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quest
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P. and V. ζήτησις, ἡ, ζήτημα, τό, V. ἔρευνα, ἡ.
Go in quest of: P. and V. μετέρχεσθαι (acc.), ζητεῖν (acc.), ἐρευνᾶν (acc.), P. ἐπιζητεῖν (acc.), V. μεταστείχειν (acc.), μαστεύειν (acc.), Ar. also V. μᾰτεύειν (acc.), μεθήκειν (acc.); see seek.
Pursue, run after: P. and V. θηρεύειν, V. θηρᾶν (or mid.).
subs.
P. and V. ζήτησις, ἡ, ζήτημα, τό, V. ἔρευνα, ἡ.
Go in quest of: P. and V. μετέρχεσθαι (acc.), ζητεῖν (acc.), ἐρευνᾶν (acc.), P. ἐπιζητεῖν (acc.), V. μεταστείχειν (acc.), μαστεύειν (acc.), Ar. also V. μᾰτεύειν (acc.), μεθήκειν (acc.); see seek.
Pursue, run after: P. and V. θηρεύειν, V. θηρᾶν (or mid.).
QUEST
Search: by circumlocution with the following verbs e.g. to be in quest of anything aliquid quaerere; aquam quaerere (to be in quest of water): perquirere aliquem (by making many inquiries): inquirere (by following anybody’s traces): anquirere (to take great pains in finding out): conquirere (of several objects that one is in quest of also with the accessory notion of taking much trouble about it): one that is in quest of anything conquisitor; inquisitor (the latter of one who follows the traces of any suspicious person).
Request rogatio: petitio; libellus supplex (if couched in writing Mart. 8 31 3).
Inquest or jury sworn to inquire quaestio; inquisitio (the examination of any matter in order to come to the truth veri). Vid: also EXAMINATION INQUEST.
Search: by circumlocution with the following verbs e.g. to be in quest of anything aliquid quaerere; aquam quaerere (to be in quest of water): perquirere aliquem (by making many inquiries): inquirere (by following anybody’s traces): anquirere (to take great pains in finding out): conquirere (of several objects that one is in quest of also with the accessory notion of taking much trouble about it): one that is in quest of anything conquisitor; inquisitor (the latter of one who follows the traces of any suspicious person).
Request rogatio: petitio; libellus supplex (if couched in writing Mart. 8 31 3).
Inquest or jury sworn to inquire quaestio; inquisitio (the examination of any matter in order to come to the truth veri). Vid: also EXAMINATION INQUEST.
quest (subs.):
I. A diligent, eager, search (usu. in the phr. in quest of: but often absol.):
1. expr. by subs.: (i.) quaesītĭo, f.: Psyche bent on the q. for Cupid, Psyche quaesitioni Cupidinis intenta, Apul. M. 5, p. 171: (ii.) inquīsitio, f.: absol., the q. for truth: Join, inq. atque investigatio; cf. hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque investigatio, Cic. Off. 1, 4, 13: in q. of, inquisitione: (the hyena is said) to be the only beast that rifles tombs in quest of dead bodies, ab uno animali sepulcra erui inquisitione corporum, Plin. 8, 30, 44: to send a person anywhere in q. of, mittere ad inquisitionem (with gen. of thing and in of place): cf. Amyntam cum decem triremibus in Macedoniam ad inq. novorum militum (in q. of recruits), Curt. 4, 6, fin.: dat. in the phr., take care I don't come in q. of you, sed tu cave inquisitioni mihi sis, Pl. Casin. 3, 1, fin. (iii.) quaestio, f. (in sim. phr.): tibi ne quaestioni essemus, id. Capt. 2, 2, 3: and in abl. with in, cave fuas mihi in quaestione, id. Pers. 1, 1, 52. (Note: the abl. quaesitu, Plin. 5, 9, 10, init., is an inferior reading.) (iv.) stŭdium, n.: v.PURSUIT . A person in q. of, quaesītor, m., Pacat. Pan. Theod. 28: inquisitor: one in q. of the facts of science, rerum naturae inq., Sen. Q. N. 6, 13: cf. rerum inquisitorem decet esse sapientem, Cic. fr. Acad. ap. Aug. contr. Acad. 2, 11: v. INQUIRER : INVESTIGATOR .
