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  • 1 quaero

    quaero (old orthogr. QVAIRO, Epitaphs of the Scipios, 6; for the original form and etym. quaeso, ĕre, v. quaeso), sīvi or sĭi, sītum, 3, v. a., to seek.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.: aliquem, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 43 Vahl.); Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 3:

    te ipsum quaerebam,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 8, 3:

    escam in sterquilinio,

    Phaedr. 3, 12 init. —
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To seek to get or procure, to seek or search for a thing, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 38:

    rem mercaturis faciendis,

    Cic. Par. 6, 2, 46.— Absol.:

    contrivi in quaerendo vitam atque aetatem meam,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 15; 5, 3, 27; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 57; id. A. P. 170.—
    b.
    Transf., to get, procure, obtain, acquire a thing:

    uxores liberorum quaerendorum causā ducere,

    Suet. Caes. 52:

    liberorum quaerundorum causā ei uxor data est,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 109; cf.:

    quaerunt litterae hae sibi liberos,

    id. Ps. 1, 1, 21.—
    2.
    To seek for something missing, to miss:

    Siciliam in uberrimā Siciliae parte,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 47:

    optatos Tyndaridas,

    Prop. 1, 17, 18:

    Phoebi comam,

    Tib. 2, 3, 20:

    amnes,

    Stat. Th. 4, 703.—
    3.
    To ask, desire, with ut and subj.:

    quaeris ut suscipiam cogitationem quidnam istis agendum putem,

    Cic. Att. 14, 20, 4.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to seek, i. e. to think over, meditate, aim at, plan a thing:

    dum id quaero, tibi qui filium restituerem,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 83:

    quonam modo maxime ulti sanguinem nostrum pereamus,

    Sall. C. 33,5:

    fugam,

    Cic. Att. 7, 17, 1; id. Mur. 37, 80:

    sibi remedium ad rem aliquam,

    id. Clu. 9, 27:

    de gratiā quid significares, mecum ipse quaerebam,

    id. Att. 9, 11, A, 1.—With inf.:

    tristitiae causam si quis cognoscere quaerit,

    seeks, strives, endeavors, Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 7; id. Am. 1, 8, 51; Hor. C. 3, 4, 39; id. Ep. 1, 1, 2 al.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To look for, seek to gain any thing; to get, acquire, obtain, procure:

    laudem sibi,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 74:

    salutem alicui malo,

    id. Ad. 3, 2, 2:

    negabant ullā aliā in re nisi in naturā quaerendum esse illud summum bonum,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 19:

    pudentem exitum suae impudentiae,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 1, § 2:

    invidiam in aliquem,

    id. Rab. Post. 17, 46. —
    2.
    Of inanim. and abstr. subjects, to demand, need, require, = requirere:

    quod cujusquam oratoris eloquentiam quaereret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 29:

    lites ex limitibus judicem quaerant,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15, 1:

    bellum dictatoriam majestatem quaesivisset,

    Liv. 8, 30:

    quaerit Boeotia Dircen,

    Ov. M. 2, 239. —
    3.
    To seek to learn from any one; to ask, inquire, interrogate (cf.: interrogo, percontor).
    (α).
    With ab:

    cum ab iis saepius quaereret,

    made inquiries, Caes. B. G. 1, 32:

    quaero abs te nunc, Hortensi, cum, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83, § 191:

    quaesivit a medicis, quemadmodum se haberet,

    Nep. Dion, 2, 4:

    a quo cum quaesisset, quo se deduci vellet,

    id. Epam. 4, 5; cf. Cic. N. D. 1, 22, 60. —
    (β).
    With de:

    quaerebat paulo ante de me, quid, etc.,

    Cic. Pis. 9, 18:

    de te ipso quaero, Vatini, utrum, etc.,

    id. Vatin. 4, 10:

    quaero de te, arbitrerisne, etc.,

    Liv. 4, 40:

    cura tibi de quo quaerere nulla fuit,

    Ov. P. 4, 3, 18.—
    (γ).
    With ex:

