quantus, a, um, adj. [quam],
I how great.
A Bellum, Nep. Dat. 5, 1: calamitates, Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 86: homo in dicendo, id. de Or. 2, 12, 51: gravitas, Vell. 2, 129, 2.—Corresp. with tantus : videre mihi videor tantam dimicationem, quanta numquam fuit, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 2.—With sup. : tanta est inter eos, quanta maxima esse potest, morum studiorumque distantia, the greatest possible difference , Cic. Lael. 20, 74.—Without tantus : quantus non unquam antea, exercitus venit, Liv. 9, 37, 2: quanta maxime poterat vi perculit, id. 9, 10, 10; cf. id. 7, 9, 8; 42, 15, 1; 24, 35, 5; Verg. A. 12, 701; 3, 641: quanta mea sapientia est, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 62.—Quantus quantus, for quantuscumque, how great or much soever (ante-class.): denegabit quantum quantum ad eum erit delatum, Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 28: tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es, Ter. Ad. 394: quanta quanta haec mea paupertas est, tamen, id. Phorm. 903. — In quantum, as far as , according as , in how far , in so far as , to whatever extent : in quantum satis erat, Tac. Or. 2: declamatio, in quantum maxime potest, imitetur eas actiones, Quint. 2, 10, 4; Sen. Ben. 2, 23, 1: pedum digitos, in quantum quaeque secuta est, Traxit, Ov. M. 11, 71: in quantum potuerit, as far as possible , Plin. Ep. 10, 75. — With a preceding in tantum , as greatly ... as : vir in tantum laudandus, in quantum intellegi virtus potest, Vell. 1, 9.—
B Of number, value, etc., how much , how many : quanta milia, Prop. 1, 5, 10; Val. Fl. 3, 261. —And with or without tantus , as much as , as many as , Caes. B. G. 6, 19; Liv. 23, 21.— As a designation of multitude, quantum = emphatic omnis: ut te quidem omnes di deaeque, quantum est, perduint, as many as there are of them , Ter. Heaut. 810: quantum in terra degit, hominum perjurissime! Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 117.— quantum , subst., with gen., as much of ... as : quantum est frumenti hornotini, exaraverunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 45.— Quanti, as gen. pretii, how high , how dear , or as dear as , as high as : quanti emi potest minime, how cheap? Ep. Ad quadraginta minas, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 110: quanti emit? Ter. Eun. 984: quanti locaverint, tantam pecuniam redemptori solvendam, Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 16: vide, quanti apud me sis, how highly I prize you , how dear you are to me , id. Fam. 7, 19 init. : noli spectare, quanti sit homo, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4: (tu) qui scias quanti Tulliam faciam, id. Fam. 2, 16, 5: quanti est ista hominum gloria, of how trifling worth , id. Rep. 6, 23, 25; cf. id. Tusc. 5, 37, 109: quanti est sapere! what a fine thing it is! Ter. Eun. 791: quanti ejus intersit, Dig. 43, 18, 3.—Quanti quanti, at whatever price : sed quanti quanti, bene emitur quod necesse est, Cic. Att. 12, 23, 3.—Quanto opere, sometimes as one word, quantopere (q. v.), with what care , how greatly , how much (answering to tanto opere or tantopere, so greatly , so much ): quanto se opere custodiant bestiae, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 126: quantoque opere ejus municipii causā laborarem, id. Fam. 13, 7, 1.—Hence,
A quantum , adv., as much as , so much as : scribe, quantum potes, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 7.—Quantum possum or potest, as soon as possible : domum me rursum, quantum potero, tantum recipiam, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 40: rescribas ad me, quantum potest, Cic. Att. 4, 13, 1: erus, quantum audio, uxore excidit, so far as I hear , Ter. And. 423: quantum suspicor, as far as I can conjecture , id. Eun. 142.—Quantum in or ad me, so far as concerns me : non igitur adhuc, quantum quidem in te est, intellego deos esse, i. e. for all you have shown to the contrary , Cic. N. D. 3, 7, 15; cf. id. Ac. 1, 2, 8: quantum ad Pirithoum, Phaedra pudica fuit, as far as concerned , with respect to , Ov. A. A. 1, 744: quantum ad jus attinet, Sen. Contr. 5, 34, 16; 3, 16, 1.—With compp. for quanto, the more , the greater , etc. (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 488, A, 2).—Followed by eo : quantum juniores patrum plebi se magis insinuabant, eo acrius contra tribuni tenebant, Liv. 3, 15, 2; 44, 7, 6; Col. 12, 23 init. —Followed by tanto : quantum augebatur militum numerus, tanto majore, etc., Liv. 5, 10, 5; 6, 38, 5; 27, 47, 11; cf. id. 32, 5, 1. — Also without a correl. : quantum ... et minus, Liv. 44, 36, 5.—
B quantō , adv., by how much , by as much as , according as , the : quanto diutius Abest, magis cupio tanto, the longer he is away , Ter. Heaut. 424: quanto gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores, Caes. B. G. 5, 44: quanto magis philosophi delectabunt, si, etc., how greatly , Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 10: quanto praeclarior vita, tanto, Sall. J. 85, 22 Kritz. — With verbs which contain the idea of comparison: Hannibalem tanto praestitisse ceteros imperatores prudentiā, quanto populus Romanus antecedebat fortitudine cunctas nationes, Nep. Hann. 1, 1.—With posit. : tanto acceptius in vulgum, quanto modicus privatis aedificationibus, inasmuch as , Tac. A. 6, 45: quanto frequenter impellitur, tanto firmiter roboratur, Lact. 5, 7, 9.—With ante , secus , aliud : quo minus exponam, quam multa ad me detulerit, quanto ante providerit, Cic. Sest. 3, 8: videtote, quanto secus ego fecerim, how differently , Cato ap. Charis. p. 192 P.: ut manifesto appareat, quanto sit aliud proximum esse, aliud secundum, Quint. 10, 1, 53.