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inquam
inquam (the foll. forms are found: inquam and inquit very freq.; v. infra; first pers., inquio, fo...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
inquam
defect.(only praes: inquam, inquis, inquit, inquimus, inquiunt;imperf.inquiēbat; perf.inquiī, inquīstī; fut.inquiēs, inquiet; imper.inque), to say (after one or more words of a quotation): Sy. eccum me inque. Cl. eccum hic tibi, T.: desilite, inquit, milites, Cs.: te ipso, inquam, teste: qui ubi me viderunt, ubi sunt, inquiunt, scyphi?: Romulus, Iuppiter, inquit, tuis iussus avibus, etc., L.: macte . . . inquit sententia Catonis, H.: ne faciam, inquis, Omnino versūs? (i. e. facias), H.: tum Quinctius, en, inquit mihi, haec ego patior cottidie.—In emphatic repetition, I say, I insist: in foro, ne quis . . . in foro, inquam, Syracusis: tuas, tuas, inquam, suspiciones; cf. ad te, inquam, H.—Plur, they say, it is said: noluit, inquiunt, hodie agere Roscius.—Sing., introducing an objection, it is said, one says, reply is made: nondum gustaverat, inquit, vitae suavitatem (sc. aliquis): ut purpurā fulgeamus, inquit, L.: non nosti quid, inquit, Chrysippus dicat, H.—Repeated, or with other verbs of saying: hoc adiunxit: Pater, inquit, meus, N.: dicam equidem, Caesar inquit, quid intellegam; vos inquit, mementote.
inquam (the foll. forms are found: inquam and inquit very freq.; v. infra; first pers., inquio, fo...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.