    quaesivi ex Phaniā, quam in partem provinciae putaret, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 1:

    quaerit ex solo ea, quae, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 18.—
    (δ).
    With a rel.-clause:

    ille baro te putabat quaesiturum, unum caelum esset an innumerabilia,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 3:

    natura fieret laudabile carmen, an arte, Quaesitum est,

    Hor. A. P. 409:

    quaeritur inter medicos, cujus generis aquae sint utilissimae,

    Plin. 31, 3, 21, § 31.—
    4. a.
    With inf. (post-Aug.):

    e monte aliquo in alium transilire quaerens,

    Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 214:

    qui mutare sedes quaerebant,

    Tac. G. 2.—
    b.
    Transf., of animals, plants, etc., to desire, prefer, seek:

    salictum et harundinetum... umidum locum quaerunt,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 5:

    glires aridum locum quaerunt,

    id. ib. 3, 15, 2; Col. 1, praef. §

    26: lupinum quaerit maxime sabulosa,

    Plin. 18, 14, 36, § 134;

    so of the soil: ager aquosus plus stercoris quaerit,

    demands, Pall. 1, 6, 15.—
    5.
    To examine or inquire into judicially, to investigate, institute an investigation; with [p. 1502] acc. (rare):

    hunc abduce, vinci, rem quaere,

    Ter. Ad. 3 (4), 36:

    non dubitabat Minucius, quin iste (Verres) illo die rem illam quaesiturus non esset,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 29, § 72. —With de and abl. (class.; cf.

    Krebs, Autibarb. p. 962 sq.): de pecuniis repetundis,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 9, 27:

    de morte alicujus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 41, 119:

    de servo in dominum,

    to question by torture, put to the rack, id. Mil. 22, 59:

    aliquid per tormenta,

    Suet. Tib. 58:

    legibus,

    to investigate according to the laws, impartially, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 3. —
    b.
    Transf.: si quaeris, si quaerimus (prop., if we, or you, look well into the matter; if we, or you, would know the truth), to say the truth, in fact, to speak honestly:

    omnino, si quaeris, ludi apparatissimi,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2:

    at sunt morosi, et anxii, et difficiles senes: si quaerimus, etiam avari,

    id. Sen. 18, 65:

    si quaeritis,

    id. de Or. 2, 62, 254; so,

    too, si verum quaeris,

    id. Fam. 12, 8, 1:

    si verum quaeritis,

    id. de Or. 2, 34, 146:

    si verum quaerimus,

    id. Tusc. 2, 23, 55: noli quaerere or quid quaeris? in short, in one word:

    noli quaerere: ita mihi pulcher hic dies visus est,

    id. Fam. 4, 4, 3:

    quid quaeris? biduo factus est mihi familiaris,

    id. ib. 3, 1, 2.— Hence, quaesītus, a, um, P. a., sought out.
    A.
    In a good sense, select, special, extraordinary (mostly post-Aug.): epulae quaesitissumae, Sall. ap. Macr. S. 2, 9, 9 (Sall. H. 2, 23, 4 Dietsch); comp.:

    leges quaesitiores (opp. simplices),

    Tac. A. 3, 26:

    quaesitior adulatio,

    id. ib. 3, 57.— Sup.:

    quaesitissimi honores,

    Tac. A. 2, 53.—
    B.
    In a bad sense (opp. to what is natural), far-fetched, studied, affected, assumed (class.):

    vitabit etiam quaesita nec ex tempore ficta, sed domo allata, quae plerumque sunt frigida,

    Cic. Or. 26, 89:

    ut numerus non quaesitus, sed ipse secutus esse videatur,

    id. ib. 65, 219:

    comitas,

    Tac. A. 6, 50:

    asperitas,

    id. ib. 5, 3.—
    C.
    Subst.: quaesītum, i, n.
    1.
    A question ( poet.):

    accipe quaesiti causam,

    Ov. M. 4, 793; id. F. 1, 278; Hor. S. 2, 6, 82.—
    2.
    A question as a rhetorical figure, = pusma, Mart. Cap. 5, § 524.

