quă-propter (in tmesi: qua me propter adduxi, Ter. Hec. 364), adv. [qui-propter], for what, wherefore, why.
I Interrog. (ante- and post-class.): quapropter id vos factum suspicamini? Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 52: Tra. Quāpropter? Theo. Quia, etc., id. ib. 3, 2, 140: parumper opperire me hic: My. Quapropter? Ter. And. 714.—
B Indirect: sed quid est quapropter nobis vos malum minitamini? Plaut. Bacch. 5, 4, 25: credo te non nihil mirari, Quid sit, quapropter te huc foras puerum evocare jussi, Ter. Hec. 732: interrogatus quapropter vellet, etc., Val. Max. 8, 13, ext. 2. —
II Transf., in passing to a new thought, wherefore , on which account (class.): quapropter hoc dicam, numquam, etc., Cic. Caecin. 27, 78; Ter. Heaut. 357; id. Ad. 342; Val. Max. 6, 4, 4 al.