Citations:inquam

Latin citations of inquiat

• post 86 BC, Ad C. Herennium libri IV de ratione dicendi (Rhetorica ad Herennium), Loeb Classical Library (1954), book IV, chapter iii, § 5 (page 236, lines 1–8):

  Non ausim dicere, sed tamen vereor ne qua in re laudem modestiae venentur, in ea ipsa re sint inpudentes. “Quid enim tibi vis?” aliquis inquiat. “Artem tuam scribis; gignis novas nobis praeceptiones; eas ipse confirmare non potes; ab aliis exempla sumis. Vide ne facias inpudenter qui tuo nomini velis ex aliorum laboribus libare laudem.”

  I should not venture to say so, yet I fear that in their very pursuit of praise for modesty they are impudent. Some one may say to them: “Now what do you mean? You are writing a treatise of your own; you are creating new precepts for us; you cannot confirm these yourself; so you borrow examples from others. Beware of acting impudently in seeking to extract from the labour of others praise for your own name.”

  (translation by Harry Caplan, ibidem, page 237, lines 1–9)