somehow or other
SOMEHOW OR OTHER
nescio quo modo: nescio quo casu: nescio quo pacto.
nescio quo modo: nescio quo casu: nescio quo pacto.
somehow or other:
1. ălĭquā (sc. viā, by some road or other): to escape s. or other, if he could, a. evolare, si posset, Cic. Verr. 1, 26, 67: if you had not done a mischief s. or other, you would have died, si non a. nocuisses, mortuus esses, Virg. E. 3, 15.
2. nescio quōmodo (lit., I know not how): good men are s. or other too sluggish, boni nescio quomodo tardiores sunt, Cic. Sest. 47, 100.
3. nescio quo pacto (like the preced.): s. or other it is always the case, nescio quo pacto semper hoc fit, id. Mur. 21, 43: others s. or other have become hardened, alii nescio quo pacto obduruerunt, Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 2. (N.B.--Such phrases as nescio quomodo, nescio quo pacto, are to be regarded as a single adverbial expression, and hence the indic.)
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1. cernuo, 1: they kept running over skins drenched with oil and throwing s.s, pelles oleo perfusas percurrebant, ibique cernuabant, Varr. in Non. 21, 8.
2. perh. *in caput se circumagere (Georg.). Phr.: lightly clad youths throw s.s between swords and spears pointed at them, nudi juvenes inter gladios se atque infestas frameas saltu jaciunt, Tac. G. 24: one who throws s.s, a tumbler: cernuus, Lucil. in Non. 21, 6: cf. petaurista (and -es), ae, m. = πεταυριστής, Varr. in Non. 56, 26.
1. ălĭquā (sc. viā, by some road or other): to escape s. or other, if he could, a. evolare, si posset, Cic. Verr. 1, 26, 67: if you had not done a mischief s. or other, you would have died, si non a. nocuisses, mortuus esses, Virg. E. 3, 15.
2. nescio quōmodo (lit., I know not how): good men are s. or other too sluggish, boni nescio quomodo tardiores sunt, Cic. Sest. 47, 100.
3. nescio quo pacto (like the preced.): s. or other it is always the case, nescio quo pacto semper hoc fit, id. Mur. 21, 43: others s. or other have become hardened, alii nescio quo pacto obduruerunt, Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 2. (N.B.--Such phrases as nescio quomodo, nescio quo pacto, are to be regarded as a single adverbial expression, and hence the indic.)
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1. cernuo, 1: they kept running over skins drenched with oil and throwing s.s, pelles oleo perfusas percurrebant, ibique cernuabant, Varr. in Non. 21, 8.
2. perh. *in caput se circumagere (Georg.). Phr.: lightly clad youths throw s.s between swords and spears pointed at them, nudi juvenes inter gladios se atque infestas frameas saltu jaciunt, Tac. G. 24: one who throws s.s, a tumbler: cernuus, Lucil. in Non. 21, 6: cf. petaurista (and -es), ae, m. = πεταυριστής, Varr. in Non. 56, 26.