2. more gen. expr. by verbs: (1.) quaero, sīvi or sĭi, ītum, 3. (to be in q. of), with acc. (cf.TO SEEK ): you're the very person I was in q. of, te ipsum quaerebam, Ter. Heaut. 4, 8, 3: to go in q. of, ire quaesitum: esp. with sibi: what! you're going to risk my life in q. of praise for yourself! in mea vita tu tibi laudem is quaesitum, id. ib. 2, 3, 74. Expr. in q. of (without to be) by quaerens, quaerendo, in quaerendo: absol., I have worn out in that q. the best of my life, contrivi in quaerendo vitam atque aetatem meam, id. Ad. 5, 4, 15: I know this q. of yours (Milton), *quid nunc quaeratis scio: *(I go) to search with wandering q. (a place, id. ), *ut vagus errando quaeram: or, *tenebrasque pererrans, Quaero. (ii.) freq. quaerĭto, 1: to be in q. of a lodging, hospitium ab aliquo quaer., Pl. Poen. 3, 3, 77. (iii.) Comp., inquīro, 3, to make a q. after or through, with in and acc.: cf. totumque inquirit in orbem, Ov. M. 12, 63: absol., expr. by inquiri (pass. impers.), cf. Tac. G. 34, cf. obstitit Oceanus in se simul et in Herculem inquiri (opposed, or forbade the q., at once into its own secrets and after H.). (iv.) Esp. conquīro, 3, to make a thorough q. after (cf. TO SEARCH FOR ): he orders a q. to be made for, etc., conquiri Diodorum tota provincia jubet, Cic. Verr. 4, 19, 20: cf. conquirere et comburere vaticinios libros, Liv. 39, 16: piacula irae deum conq., Liv. 40, 37: to make a (scientific) q. into, etc., naturae primas causas conq., Cic. Tim. 14: in q. of consolation, solatia conquirens, Tac. A. 12, 68: is it worth while to go in q. of arguments? libet conq. argumenta, id. A. 14, 44: or (is it the purpose of life) to go in q. of pleasures from every source? an ut conquirat undique suavitates, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117: cf. qui non necessarias conquirerent voluptates, Caes. B. C. 3, 96: with studium: the vulgar q. of lovers is not theirs, Non illis studium vulgo conquirere amantes, Prop. 1, 2, 23. (v.) perquīro, 3: he writes to, etc., to make a q. for those vessels, scribit ad quosdam Melitenses, ut ea vasa perquirant, Cic. Verr. 4, 18, 39: the q. for (e. g. natural science), expr. by gerund: cf. Videmusne, ut pueri ne verberibus quidem a contemplandis rebus perquirendisque deterreantur? ut pulsi requirant (how they resume the q.) id. Fin. 5, 18, 48: the object of our q. is, perquiritur (also, exquiritur): cf. aut ipsa cognitio rei scientiaque perquiritur; aut agendi consilium exquiritur, id. de Or. 3, 29, 112. (vi.) rĕquīro, 3, to renew the q.; to make repeated search for: cf. Cic. loc. sup. cit.: cf. libros req., Cic. Fin. 3, 3: scripta SCtis abolita, Suet. Cal. 16: artus, ossa, Ov. M. 2, 336: (of knowledge): the Greeks, who are in q. of truth, Graios, qui vera requirunt, Lucr. 1, 641: some things hide themselves from our q., etc., quaedam requisita se occultant, et eadem forte succurrunt, Quint. 11, 2, 7: reveal to my q., etc., pande requirenti nomen terraeque, tuaeque, Ov. M. 4, 680: (passing into the sense of quest = request, q. v.). (vii.) anquīro, 3 (= to search for all round): to go in q. of some one (with a special purpose), aliquem anq. (foll. by subj. clause), Cic. Am. 23, 87: cf. omnia quae sunt ad vivendum necessaria anquirere et parare, id. Off. 1, 4, 11: adv., with eager and anxious q., satis anquisite, satisque sollicite, Gell. 1, 3, 9: comp. cf. anquisitius et exactius pressiusque, id. 1, 3, 21.
II. A judicial inquiry or investigation: expr. by the subs. quaestio, inquīsītio; and by the verbs quaero, inquīro, perquīro, anquīro: v.INQUEST : INQUISITION : EXAMINATION : INQUIRY : TRIAL .
III. The court or body (e. g. of jurymen) who make an inquisition: quaestio: cf. totam quaestionem a severitate ad clementiam transtulit, Val. Max. 8, 1, n. 6.
I. A diligent, eager, search (usu. in the phr. in quest of: but often absol.):
1. expr. by subs.: (i.) quaesītĭo, f.: Psyche bent on the q. for Cupid, Psyche quaesitioni Cupidinis intenta, Apul. M. 5, p. 171: (ii.) inquīsitio, f.: absol., the q. for truth: Join, inq. atque investigatio; cf. hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque investigatio, Cic. Off. 1, 4, 13: in q. of, inquisitione: (the hyena is said) to be the only beast that rifles tombs in quest of dead bodies, ab uno animali sepulcra erui inquisitione corporum, Plin. 8, 30, 44: to send a person anywhere in q. of, mittere ad inquisitionem (with gen. of thing and in of place): cf. Amyntam cum decem triremibus in Macedoniam ad inq. novorum militum (in q. of recruits), Curt. 4, 6, fin.: dat. in the phr., take care I don't come in q. of you, sed tu cave inquisitioni mihi sis, Pl. Casin. 3, 1, fin. (iii.) quaestio, f. (in sim. phr.): tibi ne quaestioni essemus, id. Capt. 2, 2, 3: and in abl. with in, cave fuas mihi in quaestione, id. Pers. 1, 1, 52. (Note: the abl. quaesitu, Plin. 5, 9, 10, init., is an inferior reading.) (iv.) stŭdium, n.: v.
2. more gen. expr. by verbs: (1.) quaero, sīvi or sĭi, ītum, 3. (to be in q. of), with acc. (cf.
II. A judicial inquiry or investigation: expr. by the subs. quaestio, inquīsītio; and by the verbs quaero, inquīro, perquīro, anquīro: v.
III. The court or body (