quicumque: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>quīcumque</b>: (or -[[cunque]]), quaecumque, quodcumque (also [[separately]]:<br /><b>I</b> cum quibus erat [[cumque]] una, Ter. And. 1, 1, 36; [[quam]] se [[cumque]] in partem, Cic. de Or. 3, 16, 59. — Old form of the plur. [[quescumque]], [[Cato]] ap. [[Charis]]. p. 70 P., and ap. Prisc. p. 960 P.), pron. rel.<br /><b>I</b> Whoever, [[whatever]], [[whosoever]], [[whatsoever]], [[every]] one [[who]], [[every]] [[thing]] [[that]], all [[that]] ([[class]].): [[quicumque]] is est, ei me, etc., [[whosoever]], Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 8: quoscumque de te queri audivi, quācumque potui ratione placavi, whomsoever I [[have]] [[heard]] [[complaining]], [[them]] I [[have]] [[satisfied]] in [[every]] [[possible]] [[way]], id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 4: petere fortunam, quaecumque accidat, [[what]] [[fortune]] [[soever]], Caes. B. G. 1, 31: ut quodcumque vellet, liceret facere, Nep. Dat. 10, 1.—Rarely [[with]] subj. in orat. rect.: [[quocumque]] haec [[modo]] se habeant, Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 114.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol. (Cic., Cæs., and Sall. [[always]] [[construe]] [[quicumque]] as rel. [[with]] its [[own]] [[verb]], [[except]] in abl. [[sing]].;<br /> v. [[infra]]; as absol. for [[quivis]] or [[quilibet]], freq. in Liv. and [[post]]-Aug. writers; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 706), [[any]] [[whatever]], etc.: te [[audio]] ([[libenter]]) quācumque de re, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8 (10), 1: qui quācumque de causā ad eos venerunt, Caes. B. C. 6, 23: [[quocumque]] [[modo]], Sall. J. 103, 3: laeti quamcunque condicionem paciscendi acceperunt, Liv. 22, 58, 5: [[ubicumque]] et quācumque matre [[genitus]], id. 1, 3, 3: qui de quācumque causā tum aspernati nostra auxilia estis, id. 45, 23, 6: quācumque condicione [[arma]] viris auferre, id. 9, 9, 11: [[quocumque]] gladiatorio munere prolapsi, Suet. Claud. 34: Ciceronem cuicunque eorum opponere, Quint. 10, 1, 105. —In neutr. subst., [[with]] gen., [[whatever]], [[however]] [[much]]: quodcumque est lucri, i. e. all the [[profit]], Phaedr. 5, 6, 3: quodcumque militum contrahere poteritis, as [[many]] [[troops]] as [[ever]] [[you]] can [[bring]] [[together]], Pompon. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, A, 4: quodcunque hoc regni, all this [[authority]], Verg. A. 1, 78.—When the rel. occurs [[twice]] or oftener in the [[same]] [[connection]], [[only]] qui is [[repeated]]: quaecunque [[navis]] ex Asiā, quae ex Syriā, quae, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 145: hoc quodcumque vides, Prop. 4, 1, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., for [[qualiscumque]], [[howsoever]] constituted, of [[whatever]] [[kind]]: quaecumque [[mens]] [[illa]] fuit, Gabinii fuit, Cic. Rab. Post. 8, 21. —<br /><b>II</b> Transf., [[each]] or [[every]] [[possible]], [[each]], [[every]], all: quae sanari poterunt, quācumque ratione sanabo, in [[every]] [[possible]] [[way]], Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 11: et [[quocumque]] [[modo]] maluit esse mea, under all circumstances, Prop. 1, 8, 34 (1, 8, b, 8): de quācumque causā, Liv. 45, 23.