Meaning of quicumque | Babel Free

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whoever, whosoever; whatever, whatsoever

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“Ita si id agitur, ut rursus in potestate omnia unius sint, quicumque is est, ei me profiteor inimicum.”

If therefore events are so developing as to put all power again in the hands of one man, whosoever that man is, I declare myself his foe.

“Eos ad Marium ac deinde, si placeat, Romam legatos ire iubet; agundarum rerum et quocumque modo belli componundi licentiam ipsis permittit.”

These he ordered to go as envoys to Marius and then, if it seemed advisable, to Rome, giving them complete freedom of action and permission to make peace in whatever manner.

“Namque is pollicitus est regi se eum interfecturum, si ei rex permitteret, ut, quodcumque vellet, liceret impune facere, fidemque de ea re more Persarum dextra dedisset.”

For he promised the king that he would kill him [Datames], if the king would allow him to do whatever he wanted with impunity and would give him a pledge to that effect with his right hand after the manner of the Persians.

“Hoc quodcumque vides, hospes, qua maxima Roma est, / ante Phrygem Aenean collis et herba fuit”

This, stranger, whatsoever you see where Rome the greatest stands, / was hill and grass before Phrygian Aeneas

“Deus autem noster in caelo, omnia quaecumque voluit fecit.”

But our God is in heaven, and whatsoever he has willed, he has done.

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