quidnam

[279] _Incerti_ is here used passively and personally, 'uncertain what it might be,' for _de quibus incertum erat, quidnam esset_; and the neuter _quidnam_ is used in the sense of the masculine plural, 'it was uncertain whether they were men, and what sort of men.'

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

Sed Allobroges diu in incerto habuere, quidnam consilii caperent.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

Lacrumantem lacinia tenet lacrumans. quidnam esse dicam? taciti auscultemus.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

At ego cuius acies lacrimis mersa caligaret nec dinoscere possem, quaenam haec esset mulier tam imperiosae auctoritatis, obstipui uisuque in terram defixo quidnam deinceps esset actura, exspectare tacitus coepi.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

_Si enim velis scire, quidnam ipsa vanitas sit, nulla certiore imagine cognosces quam Islebii.

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

Scaevola quidnam in tali tempestate faciendum esset deliberabant, cunctisque censentibus ut consul armis rem publicam tueretur, Scaevola negavit se quicquam vi esse acturum.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

The discipline, my mind had undergone, Ne falleretur rotundo sono et versuum cursu, cincinnis, et floribus; sed ut inspiceret quidnam subesset, quae, sedes, quod firmamentum, quis fundus verbis; an figures essent mera ornatura et orationis fucus; vel sanguinis e materiae ipsius corde effluentis rubor quidam nativus et incalescentia genuina; -- removed all obstacles to the appreciation of excellence in style without diminishing my delight.

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Sciscitemur ab adversaras, exempli gratia, quidnam sequuti novam sectam intriverint, qua Christus excluditur e coena mystica?

Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560

Haec illi quidem ancipites animo, quidnam enuntient categorice.

Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560

Caesare ipso si quereres, quidnam egisset in urbe, et in togft? leges multas respouderet se et prsclaras tulisse. —

Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735] 1790