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quă-propter (in tmesi: qua me propter adduxi, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 4), adv. [qui-propter], for what, wherefore, why.

  1. I. Interrog. (ante- and post-class.): quapropter id vos factum suspicamini? Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 52: Tra. Quāpropter? Theo. Quia, etc., id. ib. 3, 2, 140: parumper opperire me hic: My. Quapropter? Ter. And. 4, 2, 31.
    1. B. Indirect: sed quid est quapropter nobis vos malum minitamini? Plaut. Bacch. 5, 4, 25: credo te non nihil mirari, Quid sit, quapropter te huc foras puerum evocare jussi, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 6: interrogatus quapropter vellet, etc., Val. Max. 8, 13, ext. 2.
  2. II. Transf., in passing to a new thought, wherefore, on which account (class.): quapropter hoc dicam, numquam, etc., Cic. Caecin. 27, 78; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 116; id. Ad. 3, 2, 44; Val. Max. 6, 4, 4 al.