, nunc, huc, etc. (v. Madv. ad. Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 40): “hucque et illuc,Tac. A. 13, 37; 15, 38: tuncque id. ib. 6, 7 (1); “14, 15.—Que is often misplaced by the poets, especially by Tibullus and Propertius in the latter part of the pentameter: Messallam terrā dum sequiturque mari,Tib. 1, 3, 56: “ferratam Danaes transiliamque domum,Prop. 2, 16, 11.
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