quia Subj.
Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch:
quia, Konjunktion (das alte Neutrum Plural von qui, eigentlich in Bezug auf welche Dinge), weil, zur Angabe einer bestimmten Ursache oder auch eines Beweggrunds (vergleiche quod und quoniam), häufig in Wechselbeziehung auf die Partikeln ideo, idcirco, propterea etc. im Hauptsatz
partim ideo fortes in decernendo non erunt, quia nihil timebant, partim quia timebantCic.
quia mutari natura non potest, idcirco verae amicitiae sempiternae suntCic.
diligi iucundum est propterea, quia tutiorem vitam efficitCic.
quia scripseras te proficisci cogitare, eo te haerere censebamCic.
ob hoc, quia parum dignitatis in legatione erat, negaverunt pacemLiv.
in der oratio obliqua beim AcILiv. 26, 27, 12 verbunden
a)quiane, in der Frage: etwa weil?
quiane iuvat ante levatos?Verg. Aen. 4, 538
quiane te voco, bene ut tibi sit?Plaut. Pers. 851
b)quianam, altertümlich = cur, in der Frage: weswegen? warum?
heu, quianam tanti cinxerunt aethera nimbi?Verg. Aen. 5, 13Enn. ann. 127 und 259Verg. Aen. 10, 6und andere
c)quia enim, weil jaPlaut. Amph. 666 und anderes. Brix Plaut. capt. 881Ter. heaut. 188
☞quia dem Verbum des Satzes nachgestelltHor. sat. 1, 9, 51
Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary:
quia, conjunction, because
urbs, quae quia postrema coaedificata est, Neapolis nominaturCic.
turpis est (pax), quia periculosaCic.
non quia plus animi victis est, sed, etc.Liv.
Poet., after its verb
Urgentur . . . carent quia vateHor.
With subjunctive (giving a reason as existing in another mind)
reprehendis me, quia defendamCic.
Nil satis est, inquit, quia tantum, quantum habeas, sisHor.
With -ne, interrogatively, because? (old and poet.)
quiane auxilio iuvat ante levatos?Verg.
With enim, because forsooth (old)Ter.
With nam (usually written quianam), wherefore? (poet.)
quianam sententia vobis Versa retro?Verg.
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