• quĕo,
īvi and ii, ĭtum,
v. n. [etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. ?*!vay āmi, am strong or able],
to be able,
I (
thou,
he,
etc.)
can (
class.;
esp. freq. with a negation; Cic. does not use nequeo in the first
pers. sing.; for a full account of the forms in use, v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 607
sqq.;
cf.: possum, polleo, valeo).—With
inf.:
non queo reliqua scribere, Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 5:
non quis, Hor. S. 2, 7, 92:
non quit sentire dolorem, Lucr. 3, 647:
ut quimus, Ter. And. 4, 5, 10:
quod vos dicere non quitis, Arn. 3, 104:
quod manu non queunt tangere, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 10:
queam, Hor. S. 2, 5, 2;
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 5:
queas, id. ib. 4, 8, 74;
Hor. S. 2, 5, 10:
queat, Sall. C. 58, 15:
queamus, Verg. A. 10, 19:
si queant, Just. 5, 4, 15:
non quibam, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 31:
quibat, id. Rud. 3, 1, 8;
Vulg. Dan. 8, 7:
quirem, Plaut. Merc. prol. 55:
quiret, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 62;
Tac. A. 1, 66:
quirent, Stat. S. 5, 3, 60:
nec credere quivi, Verg. A. 6, 463:
quivit, Ter. And. 4, 1, 31;
Nep. Att. 19, 2: quiit, Att.
ap. Macr. S. 6, 1:
quivimus, Vulg. Dan. 13, 39:
quistis, Juvenc. 2, 679: quiverunt, Quadrig.
ap. Gell. 15, 1:
quivere, Tac. H. 3, 25:
quivero, Vulg. Exod. 32, 30:
quiverit, Liv. 4, 24;
Tac. A. 1, 66:
quierit, Lucr. 6, 855:
quiveritis, Arn. 5, 161:
quiverint, Hier. in Isa. 8, 24, 13:
quissent, Aus. Epigr. 139:
quibo, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 25:
quibunt, Arn. 7, 218:
quiens, App. M. 6, p. 175, 9; in
abl.:
queunte, Cod. Just. 1, 3, 46:
quire, Gell. 11, 9, 1:
quisse, Lucr. 5, 1422.—
Affirmatively: hoc queo dicere, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:
habere quod queant dicere, id. Lael. 20, 71;
id. Tusc. 5, 37, 108:
queat, id. Rep. 2, 3, 6:
queamus, id. de Or. 1, 58, 250:
queunt, Sall. J. 44, 5;
Col. 2, 2, 22. — In
pass.: si non sarciri quitur, Caecil.
ap. Diom. p. 380 P.:
percipi queuntur, Att. ib.: suppleri queatur, Lucr. 1, 1045:
subigi queantur, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 12: neque vi impelli, neque prece quitus sum,
could not be driven, Att.
ap. Diom. p. 380 P.:
forma nosci non quita est, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 57.—As
dep.:
pollicitus ita facturum, ne sic quidem quitus est, could not, was not able, App. Mag. p. 274, 17.