quam-lĭbet (-lŭbet), adv.
I As it pleases , as you ( they , etc.) will , at pleasure : quamlubet esto unica res, Lucr. 2, 541: lambe otio, Phaedr. 1, 24, 6.—
II In gen., how much soever , ever so much , howsoever : quodvis quamlibet tenue munusculum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3: occupat egressas quamlibet ante rates, Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 5: infirmae manus, howsoever weak , id. Am. 1, 7, 66: quamlibet parum sit, however inconsiderable it may be , Quint. 1, 1, 18; 1, 12, 5; 5, 13, 56; 12, 1, 29: specularis lapis finditur in quamlibet tenues crustas, Plin. 36, 22, 45, § 160; 3, 5, 9, § 54; 6, 4, 4, § 13: hoc pretio quamlibet numerosa subsellia inplentur, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 6; 10, 96 (97), 2; id. Pan. 61, 2: quamlibet pulchra elocutio, Quint. 2, 4, 32; 12, 8, 7; 8, 6, 4.—
B For quamvis, although (post-class.), Sol. 9.