alicunde

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

ălĭcunde, adv., of place [aliquis-unde], from somewhere = ab aliquo loco, Gr. ἀμόθεν.

I Lit.: tu mihi aliquid aliquo modo alicunde ab aliquibus blatis, Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 13; cf. verse 10: venit meditatus alicunde ex solo loco, Ter. And. 406: aliunde fluens alicunde extrinsecus aër, streaming from some part from another source , * Lucr. 5, 522: praecipitare alicunde, Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31; so id. Caecin. 16, 46. —

II Transf.

A Of persons: alicunde exora mutuum, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 44: non quaesivit procul alicunde. Cic. Verr. 2, 20, 48.—Hence, alicunde corradere, to scrape together from some source , Ter. Ad. 242, and alicunde sumere, to get from somebody , i. e. to borrow from some one , id. Phorm. 300.—

B Of things: nos omnes, quibus est alicunde aliquis objectuslabor, from any thing , Ter. Hec. 286. (In Cic. Att. 10, 1, 3, B. and K. read aliunde for alicunde.

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