See quin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "Why don't you shut up!",
"ref": "c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 84",
"text": "Quīn tū tacēs!",
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"english": "Why not prepare yourself?",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 1.47",
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"english": "He said, \"Why are we roaming through the fields waging war from village to village? Why don't we attack the cities and (their) walls?...\"",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 10.17",
"text": "'Quid per agrōs' inquit 'vagāmur vīcātim circumferentēs bellum? Quīn urbēs et moenia adgredimur?...'",
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"english": "GETA I've been sent to find and bring you back. ANTIPHO Well, here I am - grab me then! What are you waiting for?",
"ref": "161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Phormio 881",
"text": "GETA Ego sum missu(s) tē ut requīrerem atque addūcerem. ANTIPHO Em quīn ergō rape mē - quid cessās?",
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"english": "Even the inner pain, gone to the bones of the bleaters (i.e. the sheep)...",
"ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.457",
"text": "Quīn etiam īma dolor, bālantum lāpsus ad ossa...",
"translation": "Even the inner pain, gone to the bones of the bleaters (i.e. the sheep)...",
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"english": "He even predicted the outcomes of all his wars beforehand.",
"ref": "c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum Divi Augusti 96",
"text": "Quīn et bellōrum omnium ēventūs ante praesēnsit.",
"translation": "He even predicted the outcomes of all his wars beforehand.",
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"english": "SOSIA What the hell? Am I not Sosia, Amphitryon's slave? […] MERCURY What, your house?! SO. Yes, my house! MER. Why, but everything you've just said you've dreamt up: Amphitryon's Sosia is me!",
"ref": "c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitruo 410-411",
"text": "SOSIA Quid, malum, non sum ego servos Amphitruōnis Sōsia? […] MERCVRIVS Quid, domum vostram? SO. Ita enim vērō! MER. Quīn quae dīxistī modo omnia ēmentītu·s: equidem Sōsia Amphitruōnis sum!",
"translation": "SOSIA What the hell? Am I not Sosia, Amphitryon's slave? […] MERCURY What, your house?! SO. Yes, my house! MER. Why, but everything you've just said you've dreamt up: Amphitryon's Sosia is me!",
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"english": "AMPHITRYON What a strange story you're telling me! But have you seen my wife? SOSIA But I've been told to never ever enter the house! AM. Who told you not to?",
"ref": "c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitruo 616-617",
"text": "AMPHITRVO Nimia memorās mīra. Sed vīdistīn uxōrem meam? SOSIA Quīn intrō īre in aedīs numquam licitum est! AM. Quis tē prohibuit?",
"translation": "AMPHITRYON What a strange story you're telling me! But have you seen my wife? SOSIA But I've been told to never ever enter the house! AM. Who told you not to?",
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"english": "There is no one among you who doesn't understand the Roman people",
"ref": "80 BCE, Cicero, Pro Roscio Amerino 154",
"text": "Vestrum nēmō est quīn intellegat populum Rōmānum",
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"english": "Nor was there anyone among them who didn't think that the fate of all their fortunes rested on the outcome of that day.",
"ref": "c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili 2.5",
"text": "Neque erat quisquam omnium quīn in eius diēī cāsū suārum omnium fortūnārum ēventum cōnsistere existimāret.",
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"english": "I never go out so early, or come home so late, that I don't see you digging or […] on your farm.",
"ref": "163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 68 (complaining at an old man for working too much)",
"text": "Numquam tam māne ēgredior, neque tam vesperī domum revortor, quīn tē in fundō cōnspicer fodere aut […]",
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"english": "And no wind could blow that it wasn't favourable to them to some extent.",
"ref": "c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili 3.47",
"text": "Neque ūllus flāre ventus poterat quīn aliquā ex parte secundum cursum habērent.",
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"english": "not because I don't disagree with it, but because I judge you to be of the kind of wisdom where I wouldn't prefer my own opinion to yours",
"ref": "106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Ad Familiares 4.7",
"text": "nōn quīn ab eō ipse dissentiam, sed quod eā tē sapientiā esse iūdicem, ut meum cōnsilium nōn antepōnam tuō",
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"english": "not because the great city of Carthage doesn't deserve that even a philosopher should beg to be given an honor, but so that your generosity remained pure and irreproachable",
"ref": "c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Florida 16",
"text": "nōn quīn magnitūdō Carthāginis mereātur etiam a philosophō precem prō honōre, sed ut integrum et intemerātum esset vestrum beneficium",
