(adjective) : quam-quam (quan-)
* Conj., though, although, albeit; ante-class. always, and in class. prose regularly joined with indic.; by Cic. rarely with the subj., and usu. when the general idea would demand the subj. (as potential, conditional, consecutive, etc.; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 574; Madv. § 361, A, 3; and v. esp. Fischer, Gram. 2, p. 696 sq.).
* With indic.: quamquam blandā voce vocabam, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 41 (Ann. v. 50 Vahl.): quamquam libenter escis alienis studes,Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 8; id. Mil. 4, 8, 44: quamquam est scelestus,Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 5: quamquam id est minime probandum,Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 42; 1, 4, 7; id. Ac. 2, 6, 16; 1, 9, 34: quamquam non venit ad finem tam audax inceptum, tamen, etc.,Liv. 10, 32: Romani, quamquam fessi erant,Sall. J. 53: quamquam festinas, non est mora longa,Hor. C. 1, 28, 35 et saep.
* In partic., as a rhetor. particle of transition, inobjections made by the speaker himself, although, however, yet, nevertheless, notwithstanding: quamquam, quem potissimum Herculem colamus, scire sane velim,Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42: quamquam quid loquor,id. Cat. 1, 9, 22: quamquam te quidem quid hoc doceam,id. de Or. 2, 47, 197; id. Phil. 2, 16, 42: quamquam o! sed superent, etc.,Verg. A. 5, 195.
* Ellipt., with an or part.: bellum atque arma, quamquam vobis invisa, tamen quia Lepido placent, sumenda sunt,Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 48, 2: acri viro, et quamquam advorso populi partium, famá tamen aequabili,id. J. 43, 1 Dietsch: omnia illa, quamquam expetenda, etc.,Cic. Fin. 5, 23, 68: curam adhibere, quamquam difficili in re,id. Fam. 2, 7, 3; 5, 3, 4; Liv. 4, 53, 1 Weissenb. ad loc.
* With a subj.-clause: quamquam ne impudicitiam quidem nunc abesse Pallante adultero,Tac. A. 12, 65, 3.