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• quite (adv.): (N.B. One of those very general words, which can only be properly rendered by a familiar knowledge of Latin authors, and for which a Dictionary can only give hints.)

A. The corresponding Latin adverbs may be classified into: (I.) Advs. of an intensive signification (like the Eng. word itself):

1. admŏdum (fully: completely): your letter q. rejoices me, me literae tuae adm. delectarunt, Cic. Fam. 5, 19, 2. Join: adm. et plane: forma ingenii adm. impolita et plane rudis, id. Brut. 85, 294: esp. with words denoting age: q. a boy, puer adm., Liv. 31, 28: q. a youth, juvenis adm., Tac. H. 4, 5: cf. L. Crassus, quum esset adm. adolescens, Cic. Off. 2, 13, 47: in dialogue: quite so! admodum! Pl. Bac. 4, 6, 40: (= ita est, prorsus ita est) cf. scis solere in hujusmodi sermone, ut transiri alio possit, dici, adm., aut prorsus ita est, Cic. Leg. 3, 11, 26.
2. prorsus: I'm q. done for, pr. perii, Pl. Aul. 2, 8, 27: I q. think so, ita prorsus existimo, Cic. Tusc. 2, 5: with adj., q. by all, p. omnibus, id. Fam. 4, 10: with valde: I'm q. pleased at this, hoc mihi p. v. placet, id. Fam. 6, 20: (said by an author at the sea-side) I'm q. disgusted at the thought of writing, a scribendo prorsus abhorret animus, Cic. Att. 2, 1.
3. plānē: we say such a man is q. without common feeling, communi sensu pl. caret, inquimus, Hor. S. 1, 3, 66: almost, or rather q., propemodum, vel pl. potius, Cic. Brut. 97: (in dialogue), quite so! pl. istuc est, Pl. Truc. 2, 7, 57: and sup. planissime, id. Ph. 5, 2, 3: with other advs.: (you've done) q. right, pl. bene, Cic. Att. 13, 6: it q. put me out, illud pl. moleste tuli, id. Fam. 3, 10.
4. făcĭlĕ (certainly: unquestionably): with superl. adjs., q. the most learned, f. doctissimus, Cic. Rab. Post. 9, 23: q. the worst, f. deterrimus, id. Tusc. 1, 33, 81: q. the first in, etc., genere et nobilitate et pecunia f. primus, id. R. A. 6, 15: virtute, existimatione, nobilitate, f. princeps, id. Clu. 5, 11: f. praecipuus, Quint. 10, 1, 68: with numerals: an inheritance q. amounting to, haereditas f. ad HS. tricies, id. Verr. 2, 14, 35: with verbs: q. to surpass, f. vincere, Cic. Rep. 6, 16, fin.: omnes, id. de Or. 2, 13, 56: f. superare, id. Leg. 1, 2, 7: to be q. content (or satisfied) with, f. perferre ac pati, Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 35. Neg.: I don't q. venture to say, haud f. dixerim, Cic. Rep. 1, 3, fin.: I can't q. affirm as certain (or settled), haud f. compertum narraverim, Sall. J. 17: v. hardly: expr. not q. by the opposites to facile, aegre, graviter (and comp. and sup.): esp. with ferre and pati: v. to bear: to put up with; to suffer: scarcely: to be q. ill, gravissime aegrotare, Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 43.
5. advs. of more special application: e. g. fundĭtus (from the very bottom): esp. with verbs of destroying: v. utterly: cf. praecepta, quae probas, funditus evertunt amicitiam (q. subvert), Cic. Fin. 2, 25, 80: cf. f. tollere veritatem et fidem, id. de Or. 62, 209: more gen. q. to ruin a person, cf. perdidisti me sodalem f., Pl. Bac. 3, 6, 31: q. to spoil a thing, f. aliquid pessum dare, id. Trin. 1, 2, 128. (II.) Adverbs of quality.
