alicubi

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ălĭcŭbi (earlier written ălĭquobi, like neutrobi, acc. to Cassiod. Orth. 2314 P.; cf. Schneid. Gr. 1, 29), adv. [aliquis-ubi], somewhere, anywhere, at any place, or in any thing (Inter alicubi et usquam hoc interest, quod alicubi absolute profertur, ut alicubi fuimus, i. e. in aliquo loco; usquam autem ad omnia loca refertur, Prisc. p. 1058 P.; very rare): si salvus sit Pompeius et constiterit alicubi, hanc νεκυίαν relinquas, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10.

I In gen.: tu si alicubi fueris, dices hic porcos coctos ambulare, if you shall be anywhere , i. e. wherever you may be , Petr. 45.—

II Esp.

A Alicubi ... alicubi, repeated, in one place ... in another , here ... there , like alius, alias, alibi, etc.: ut alicubi obstes tibi, alicubi irascaris, alicubi instes gravius, Sen. Tranq. 2, 2: tecta alicubi imposita montibus, alicubi ex plano in altitudinem montium educta, id. Ep. 89, 21 (in both passages some read aliubi; v. Fickert).—

B Strengthened by other definite words: utinam hic prope adesset alicubi, somewhere here , Ter. Ad. 453: hic alicubi in Crustumenio, Cic. Fl. 29, 71: in quibus (scriptis) et suum alicubi reperiri nomen, Suet. Gram. 7.

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