"translation": "not because the great city of Carthage doesn't deserve that even a philosopher should beg to be given an honor, but so that your generosity remained pure and irreproachable",
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"english": "'The necessary', says Opillus Aurelius, 'is that which doesn't allow for delays, […] or that which one can't prevent from happening.'",
"ref": "2nd c. CE, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De Verborum Significatione",
"text": "\"Necessārium\" ait esse Opillus Aurēlius, in quō nōn sit cessandum, […] aut quod nōn possit prohibēre quīn fīat.",
"translation": "'The necessary', says Opillus Aurelius, 'is that which doesn't allow for delays, […] or that which one can't prevent from happening.'",
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"english": "And anything that my eyes desired, I did not deny to them. Nor did I withhold my heart from enjoying every pleasure...",
"ref": "c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Ecclesiastes.2.10",
"text": "Et omnia quae dēsīderāvērunt oculī meī, nōn negāvī eīs; nec prohibuī cor quīn omnī voluptāte fruerētur...",
"translation": "And anything that my eyes desired, I did not deny to them. Nor did I withhold my heart from enjoying every pleasure...",
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"english": "But Asahel did not want to stop pursuing him.",
"ref": "c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate 2 Samuelis.2.21",
"text": "Nōluit autem Asahel omittere quīn urgueret eum.",
"translation": "But Asahel did not want to stop pursuing him.",
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"english": "There's no doubt that I'll sorely regret this.",
"ref": "161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 997",
"text": "Nōn dubiumst quīn mī magnum ex hāc rē sit malum.",
"translation": "There's no doubt that I'll sorely regret this.",
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"english": "And Darius had no doubt that she [his wife] had been killed, because she had been unable to endure great offense, and so he shouted in a frenzy from the pain, \"What great crime have I committed, Alexander?!..\"",
"ref": "1st c. CE, Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.10.29",
"text": "Nec dubitāvit Dārēus quīn interfecta esset, quia nequīsset contumēliam perpetī, exclāmatque āmēns dolōre: \"Quod ego tantum nefās commīsī, Alexander?...\"",
"translation": "And Darius had no doubt that she [his wife] had been killed, because she had been unable to endure great offense, and so he shouted in a frenzy from the pain, \"What great crime have I committed, Alexander?!..\"",
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"english": "―Who do you want to support in his poverty? Speak to your father boldly.\n―Young Lesbonicus here, the son of Charmides, who lives over there. (points to it)\n―You mean the one who ate up what he had and what he didn’t have?",
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"translation": "―Who do you want to support in his poverty? Speak to your father boldly.\n―Young Lesbonicus here, the son of Charmides, who lives over there. (points to it)\n―You mean the one who ate up what he had and what he didn’t have?",
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"english": "SOSIA What the hell? Am I not Sosia, Amphitryon's slave? […] MERCURY What, your house?! SO. Yes, my house! MER. Why, but everything you've just said you've dreamt up: Amphitryon's Sosia is me!",
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"translation": "SOSIA What the hell? Am I not Sosia, Amphitryon's slave? […] MERCURY What, your house?! SO. Yes, my house! MER. Why, but everything you've just said you've dreamt up: Amphitryon's Sosia is me!",
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"text": "AMPHITRVO Nimia memorās mīra. Sed vīdistīn uxōrem meam? SOSIA Quīn intrō īre in aedīs numquam licitum est! AM. Quis tē prohibuit?",
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"english": "not because the great city of Carthage doesn't deserve that even a philosopher should beg to be given an honor, but so that your generosity remained pure and irreproachable",
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"english": "'The necessary', says Opillus Aurelius, 'is that which doesn't allow for delays, […] or that which one can't prevent from happening.'",
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"english": "And Darius had no doubt that she [his wife] had been killed, because she had been unable to endure great offense, and so he shouted in a frenzy from the pain, \"What great crime have I committed, Alexander?!..\"",
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"-ne#Latin"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈkʷiːn]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkʷin]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "quin"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: preceded by nōn, followed by sed quod/quia/ut",
"path": [
"quin"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "conjunction",
"title": "quin",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: preceded by nōn, followed by sed quod/quia/ut",
"path": [
"quin"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "conjunction",
"title": "quin",
"trace": ""
}
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