6. bĕnĕ: to do q. right, b. facere, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 30: esp. in the colloq. phrr., b. facis, b. fecisti, b. factum, q. right! (= very well: well done: I'm q. satisfied), Plaut. and Ter. pass.: and intrans. it's q. right! (all's well:) bene habet! bene agitur, ib.: sup., optume habet, Pl. Pseud. 4, 1, 25: to be q. well (in health), b. valere: Ni. Is he q. well now? Chr. As strong as a boxer, Ni. Benene usque valuit? Chr. Pancratice atque athletice, id. Bac. 2, 3, 14: Sup. optime valere, Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 43 (opp. to gravissime aegrotare): with adjs.: with q. a large retinue, cf. obviam cum b. magna caterva sua venit, Cic. Mur. 33, 69: q. strong and in good training, b. robustus atque exercitatus, Cic. Div. in Caec. 15, 48: with advs.: q. early (in the morning), b. mane (haec scripsi), Cic. Att. 4, 9: q. heartily (or cordially, or intimately), b. penitus in istius familiaritatem se dedit, id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, init.: for q. a long time, b. diu, Suet. vit. Juv.: sup., to keep q. to one-self, optime continere, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 23: q. in the nick of time, optime, with adest, id. ib. 5, 2, 66: with video, id. And. 2, 1, 35: with eccum, id. Hec. 2, 2, 4: neg., not q., non b.: vix b.: cf. vix b. desieram, Ov. F. 5, 278: v. hardly: scarcely: barely.
7. rectē: v. right: rightly: esp. in the Phr., q. well (also in Eng. right well: vulg. all right): Is he alive? Is he q. well? vivit? nempe recte valet? Pl. Bacc. 2, 2, 11 (Ans.: vivit et valet, ib. 14): with adjs.: q. healthy (of animals), r. sanus, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6: I'm q. well, equidem valeo et salvus sum, Pl. Am. 2, 1, 34: in dialogue: q. right! recte! Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3. Other advs. with like force: probe! ib.: pulchre! ib. 14: (ironically) nimium! ib. 5, 7, 17: verum! ib.: credo! ib. (The adj. is also used in the Phr. recta via, or simply recta.)
8. valdē (contr. fr. vălĭdē, strongly: v. exceedingly: very: VERY MUCH): with verbs: I'm q. looking for a letter from you, literas tuas v. exspecto, Cic. Fam. 16, 19: q. to laugh at (or ridicule) a person, v. arridere alicui, id. Att. 13, 21: to be q. wrong (mistaken), v. errare, Cic. de Or. 2, 19, 83: with adjs.: cf. magistratus v. lenes et remissi (q. inactive and incompetent), Cic. Rep. 1, 43: with advs.: to do a thing q. well, rem v. bene gerere, id. Fam. 1, 8: they took it q. ill, illud v. graviter tulerunt, id. Att. 1, 17. Join: valde vehementer et libere dicere, ib. 14, 1: (cf. vehementer displicere, ib. 13, 21: vehementer errare, id. Ac. 2, 32, 103: v. extremely).
9. sānē: I'm q. afraid of him, s. ego illum metuo, Pl. M. 5, 2, 108: with valdē: cf. explicat orationem sane longam et verbis valde bonis, Cic. Agr. 2, 5, fin.: in dialogue: I'm q. willing (or I q. wish it), by all means, s. volo, Pl. Poen. 5, 2, 119: q. willingly, s. et libenter quidem, Cic. Rep. 2, 38. with other advs.: (built) q. well, sane bene, Pl. Most. 3, 2, 74: and in dial. q. so! (= very well) bene s., recte s., scite hercle s., s. pol: v. very: sane quam: cf. quod de Pompeio Caninius agit, sane quam refrixit, (the proceeding has q. fallen through), Cic. Q. F. 2, 6, 5: neg. with haud: I don't q. understand what pursuit such a man would deem praiseworthy (cujus studium qui vituperat) haud sane intelligo, quodnam sit, quod laudandum putet, id. Off. 2, 2, 5: v. indeed: truly.
10. prŏbē: (like finely, and Fr. bien): it seems gen. to be ironical: q. drunk, appōtus pr., Pl. Am. 1, 1, 126: cf. pr. decipere, ib. 268: pr. errare, ib. 3, 3, 20: with similis. you're q. yourself, Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 18.
11. sătis and săt: with verbs: I'm q. aware of that, ego istuc satis scio, Pl. Am. 3, 2, 23: sat scio, id. Aul. 3, 6, 25: Ter. Eun. 3, 2: to have q. enough to do (to have one's hands full, esp. Fig. = to be in trouble), satis agere, Pl. Merc. 2, 1, 4: satagere, Auct. B. Afr. 78: with adjs.: q. rich, satis dives, Pl. Aul. 2, 1, 44: q. happy with only my Sabine farm, satis beatus unicis Sabinis, Hor. Od. 2, 18, 14: not q. fit for battle, non sat idoneus pugnae, Hor. Od. 2, 19, 26: with advs.: q. boldly, s. audacter, Pl. Am. 2, 2, 208: q. well, s. bene, id. Poen. 1, 2, 73: neg., not q. honourably, non s. honeste, Cic. Am. 16, 57: q. enough and more, satis superque: v. enough. (III.) Adverbs of quantity.
