Quare, Infinitè positum. Co. Magnus ad Domitium, Miror quid causæ fuerit quare consilium mutaris. Why, &c.Vtendum est excusatione, &c. quare id quod feceris, necesse fuerit. Cic. Quare, in principio orationis. Cicero. Quare quod focium. &c. Wherefore?Omnia feci quare perditis resisterem.Cic. Id est, vt. I didde all thing to the ende I might resist, or to resist wicked persons.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
quā-rē (or separately, quā rē), adv. [quae-res]. I.Interrog., by what means? how?Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 78.—B.Rel., by which means, whereby (rare but class.): multas res novas in edictum addidit, quare luxuria reprimeretur, Nep. Cat. 2, 3: permulta sunt, quae dici possunt, quare intellegatur, etc., Cic. Rosc. Am. 33, 94.—II.From what cause, on what account, wherefore, why.A.Interrog.: quare ausus?Plaut. Mil. 5, 12: quare negasti illud te fuisse laturum?Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 71: quā re enim primum ille adesse noluit?id. Verr. 2, 2, 18, 44; 2, 3, 30, 71; id. Att. 11, 15, 4; id. de Or. 1, 16, 71; Hor. S. 2, 2, 103; Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25; Curt. 7, 1, 36; Suet. Claud. 16; Sen. Q. N. 1, 1, 10; id. Ben. 3, 19, 1 et saep.— 2. Indirect: quaeramus, quae tanta vitia fuerint in unico filio, quare is patri displiceret, Cic. Rosc. Am. 14, 41.—B.Transf., for joining on a consecutive clause, for which reason, wherefore, therefore: quare sic tibi eum commendo, ut, etc., Cic. Fam. 13, 71: quare pro certo habetote, Sall. C. 52, 17.