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  • 2 quaestio

    quaestĭo, ōnis, f. [quaero], a seeking.
    I.
    In gen. (Plautin.):

    cave, fuas mi in quaestione,

    lest you suffer yourself to be to seek, lest I have to look after you, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 52:

    tibi ne in quaestione essemus,

    id. Capt. 2, 2, 3; id. Ps. 2, 2, 68.—
    II.
    In partic., an inquiry, investigation, a questioning, question, subject of inquiry:

    quaestio est appetitio cognitionis, quaestionisque finis inventio,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 8, 26; 2, 36, 115:

    quae veri simillima (sententia sit), magna quaestio est,

    id. Tusc. 1, 11, 23; id. Fin. 2, 11, 34:

    rem in disceptationem quaestionemque vocare,

    to investigate, id. de Or. 3, 32, 129:

    res in quaestione versatur,

    is under investigation, id. Clu. 58, 159:

    de moribus ultima fiet quaestio,

    Juv. 3, 141:

    res in quaestionem venit,

    comes under investigation, Quint. 5, 14, 16:

    modo aliquam quaestionem poëticam ei proponeret,

    Nep. Att. 20, 2; cf. Cic. Att. 7, 19 fin.; Sen. Ben. 5, 8, 6; id. Ep. 48, 1; Suet. Tib. 56:

    quaestionem instituere,

    to institute an investigation, Quint. 7, 1, 6:

    quaestionem solvere,

    Sen. Ep. 48, 11; Quint. 5, 10, 26.—
    2.
    A public judicial investigation, examination by torture, a criminal inquiry, inquisition; the crime is usu. constr. with de:

    cum praetor quaestionem inter sicarios exercuisset,

    instituted a trial for assassination, Cic. Fin. 2, 16, 54:

    verberibus ac tormentis quaestionem habuit pecuniae publicae,

    id. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

    quaestionem mortis paternae de servis paternis habere,

    id. Rosc. Am. 28, 78:

    quaestionem fugitare,

    id. ib. 28, 78:

    servos in quaestionem polliceri,

    id. ib. 28, 77:

    quaestionem ferre in aliquem,

    to appoint, institute, make a motion for, id. de Or. 1, 53, 227:

    habere ex aliquo,

    Liv. 33, 28:

    facere alicui,

    against any one, Dig. 34, 3, 20:

    quaestionem de furto constituere,

    Cic. Clu. 64, 181:

    quaestionem instituere de morte alicujus,

    id. ib. 64, 181:

    quaestionem de morte viri habere,

    id. ib. 65, 182;

    63, 176: quaestionem habere de servis in caput filii,

    id. ib. 63, 176:

    ad quaestionem abripi,

    to examination by torture, id. ib. 33, 89:

    alicui servum in quaestionem ferre,

    id. ib. 64, 181:

    postulare servum in quaestionem,

    id. ib. 64, 181:

    quaestiones severius exercere,

    Liv. 9, 34:

    quaestioni praeesse,

    to conduct a trial as judge, Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 11: quaestiones perpetuae, the inquisitions concerning certain crimes (repetundarum, majestatis, de falso, de sicariis, de injuriis, etc.), conducted annually, after 605 A. U. C., by a standing commission, and presided over by the prætor, Cic. Brut. 27, 106:

    judex quaestionis,

    the director of the criminal court under the presidency of the prætor, id. Clu. 54, 148; 33, 89; id. Brut. 76, 264:

    quaestiones extraordinariae,

    trials out of the common course, held under a special commission, Liv. 39, 14; so,

    quaestio nova,

    Cic. Mil. 5, 13:

    A QVAESTIONIBVS,

    an attendant in examinations, a torturer, inquisitor, Inscr. Grut. 545, 6; 560, 1. —
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    The court, the judges:

    dimittere eo tempore quaestionem,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30, § 74:

    totam quaestionem a severitate ad clementiam transtulit,

    Val. Max. 8, 1, 6.—
    2.
    The subject of investigation, the matter, case, question:

    perdifficilis et perobscura quaestio est de naturā deorum,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 1, 1:

    dividere totam de dis immortalibus quaestionem in partis quattuor,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 3:

    quaestio proposita,

    Quint. 9, 2, 39.—
    b.
    In partic., in rhet.
    (α).
    The rhetorical subject of debate: quaestionum duo sunt genera: alterum infinitum, alterum definitum. Definitum est, quod hupothesin Graeci, nos causam: infinitum, quod thesin illi appellant, nos propositum possumus nominare, Cic. Top. 21, 79. —
    (β).
    The main point in a disputed matter, the issue in a cause: quaestio est quae ex conflictione causarum gignitur controversia, hoc modo: Non jure fecisti: jure feci. Causarum autem haec est conflictio, in quā constitutio constat;

    ex eā igitur nascitur controversia, quam quaestionem dicimus, hoc modo: jurene fecerit,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 13, 18; cf. id. ib. 1, 6, 8.—
    (γ).
    A question, a disputed point, quaestio est, it is doubtful, may be disputed:

    sapientia efficit sapientis sola per se: beatos efficiat necne sola per se quaestio est,

    Cic. Top. 15, 60; id. Tusc. 4, 13, 29; id. Inv. 2, 20, 60:

    quaestio est, an, etc.,

    Quint. 7, 3, 22; cf.:

    nulla quaestio est,

    Aug. Retract. 1, 19, 6; cf.

    also: in quaestione est,

    Plin. 11, 17, 18, § 57; 10, 22, 27, § 52:

    quaestionis est immensae,

    id. 7, 28, 29, § 101; 28, 2, 3, § 10.

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  • 3 quaestiō

        quaestiō ōnis, f    [QVAES-], a questioning, examination, inquiry, investigation: exploratā re quaestione captivorum, Cs.: rem in disceptationem quaestionemque vocare, to investigate: res in quaestione versatur, is under investigation: de moribus ultima fiet quaestio, Iu.— A judicial investigation, examination by torture, criminal inquiry, inquisition: cum praetor quaestionem inter sicarios exercuisset, conducted a trial for assassination: mortis paternae de servis paternis quaestionem habere: quaestionem in eum ferre, demand his prosecution: placuit quaestionem ex his haberi, L.: instituta de morte: ad quaestionem abripi, to the torture: illum in quaestionem postulavit: quaestiones severius exercere, L.: quaestioni praeesse, to sit as judge: tabellae quaestionis, records of testimony at an examination: quaestiones perpetuae, standing commissions of criminal investigation: iudex quaestionis (i. e. quaesitor): quaestiones extraordinariae, investigations by special commission, L.: dimittere eo tempore quaestionem, i. e. the court.—A question, subject of investigation, matter, case, cause, dispute, difficulty, inquiry: quae (sententia) viri simillima, magna quaestio est: perdifficilis de naturā deorum: de moribus ultima fiet Quaestio, Iu.: beatos efficiat (sapientia) necne quaestio est, may be disputed.—The record of a judicial inquiry, minutes of evidence: hanc fictam quaestionem conscripisse.
    * * *
    questioning, inquiry; investigation