12. omnīno: v. altogether: utterly: with verbs: I'm not q. ruined, there's room still left to sink deeper, non omnino jam perii: est reliquum quo peream magis, Pl. Asin. 1, 3, 80: with numerals (= in all, in the total): we had a very full house, q. 200, sane frequentes fuimus, omn. ad ducentos, Cic. Q. F. 2, 1: with omnis: q. the whole of the argument, omn. omnis argumentatio, id. Inv. 1, 46, 86.
13. magnŏpĕre: (by all means): I q. think, etc., ego tibi Romam properandum m. censeo, id. Fam. 15, 14.
14. multo: v. much: very: esp. with ălĭter: but he finds the case (or result) q. otherwise, verum aliter evenire multo intelligit, Ter. And., prol. 4: with ac: q. otherwise than he expected (q. contrary to his hopes), m. aliter ac sperabat, Nep. Hamilc. 2: also multum: L. F. was q. another sort of man, multum ab iis aberat L. Fufius, Cic. Brut. 62, 222.
15. Comps. and sups. of advs. of this sense. (1.) măgis: scarcely found except as a compar. (perh.: q. likely, m. verisimile, i. e. more likely than not: cf. Caes. B. G. 3, 13). (2) Neg. mĭnus (freq.): with adjs.: not q. good, minus bonum (vinum), Varr. R. R. 1, 7: with verbs: he is not q. well, m. valet, Pl. Bacc. 2, 2, 15: Cic. Att. 4, 14: with advs.: not q. carefully enough, m. diligenter, Nep. Con. 5: they don't live q. so long, m. diu vivunt, Plin. 14, 22, 28: esp. in the phr. q. as much as, non (haud) m. quam (atque): cf. laudibus haud m. quam praemio gaudent militum animi, Liv. 2, 60; q. as dear as, cf. patria hominibus non minus cara esse debet, quam liberi, Cic. Fam. 4, 5: cf. id. Cat. 3, 1. (3) plūrĭmum: to be q. different, pl. differre, Cic. Fat. 4: q. to surpass others, pl. aliis praestare, id. Inv. 2, 1, 1: q. to the extent of their power, quantum pl. possunt, Quint. 11, 3, 120. (4) maxĭmē: esp. with an adv.: q. recently, nuper maxime, Caes. B. C. 3, 9: with quam: cf. ut dicatis quam m. ad veritatem accommodate (q. in accordance with), Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 149: in dialogue: as an emphatic sense: v. certainly: with immo, as emphatic dissent: q. the contrary! immo vero maxime, Sall. C. 52: in same neg. sense, mĭnĭmē: min. equidem, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 16: min. vos quidem, Cic. Att. 8, 9: min. vero, id. Tusc. 1, 6: strengthened by gentium, Ter. Ph. 5, 8, 44: also with adv., q. seldom, min. saepe, Caes. B. G. 1, 1. (5) summē: v. highly, extremely. (IV.) Adverbs of position, time, and comparison:
16. prŏpĕ (nearly, passing into the sense of q. near at hand, q. close: esp. in comp. and sup.): it's q. time that something were done, prope est, ut aliquid fiat, Papin. Dig. 35, 1, 67: comp., to stand q. near, propius stare, Hor. A. P. 361: cf. pr. spectare, id. Ep. 1, 1, 67: with acc., q. close to the city, pr. urbem, Cic. Phil. 7, 9: sup.: with acc.: q. after the Roman custom, proxime morem Romanum, Liv. 24, 48: q. like (closely resembling), prox. speciem muros oppugnantium navium, id. 30, 10.
17. pĕnĭtus: q. severed (in the lit. sense, of hidden away in a remote corner), et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos, Virg. E. 1, 67: usu. fig.: to know q. well, p. pernoscere, Cic. de Or. 1, 5: to understand q. well, p. intelligere, id. Att. 8, 12: q. to ruin themselves, p. perdere se ipsos, id. Fin. 1, 15: q. to lose, etc., p. amittere hanc consuetudinem et disciplinam, id. Off. 2, 8. Join: pen. et plane: cf. ex rebus p. perspectis et plane cognitis, id. de Or. 1, 2, 3: v. thoroughly: utterly.
