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Luck compares _Met_ XIV 465 'admonitu quamquam luctus renouentur amari' and _Met_ XV 244-45 '_quae_ [_sc_ elementa] _quamquam_ spatio distent, tamen omnia fiunt/ex ipsis'; in the first passage a few manuscripts and in the second the majority offer the indicative.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Vt ille rem proponit, quamquam sine arte, apposite tamen, et vt satis intelligas, quod qu鎠o diligenter perpendas, aditus ad Cathayam per Orientem procul dubio breuissimus est et almodum expeditus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In post-Augustan writers quamquam is freely construed with the
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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_Ad Calvum revertamur; qui orator fuisset cum literis eruditior quam Curio, tum etiam accuratius quoddam dicendi, et exquisitius afferebat genus; quod quamquam scienter eleganterque tractabat, nimium tamen inquirens in se, atque ipse sese observans, metuensque ne vitiosum colligeret, etiam verum sanguinem deperdebat.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Herculés quamquam quiétem vehementer cupiébat, tamen Eurystheó párére cónstituit, et simul ac iússa éius accépit, proficíscí mátúrávit.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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Quamquam, with the force _and yet_, is often used to introduce principal clauses; as, -- quamquam quid loquor, _and yet why do I speak?
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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_Ego autem juris civilis studio, multum operæ dabam Q. Scævolæ, qui quamquam nemini se ad docendum dabat, tamen, consulentibus respondendo, studiosos audiendi docebat.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Quamquam, etsī, tametsī, _although_, introduce a statement of fact, and are followed by the Indicative (of any tense); as, -- quamquam omnis virtūs nōs allicit, tamen jūstitia id maximē efficit,
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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_Cneius autem Lentulus multo majorem opinionem dicendi actione faciebat, quam quanta in eo facultas erat; qui cum esset nec peracutus (quamquam et ex facie et ex vultu videbatur) nec abundans verbis, etsi fallebat in eo ipso; sed voce suavi et canorâ calebat in agendo, ut ea, quæ deerant, non desiderarentur.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Thus: -- quamquam movērētur hīs vōcibus, _although he was moved by these words_; quamvīs multī opīnārentur, _though many thought_; quamvīs īnfēstō animō pervēnerās, _though you had come with hostile intent_.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
fbharjo commented on the word quamquam
'although' in Latin (qualm qualm) see comment by Reesetee on qualm
November 26, 2010