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  • 4 quaerō

        quaerō sīvī, sītus, ere    [QVAES-], to seek, look for: quaerenti (deae) defuit orbis, O.: te ipsum quaerebam, was looking for, T.: suos notos, Cs.: ab ostio quaerens Ennium, asking for: cum praetor quaereretur: quem quaeritis, adsum, V.: liberi ad necem quaerebantur: escam in sterquilinio, Ph.: per imas Quaerit iter vallīs (Ufens), V.: cauda colubrae... moriens dominae vestigia quaerit, O.— To seek to obtain, look for, strive for, seek: sibi alium imperatorem, S.: in regnum quaeritur heres, V.: milites ducem quaerentes: in eum invidia quaesita est, i. e. prejudice is excited: ad ornatum ludorum aurum: regia potestas hac lege quaeritur: ne quaeratur latebra periurio: voce pericula, provoke, O.: defensorem suae salutis eum.—With inf, to seek, strive, endeavor, ask: ne quaere doceri Quam poenam, etc., V.: Antequam... speciosa quaero Pascere tigrīs, i. e. let me rather, H.: classibus advehebantur, qui mutare sedes quaerebant, Ta.— To strive to gain, earn, win by effort, acquire: Conserva, quaere, parce, T.: Quaerit ac timet uti, H.: victum volgo, T.: confiteri sibi quaesito opus esse, that he must earn something.—To feel the want of, miss, lack: Siciliam in uberrimā Siciliae parte: ne ille saepe Persas et Indos quaesisset, L.: quaerit Boeotia Dircen, O.— To ask, desire, require, demand, need, call for: quid sibi hic vestitus quaerit? i. e. what do you mean by? T.: collis pauca munimenta quaerebat, S.: qui tumultus dictatoriam maiestatem quaesisset, made necessary, L.: nego esse quicquam, quod cuiusquam oratoris eloquentiam quaereret: quaeris ut suscipiam cogitationem, quidnam istis agendum putem.—Fig., to seek mentally, think over, meditate, aim at, plan, devise, find: consilium, T.: quonam modo maxime ulti sanguinem nostrum pereamus, S.: remedium: rationes eas, quae ex coniecturā pendent.— To seek to learn, make inquiry, ask, inquire, interrogate: item alio die Quaerebam, T.: quaerendo cognoveram: vide, quaere, circumspice!: quaesiturus, unum caelum esset an innumerabilia: Naturā fieret laudabile carmen, an arte, Quaesitum est, has been made a question, H.: cum ab iis saepius quaereret, made inquiries, Cs.: quaero abs te nunc, Hortensi, cum, etc.: quaesivit a medicis, quem a modum se haberet, N.: quaero de te, num, etc.: Cura tibi de quo quaerere nulla fuit, O.: in dominos quaeri de servis iniquom est, i. e. to examine under torture: quaerit ex solo ea, quae, etc., Cs.: habes, quod ex me quaesisti.— To examine, inquire into, make inquiry, investigate: coëgit consules circa fora proficisci ibique quaerere, L.: hunc abduce, vinci, quaere rem, T.: scrutatus sum quae potui et quaesivi omnia: rem illam: quorum de naturā Caesar cum quaereret, sic reperiebat, Cs.—Esp., of judicial investigation: de pecuniis repetundis: dum de patris morte quaereretur: ut veteribus legibus, tantum modo extra ordinem, quaereretur, the investigation should be made.—In parenthet. clauses, to inquire, consider: omnino, si quaeris, ludi apparatissimi: noli quaerere: ita mihi pulcher hic dies visus est, in short: si verum quaeritis, to speak the truth: si verum quaerimus.
    * * *
    quaerere, quaesivi, quaesitus V
    search for, seek, strive for; obtain; ask, inquire, demand

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  • 5 quaesitio

    quaesītĭo, ōnis, f. [quaero], a seeking or searching after (post-Aug.).
    I.
    In gen.:

    Psyche quaesitioni Cupidinis intenta, populos circuibat,

    App. M. 5, p. 171, 8.—
    II.
    In partic., a questioning by torture, the question, inquisition:

    cum postero ad quaesitionem retraheretur, proripuit se custodibus,

    Tac. A. 4, 45; Inscr. Bertol. Antiq. Aquilei. p. 300, n. 419.

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  • 6 quaestiono

    quaestĭōno, āvi, 1, v. a. [id.], put to the question, i. e. put to the torture, put to the rack (eccl. Lat. and rare): omnes quaestionari, Fragm. Jur. Civ. Ante-Just. p. 109 Mai:

    tot confessores quaestionati et torti,

    Cypr. Ep. 69, n. 6.

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