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|lshtext=<b>quam-quam</b>: (quan-),<br /><b>I</b> conj., [[though]], [[although]], [[albeit]]; [[ante]]-[[class]]. [[always]], and in [[class]]. [[prose]] [[regularly]] joined [[with]] indic.; by Cic. [[rarely]] [[with]] the subj., and usu. [[when]] the [[general]] [[idea]] would [[demand]] the subj. (as potential, conditional, [[consecutive]], etc.; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 574; Madv. § 361, A, 3; and v. esp. Fischer, Gram. 2, p. 696 sq.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With indic.: [[quamquam]] blandā voce vocabam, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 41 (Ann. v. 50 Vahl.): [[quamquam]] [[libenter]] escis alienis studes, Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 8; id. Mil. 4, 8, 44: [[quamquam]] est [[scelestus]], Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 5: [[quamquam]] id est [[minime]] probandum, Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 42; 1, 4, 7; id. Ac. 2, 6, 16; 1, 9, 34: [[quamquam]] non venit ad finem tam [[audax]] [[inceptum]], [[tamen]], etc., Liv. 10, 32: Romani, [[quamquam]] fessi erant, Sall. J. 53: [[quamquam]] festinas, non est [[mora]] longa, Hor. C. 1, 28, 35 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With subj.: [[quamquam]] [[illa]] ipsa [[exclamatio]] Non potest [[melius]] [[sit]] velim crebra, Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 101: [[quamquam]] sint in quibusdam malis, [[tamen]], etc., id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85: [[quamquam]] ne id [[quidem]] suspicionem coitionis habuerit, [[although]] [[even]] [[that]] gave [[rise]] to no [[suspicion]], id. Planc. 22, 53; id. de Or. 2, 1, 1: Romanis, [[quamquam]] [[procul]] a patriā pugnarent, etc., Liv. 23, 29, 7: [[quamquam]] nonnullis leve [[visum]] iri putem, Nep. Att. 13. 6: [[quamquam]] moveretur his vocibus, Liv. 36, 34, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf. id. 6, 9, 6; 45, 17, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ellipt., [[with]] an adj. or [[part]].: [[bellum]] [[atque]] [[arma]], [[quamquam]] [[vobis]] invisa, [[tamen]] [[quia]] Lepido placent, sumenda sunt, Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 48, 2: acri viro, et [[quamquam]] advorso populi partium, famá [[tamen]] aequabili, id. J. 43, 1 Dietsch: omnia [[illa]], [[quamquam]] expetenda, etc., Cic. Fin. 5, 23, 68: curam adhibere, [[quamquam]] difficili in re, id. Fam. 2, 7, 3; 5, 3, 4; Liv. 4, 53, 1 Weissenb. ad loc.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With a subj.-[[clause]]: [[quamquam]] ne impudicitiam [[quidem]] [[nunc]] abesse Pallante [[adultero]], Tac. A. 12, 65, 3.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic., as a [[rhetor]]. [[particle]] of [[transition]], inobjections made by the [[speaker]] [[himself]], [[although]], [[however]], [[yet]], [[nevertheless]], [[notwithstanding]]: [[quamquam]], quem potissimum Herculem colamus, scire [[sane]] velim, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42: [[quamquam]] [[quid]] [[loquor]], id. Cat. 1, 9, 22: [[quamquam]] te [[quidem]] [[quid]] hoc doceam, id. de Or. 2, 47, 197; id. Phil. 2, 16, 42: [[quamquam]] o! sed superent, etc., Verg. A. 5, 195.

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