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                    "description": "(v. a.P. a.) : quaero (old orthogr. QVAIRO, Epitaphs of the Scipios, 6; for the original form and etym. quaeso, ĕre, v. quaeso), sīvi or sĭi, sītum, 3, v. a.\n* To seek.\n* Lit.\n* In gen.: aliquem, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 43 Vahl.); Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 3: te ipsum quaerebam,Ter. Heaut. 4, 8, 3: escam in sterquilinio,Phaedr. 3, 12 init.\n* Trop.\n* To seek to get or procure, to seek or search for a thing, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 38: rem mercaturis faciendis,Cic. Par. 6, 2, 46.—Absol.: contrivi in quaerendo vitam atque aetatem meam,Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 15; 5, 3, 27; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 57; id. A. P. 170.\n* Transf., to get, procure, obtain, acquire a thing: uxores liberorum quaerendorum causā ducere,Suet. Caes. 52: liberorum quaerundorum causā ei uxor data est,Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 109; cf.: quaerunt litterae hae sibi liberos,id. Ps. 1, 1, 21.\n* To seek for something missing, to miss: Siciliam in uberrimā Siciliae parte,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 47: optatos Tyndaridas,Prop. 1, 17, 18: Phoebi comam,Tib. 2, 3, 20: amnes,Stat. Th. 4, 703.\n* To ask, desire, with ut and subj.: quaeris ut suscipiam cogitationem quidnam istis agendum putem,Cic. Att. 14, 20, 4.\n* In gen., to seek, i. e. to think over, meditate, aim at, plan a thing: dum id quaero, tibi qui filium restituerem,Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 83: quonam modo maxime ulti sanguinem nostrum pereamus,Sall. C. 33,5: fugam,Cic. Att. 7, 17, 1; id. Mur. 37, 80: sibi remedium ad rem aliquam,id. Clu. 9, 27: de gratiā quid significares, mecum ipse quaerebam,id. Att. 9, 11, A, 1.—With inf.: tristitiae causam si quis cognoscere quaerit,seeks, strives, endeavors,Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 7; id. Am. 1, 8, 51; Hor. C. 3, 4, 39; id. Ep. 1, 1, 2 al.\n* In partic.\n* To look for, seek to gain any thing; to get, acquire, obtain, procure: laudem sibi,Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 74: salutem alicui malo,id. Ad. 3, 2, 2: negabant ullā aliā in re nisi in naturā quaerendum esse illud summum bonum,Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 19: pudentem exitum suae impudentiae,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 1, § 2: invidiam in aliquem,id. Rab. Post. 17, 46.\n* In a good sense, select, special, extraordinary (mostly post-Aug.): epulae quaesitissumae, Sall. ap. Macr. S. 2, 9, 9 (Sall. H. 2, 23, 4 Dietsch); comp.: leges quaesitiores (opp. simplices),Tac. A. 3, 26: quaesitior adulatio,id. ib. 3, 57.—Sup.: quaesitissimi honores,Tac. A. 2, 53.\n* In a bad sense (opp. to what is natural), far-fetched, studied, affected, assumed (class.): vitabit etiam quaesita nec ex tempore ficta, sed domo allata, quae plerumque sunt frigida,Cic. Or. 26, 89: ut numerus non quaesitus, sed ipse secutus esse videatur,id. ib. 65, 219: comitas,Tac. A. 6, 50: asperitas,id. ib. 5, 3.\n* Subst.: quaesītum, i, n.\n* To desire\n* With ex: quaesivi ex Phaniā, quam in partem provinciae putaret, etc.,Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 1: quaerit ex solo ea, quae, etc.,Caes. B. G. 1, 18.\n* To examine or inquire into judicially, to investigate, institute an investigation; with   acc. (rare): hunc abduce, vinci, rem quaere,Ter. Ad. 3 (4), 36: non dubitabat Minucius, quin iste (Verres) illo die rem illam quaesiturus non esset,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 29, § 72. —With de and abl. (class.; cf. Krebs, Autibarb. p. 962 sq.): de pecuniis repetundis,Cic. Verr. 1, 9, 27: de morte alicujus,id. Rosc. Am. 41, 119: de servo in dominum,to question by torture, put to the rack,id. Mil. 22, 59: aliquid per tormenta,Suet. Tib. 58: legibus,to investigate according to the laws, impartially,Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 3.\n* With inf. (post-Aug.): e monte aliquo in alium transilire quaerens,Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 214: qui mutare sedes quaerebant,Tac. G. 2.\n* Transf., of animals, plants, etc., to desire, prefer, seek: salictum et harundinetum ... umidum locum quaerunt,Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 5: glires aridum locum quaerunt,id. ib. 3, 15, 2; Col. 1, praef. § 26: lupinum quaerit maxime sabulosa,Plin. 18, 14, 36, § 134; so of the soil: ager aquosus plus stercoris quaerit,demands,Pall. 1, 6, 15.\n* Transf.: si quaeris, si quaerimus (prop., if we, or you, look well into the matter; if we, or you, would know the truth), to say the truth, in fact, to speak honestly: omnino, si quaeris, ludi apparatissimi,Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2: at sunt morosi, et anxii, et difficiles senes: si quaerimus, etiam avari,id. Sen. 18, 65: si quaeritis,id. de Or. 2, 62, 254; so, too, si verum quaeris,id. Fam. 12, 8, 1: si verum quaeritis,id. de Or. 2, 34, 146: si verum quaerimus,id. Tusc. 2, 23, 55: noli quaerere or quid quaeris? in short, in one word: noli quaerere: ita mihi pulcher hic dies visus est,id. Fam. 4, 4, 3: quid quaeris? biduo factus est mihi familiaris,id. ib. 3, 1, 2.— Hence, quaesītus, a, um, P. a., sought out.\n* A question (poet.): accipe quaesiti causam,Ov. M. 4, 793; id. F. 1, 278; Hor. S. 2, 6, 82.\n* A question as a rhetorical figure, = πύσμα, Mart. Cap. 5, § 524."
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