18. longē (v. far): freq. with superls.: q. the first man (in distinction), l. princeps, Cic. Fam. 13, 13: q. the noblest and richest, l. nobilissimus et ditissimus (apud Helvetios), Caes. B. G. 1, 2: to be q. superior, l. praestare, Cic. Brut. 64: esp. in an adversative sense: he's q. wrong, l. errat, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 40: to hold q. a different opinion (to differ q.), l. dissentire, Cic. Am. 9, 32: the contest is of q. a different sort, longe dissimilis contentio, id. Sull. 17: sup., my principles (or plan of life) were (was) of q. a contrary kind, a quo mea longissime ratio abhorrebat, id. Verr. 2, 2, 4: esp. with aliter and secus, q. otherwise: cf. qui (Stoici) multa falsa esse dicunt, longeque aliter se habere ac sensibus videantur (and are q. different from what they appear to the senses), id. Acad. 2, 31, 101: but it (the fact or truth) is q. otherwise, quod longe secus est, id. Am. 9, 29: to think q. otherwise, l. aliter sentire, id.: also with alius: I'm of q. a different mind, l. mihi alia mens est, id. Note: sometimes procul: v. far: widely: to be q. wrong, pr. errare, Sall. J. 85: esp. with abl. (= q. without, q. free from), pr. negotiis, Hor. Epod. 2, 1: q. beyond doubt, pr. dubio, Quint. 1, 5, 14: dubio pr., Flor. 2, 6: it's q. untrue, pr. vero est, Col. 1, praef. fin.
19. immo: always adversative, expressing or implying q. the contrary. (v. nay): q. another matter (from what you suppose), immo aliud, Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 2: cf. Si. Quid hoc intellextin'? an nondum etiam ne hoc quidem? Da. Immo callide! (oh yes! I q. understand!), id. ib. 1, 2, 30: Nullane habes vitia? Immo alia, et fortasse minora (oh yes! I have; but q. of a different sort, etc.), Hor. S. 1, 3, 20: in very emphatic sense, with another adv. (= q. so, and still more): e. g. immo maxume, Pl. Ps. 1, 5, 80 cf. Immo edepol me quam te minus (sc. amo: Nay! I love you q. as much as myself), Pl. Cas. 2, 8, 19: so, immo unice, id. Bac. 2, 3, 28: esp. immo vero, Cic. Att. 12, 43: id. Rep. 6, 14 for additional emphasis, Join: immo hercle vero perplacent, Pl. Most. 4, 1, 4.
20. advs. of time: as in, I've q. done, use jam: modo: v. just: now. Neg.: not q., nondum: v. NOT YET: q. as soon as, simul ac, simul cum: v. soon: together.
21. advs. of resemblance and comparison: pariter, similiter: (used also in dial. for q. so! Cic.): esp. aeque (v. equally. just: as much as): with et: cf. nisi aeque amicos et nosmetipsos diligamus (q. as much as ourselves), Cic. Fin. 1, 26, 67: with ac and atque; q. as much as yourself, aeque ac tu ipse, id. Am. 6, 22: q. as much as if, aeq. ac si, id. Fam. 13, 43, 3. Join: proxime [atque ille] aut etiam aeque (almost or q. as much) laborare, ib. 9, 13: also usque (for place, time, and relation), with ad (q. to), ex (q. from), adeo (q. to that extent). Some preps. have the like force: e. g. tenus, with abl.: wine-jars drunk q. up, poti faece tenus cadi, Hor. Od. 3, 15, 16: cum: cf. diffugiunt cadis cum faece siccatis amici, ib. 1, 35, 27. Note: in some contexts, quamlibet, quamvis, quamtumvis, are suitable.

