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quisnam

quisnam, who then? who in the world? which, I insist? what, pray? (more pressing than quis)

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

quisnam (quīnam) (quīnam), quaenam, quidnam: (emphatic interrog. pron.), who, pray? what, pray? who? what? 3.338.

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Quemnam Interrogative pronoun: masculine accusative singular of quisnam

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quisnam, quaenam, quidnam, pron. interrog. [quis-nam], who, which, what pray (class.).
  • I In direct interrogation: quisnam igitur tuebitur P. Scipionis memoriam mortui? Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 36, § 80: sed earum artificem quem? Quemnam? id. ib. 2, 4, 3, § 5: cruciatur cor mihi et metuo. Ca. Quidnam id est? Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 45 (1169): sed quidnam Pamphilum exanimatum video? for what pray? why pray? Ter. And. 234; id. Ad. 305; id. And. 449: quisnam igitur liber? Hor. S. 2, 7, 83.— Sometimes joined, pleon., with num: num quidnam amplius tibi cum illā fuit? pray had you nothing further to do with her? Ter. And. 325: num quisnam praeterea? nemo est, any body else? Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 107: num quidnam, Crassus inquit, novi? is there any thing new? id. de Or. 2, 3, 13.— Sometimes separated: in aedibus quid tibi meis nam erat negoti? Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 13 (427): quid tu, malum, nam me retrahis? id. Rud. 4, 3, 8 (945); id. Bacch. 5, 1, 26 (1112).— Quisnam as fem.: quis ea est nam optuma? Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 16 (135).— In the poets nam sometimes stands before quis: nam quae haec anus est? Ter. Phorm. 732: nam quis te nostras Jussit adire domos? Verg. G. 4, 445. —
  • II In indirect discourse: reviso, quidnam Chaerea hic rerum gerat, Ter. Eun. 923: ut sciam num quidnam afferat, etc., id. And. 235: miserunt Delphos consultum, quidnam facerent de rebus suis, Nep. Them. 2.

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