quapropter
νόησε δὲ δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς σαίνοντάς τε κύνας, περί τε κτύπος ἦλθε ποδοῖιν → godly Odysseus heard the fawning of dogs, and on top of that came the beat of two feet
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
quă-propter: (in tmesi:
I qua me propter adduxi, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 4), adv. qui-propter, for what, wherefore, why.
I 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.—
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. —
II 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.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
quāproptĕr,¹⁰
1 adv. a) interr., pourquoi : quapropter ? — quia... Pl. Most. 825, pourquoi ? — parce que...; [indir.] indic. Pl. Men. 714 ; subj. Amph. 86 ; b) relatif : quid est quapropter minitamini ? Pl. Bacch. 1144, quelle est la raison pour laquelle vous menacez ? cf. Ter. Hec. 733
2 [conj. de coord.], c’est pourquoi : Ter. Haut. 357 ; Ad. 342 ; Cic. Cæc. 34 ; Phil. 6, 17, etc.