B. Expr. by adjectives: in gen. adjs. of quantity, quality, position, and relation, may be used in constructions determined by the context: esp.,

1. omnis (like all, adverbially, in Engl.): nom.: I'm q. full of (q. devoted to) this, omnis in hoc sum, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 11: I shall not q. die (something of me will survive), non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam, id. Od. 1, 30, 6: q. all, ad unum omnes (to a man), Cic. Am. 23, 86: acc.: to do q. (just) the same as, efficere omnia eadem quae, Pl. Asin. 3, 3, 23: abl.: to plead q. earnestly, omnibus precibus contendere, Caes. B. G. 5, 6. Neut. pl. absol.: omnia: cf. tramites, omnia plani (q. level or smooth), et ex facili mobiles, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 25: per omnia, Quint. 5, 2, 3: q. praise-worthy, per omnia laudabilis, Vell. 2, 33: omni ab parte: no state (condition of life) (or blest), nihil est ab omni parte beatum, Hor. Od. 2, 16, 27: with numeri (parts, members: v. completely: perfectly): to be q. complete (or perfect), omnes numeros habere, or continere, Cic. Fin. 3, 7: and in abl., cf. a book q. perfect in all points (or, q. finished), liber numeris omnibus absolutus, Plin. Ep. 9, 38. Join: omn. num. atque partibus: cf. mundus perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris atque partibus, Cic. N. D. 2, 13: with ratio: omni ratione.
2. tōtus: v. whole: wholly: altogether: totally: nom. with adjs.: I'm q. devoted to you and yours, sum totus vester, Cic. Fam. 15, 7: that's q. false, falsum est id totum, id. Rep. 2, 15. Phr.: q. a perfect man, in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundus, Hor. S. 2, 7, 86: with verbs: I'm q. in a fright, totus tremo horreoque, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 4: I'm q. out of sorts with myself, eheu! quam ego nunc totus displiceo mihi, Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 20: he's q. altered, totus commutatus est: with subs. and prons. gov. by in: q. absorbed in (one's thoughts), totus in illis, Hor. S. 1, 9, 2: I'm q. alarmed, t. sum in metu, Pl. Cist. 2, 1, 59: he's q. in love, in amore t. est, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 50: abl.: q. through the night, tota nocte, Caes. B. G. 1, 26: to be of q. a different opinion, Join: universa re et tota sententia dissidere, Cic. Fin. 4, 1, 2: to be q. wrong, mistaken, (vulg., to be q. out), toto coelo errare, Macr. Sat. 3, 12 (a late phr.): cf. tota erras via, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 14: you are q. wrong not only as to the fact but the time, in eo non tu quidem tota re sed temporibus errasti, Cic. Phil. 2, 9, fin.: with preps.: ex toto: Ov. Pont. 4, 8, 72: Plin. 11, 17, 17: Col. 5, 8, 6: in totum: a thing q. different, res in totum diversa, Plin. 31, 7, 42: id. 2, 90, 2.
3. sōlus, ūnus, and such adjs., with or without emphatic adjuncts: q. alone, solus per se, Cic.: I did it q. by myself, egomet solus feci, Pl. Am. 1, 1, 269: with gen.: I am left q. alone, ego meorum solus sum meus, Ter. Ph. 4, 1, 21: with inter: solus inter omnes, Mart. 4, 2; ex omnibus, Cic. de Or. 3, 18. Join: unus solus, Cic. Pis. 40, 96.
4. expr. by the superl. of adjs. in general, and particularly of those of time and place: as īmus (q. at the end, e. g. of a table): summus (q. the first, in rank): and the subs. summa in various constructions, esp. ad summam, in summum: ultimus, esp. ad ultimum (to the last degree).
5. ălius, with emphatic reduplication. = q. different: cf. aliud est maledicere, aliud accusare, (reviling and accusation are q. different things), Cic. Coel. 3: cf. aliud est servum esse, aliud servire, Quint. 5, 10, 60.
6. many adjs. and advs., being emphatic either in their own meaning, or by virtue of the context, include the sense of quite.

C. Prepositions in composition give the force of quite; esp. per, con, ex, in, re, sub, trans: (these will be suggested by the particular adj. or v.): e. g. comedo (to eat q. up), Vulg. Gen. xxxi. 15: conficio, perficio (q. to finish): confringo (to break q. in pieces): compleo, expleo, impleo, repleo (q. to fill): permuto (q. to change): perterritus (q. frightened), cum multis aliis: (you see how) the rivers are q. frozen over, flumina constiterint, Hor. Od. 1, 9, 4: q. easily, perfacile, Cic. R. A., 7, 20: an ex. of emphatic fulness, ut tota mente et omnibus artubus contremiscam, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121: transilire, with trans or acc. alone (to leap q. over).
D. Expr. by negatives (by way of emphatic contrast): he is not q. unlettered, nec tamen scit nihil: I am q. miserable, prorsus nihil abest quin miserrimus sim.

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