qua

quā, adv. [ abl. fem. from qui], on which side, at or in which place, in what direction, where, by what way (class.).

I.

Lit., of place:

orasque Italicas omnis, quā adgreditur mare, sumus circumvecti,

Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 12:

fumus si quā exit foras,

id. Aul. 2, 4, 22:

jubet persequi, si quā queat reperire quae sustulerit,

id. Cist. 1, 3, 35: regna mihi liquit Pelops, quā ponto ab Helles urgetur Isthmos, Poët. ap. Sen. Ep. 80, 7; cf. Cic. Or. 49, 163:

ad omnes introitus, quā adiri poterat,

id. Caecin. 8, 21:

quo loco depulsus, Caecina, quā potuit, profectus est,

id. ib. 8, 22:

sum e proximo vicini fundo dejectus, quā adibam ad istum fundum,

id. ib. 29, 82:

in templum ipse nescio quā ascendit,

id. Phil. 3, 8, 20:

eādem, quā ceteri, fugere noluit,

id. Div. 1, 54, 123:

quā se parens persequeretur,

id. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22:

arx Athenarum, quā ad meridiem vergit,

Nep. Cim. 2, 5:

reliquum spatium, quā flumen intermittit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

plurima quā silva est,

Ov. M. 14, 361:

complentur moenia ac tecta, quāque longissime prospectari poterat,

i. e. as far as the eye could reach, Tac. A. 3, 1; Verg. A. 2, 753:

quā te ducit via, dirige gressum,

id. ib. 1, 401;

12, 507: oras, quā medius liquor Secernit Europen ab Afro,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 46; 3, 30, 10; Ov. M. 1, 187:

vagari, quā velit,

wherever, wheresoever, as far as, Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 70:

omnia, quā visus erat, constrata telis, armis,

Sall. J. 101, 11; cf. Ov. M. 1, 241:

quā murum ducturi erant,

Liv. 1, 44; 4, 17; 5, 43:

quā modo simulato metu cesserant, eā in veram fugam effusi,

id. 6, 24, 11.— Rarely with antecedent in plur.:

ad omnes introitus quā adire poterat,

Cic. Caecin. 8, 21:

vias relaxat, veniat quā sucus in herbas,

Verg. G. 1, 90:

viae, quā,

id. A. 5, 590:

duae erant viae, quā, etc.,

Nep. Eum. 8, 4. —

II.

Transf.

A.

Partit.: quā... quā, partly... partly; as well... as; both... and:

mores rapere properant, quā sacrum, quā publicum,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 39:

qui consectare quā maris quā feminas,

id. Mil. 4, 2, 20; 4, 9, 15:

ut si sunt quā suis quisque quā totius ordinis viribus,

Liv. 2, 35, 4:

omnia convestivit hederā, quā basim villae, quā intercolumnia,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 5:

quā dominus, quā advocati,

id. Att. 2, 19, 3; 9, 12, 1:

quā de Buthrotiis, quā de Bruto,

id. ib. 15, 18, 2:

quā falsa, quā vera,

Liv. 2, 45 et saep.:

quā feminae, quā viri,

Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 4.—

B.

As far as, in so far as (mostly post - Aug.):

statui non ultra attingere externa, nisi quā Romanis cohaerent rebus,

Liv. 39, 48:

Aegyptii ignem vocant masculum, quā ardet flamma, et feminam, quā lucet innoxius tactu,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 12, 2:

assumere in causam naturas eorum, quā competent, aut mitigare, quā repugnabunt, oportebit,

Quint. 4, 1, 17; Tac. A. 6, 10; cf.:

in praesentia non quā filius alicujus, sed quā homo, aestimatur,

Dig. 35, 2, 63.—

C.

In what manner, how, by what method; to what degree or extent:

quominus ei liceat eādem illā facultate et copiā vagari, quā velit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 70:

numquid tute prospexti tibi, Quid fieret? quā fieret?

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 56 (id est: quā ratione, quo modo fieret, Don.); cf. id. ib. 4, 4, 18:

quā facere id possis, nostram nunc accipe mentem,

Verg. A. 1,676:

coëant in foedera dextrae, Quā datur,

Verg. A. 11, 293 Forbig. ad loc.: ante praedico, M. Antonium delectus, quā possit, habiturum, in whatever manner, Cic. Phil. 6, 3, 5:

veterem tutare sodalem, Quā licet,

Ov. P. 2, 4, 33:

quā licet et possum, luctor celare furorem,

id. H. 15 (16), 235:

quā populus laboret,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 25.