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quivis

quivis, whoever it be, whom you please, any one, any whatever, anything

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non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum
not everyone happens to go to Corinth

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

quīvīs, quaevīs, quodvīs, or (subst.) quidvīs: (indef. pron.), who or what thou pleasest; any whatever, any, 8.577.

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quiuis Indefinite pronoun: masculine nominative singular, Indefinite pronoun: masculine nominative plural of quivis

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quī-vīs, quaevis, quodvis (abl. quīvis, Ter. Ad. 254), and
  • subst. quidvis, pron. indef. (separated: quod genus vis propagabis, Cato R. R. 52), who or what you please, any whatever, any one, any thing: Juppiter non minus, quam vostrum quivis, formidat malum, Plaut. Am. prol. 27: quaevis alia mora, id. Mil. 4, 7, 10 (1293): omnia sunt ejusmodi, quivis ut perspicere possit, etc., Cic. Quint. 27, 84: ad quemvis numerum ephippiatorum equitum quamvis pauci adire audent, Caes. B. G. 4, 2: quaevis amplificationes, all sorts of, Cic. Inv. 1, 53, 100: unus amet quāvis aspergere cunctos, i. e. quāvis ratione, Hor. S. 1, 4, 87: ab quīvis (abl.) homine beneficium accipere gaudeas, Ter. Ad. 254: cujusvis opes voluisse contra illius potentiam crescere, Sall. C. 17, 7: quovis modo inceptum perficere, id. J. 11, 9; 35, 4: quovis sermone molestus, Hor. S. 1, 3, 65: eripiet quivis oculos citius, id. ib. 2, 5, 35.—Joined with unus, any one you please, any one whatever: una harum quaevis causa, Ter. And. 904: si tu solus, aut quivis unus, Cic. Caecin. 22, 62: non quivis unus ex populo, sed existimator doctus, id. Brut. 93, 320. — quidvīs, as subst., any thing whatever, no matter what: dicere hic quidvis licet, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 31 (884): quidvis satis est, Ter. Heaut. 641; Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 28 (437): si quidvis satis est, Hor. S. 2, 3, 127.— With gen.: quidvis anni, i.e. at any season of the year, Cato R. R. 17.

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