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{{LaEn
|lnetxt=quapropter ADV :: wherefore, why, for what?
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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>quă-propter</b>: (in tmesi:<br /><b>I</b> [[qua]] me [[propter]] adduxi, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 4), adv. qui-[[propter]], for [[what]], [[wherefore]], [[why]].<br /><b>I</b> Interrog. ([[ante]]- and post-class.): [[quapropter]] id vos [[factum]] suspicamini? Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 52: Tra. Quāpropter? Theo. Quia, etc., id. ib. 3, 2, 140: [[parumper]] opperire me hic: My. Quapropter? Ter. And. 4, 2, 31.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Indirect: sed [[quid]] est [[quapropter]] nobis vos [[malum]] minitamini? Plaut. Bacch. 5, 4, 25: [[credo]] te non [[nihil]] mirari, Quid [[sit]], [[quapropter]] te huc [[foras]] puerum evocare jussi, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 6: interrogatus [[quapropter]] vellet, etc., Val. Max. 8, 13, ext. 2. —<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in [[passing]] to a [[new]] [[thought]], [[wherefore]], on [[which]] [[account]] ([[class]].): [[quapropter]] hoc dicam, [[numquam]], etc., Cic. Caecin. 27, 78; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 116; id. Ad. 3, 2, 44; Val. Max. 6, 4, 4 al.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>quāproptĕr</b>,¹⁰<br /><b>1</b> adv. <b> a)</b> interr., pourquoi : [[quapropter]] ? — [[quia]]... Pl. Most. 825, pourquoi ? — parce que...; [indir.] [[indic]]. Pl. Men. 714 ; subj. Amph. 86 ; <b> b)</b> relatif : [[quid]] [[est]] [[quapropter]] minitamini ? Pl. Bacch. 1144, quelle [[est]] la raison pour laquelle vous menacez ? cf. Ter. Hec. 733<br /><b>2</b> [conj. de coord.], c’[[est]] pourquoi : Ter. Haut. 357 ; Ad. 342 ; Cic. Cæc. 34 ; Phil. 6, 17, etc. &#124;&#124; [tmèse] [[qua]]... [[propter]] Ter. Hec. 364.||[tmèse] [[qua]]... [[propter]] Ter. Hec. 364.
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{{Georges
|georg=quā-[[propter]], [[weswegen]], [[weshalb]], [[warum]], I) interrog.: [[non]] [[opus]] est. Ch. Quapropter? Ter.: in indirekter [[Frage]] u. [[zwar]] in der Tmesis, [[quid]] [[ego]] feci, [[qua]] [[istaec]] [[propter]] dicta dicantur [[mihi]], Plaut. – II) relat.: [[non]] tu scis, [[quapropter]] etc., Ter.: in der Tmesis, [[qua]] me [[propter]] [[eduxi]] [[foras]], Ter. – zum Anknüpfen eines konsekutiven Hauptsatzes, [[daher]], [[deswegen]], [[deshalb]], [[wie]] Lucr. 1, 127 u.a. (s. Holtze Synt. Lucr. p. 10). Ter. heaut. 357. Cic. Caecin. 78 u.a.
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{{LaZh
|lnztxt=quapropter. ''adv''. :: [[是以]]。[[何故]]
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