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<b class="b2">In so far forth as</b>: P. ᾗ (Plat.).
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|lshtext=<b>quā</b>: adv. abl. fem. from qui,<br /><b>I</b> on [[which]] [[side]], at or in [[which]] [[place]], in [[what]] [[direction]], [[where]], by [[what]] [[way]] ([[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit., of [[place]]: orasque Italicas [[omnis]], quā adgreditur [[mare]], sumus circumvecti, Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 12: [[fumus]] si quā [[exit]] [[foras]], id. Aul. 2, 4, 22: jubet persequi, si quā queat reperire quae sustulerit, id. Cist. 1, 3, 35: regna mihi liquit [[Pelops]], quā [[ponto]] ab Helles urgetur Isthmos, Poët. ap. Sen. Ep. 80, 7; cf. Cic. Or. 49, 163: ad omnes [[introitus]], quā adiri poterat, id. Caecin. 8, 21: quo [[loco]] [[depulsus]], [[Caecina]], quā potuit, [[profectus]] est, id. ib. 8, 22: [[sum]] e [[proximo]] vicini [[fundo]] dejectus, quā adibam ad istum fundum, id. ib. 29, 82: in [[templum]] [[ipse]] [[nescio]] quā ascendit, id. Phil. 3, 8, 20: eādem, quā ceteri, fugere noluit, id. Div. 1, 54, 123: quā se [[parens]] persequeretur, id. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22: arx Athenarum, quā ad meridiem vergit, Nep. Cim. 2, 5: reliquum [[spatium]], quā [[flumen]] intermittit, Caes. B. G. 1, 38: plurima quā [[silva]] est, Ov. M. 14, 361: complentur [[moenia]] ac tecta, quāque longissime prospectari poterat, i. e. as [[far]] as the [[eye]] could [[reach]], Tac. A. 3, 1; Verg. A. 2, 753: quā te ducit via, dirige gressum, id. ib. 1, 401; 12, 507: oras, quā [[medius]] [[liquor]] Secernit Europen ab Afro, Hor. C. 3, 3, 46; 3, 30, 10; Ov. M. 1, 187: vagari, quā velit, [[wherever]], [[wheresoever]], as [[far]] as, Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 70: omnia, quā [[visus]] erat, constrata [[telis]], armis, Sall. J. 101, 11; cf. Ov. M. 1, 241: quā murum ducturi erant, Liv. 1, 44; 4, 17; 5, 43: quā [[modo]] simulato metu cesserant, eā in veram fugam effusi, id. 6, 24, 11.— Rarely [[with]] [[antecedent]] in <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: ad omnes [[introitus]] quā adire poterat, Cic. Caecin. 8, 21: vias relaxat, veniat quā [[sucus]] in herbas, Verg. G. 1, 90: viae, quā, id. A. 5, 590: duae erant viae, quā, etc., Nep. Eum. 8, 4. —<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Partit.: quā . . . quā, [[partly]] . . . [[partly]]; as [[well]] . . . as; [[both]] . . . and: [[mores]] rapere properant, quā [[sacrum]], quā publicum, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 39: qui consectare quā maris quā feminas, id. Mil. 4, 2, 20; 4, 9, 15: ut si sunt quā suis [[quisque]] quā totius ordinis viribus, Liv. 2, 35, 4: omnia convestivit hederā, quā basim villae, quā intercolumnia, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 5: quā [[dominus]], quā advocati, id. Att. 2, 19, 3; 9, 12, 1: quā de Buthrotiis, quā de Bruto, id. ib. 15, 18, 2: quā falsa, quā vera, Liv. 2, 45 et saep.: quā feminae, quā viri, Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> As [[far]] as, in so [[far]] as ([[mostly]] [[post]] - Aug.): statui non [[ultra]] attingere externa, [[nisi]] quā Romanis cohaerent rebus, Liv. 39, 48: Aegyptii ignem vocant masculum, quā ardet [[flamma]], et feminam, quā [[lucet]] [[innoxius]] tactu, Sen. Q. N. 3, 12, 2: assumere in causam naturas eorum, quā [[competent]], aut mitigare, quā repugnabunt, oportebit, Quint. 4, 1, 17; Tac. A. 6, 10; cf.: in [[praesentia]] non quā [[filius]] alicujus, sed quā [[homo]], aestimatur, Dig. 35, 2, 63.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In [[what]] [[manner]], [[how]], by [[what]] [[method]]; to [[what]] [[degree]] or [[extent]]: [[quominus]] ei liceat eādem illā facultate et copiā vagari, quā velit, Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 70: [[numquid]] [[tute]] prospexti [[tibi]], Quid fieret? quā fieret? Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 56 (id est: quā ratione, quo [[modo]] fieret, [[Don]].); cf. id. ib. 4, 4, 18: quā facere id possis, nostram [[nunc]] accipe mentem, Verg. A. 1,676: coëant in foedera dextrae, Quā datur, Verg. A. 11, 293 Forbig. ad loc.: [[ante]] [[praedico]], M. Antonium [[delectus]], quā possit, habiturum, in [[whatever]] [[manner]], Cic. Phil. 6, 3, 5: veterem tutare sodalem, Quā [[licet]], Ov. P. 2, 4, 33: quā [[licet]] et [[possum]], [[luctor]] celare furorem, id. H. 15 (16), 235: quā [[populus]] laboret, Hor. C. 3, 8, 25.
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