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§312. Indefinite Pronouns

Quīvīs or quīlibet (any one you will), quisquam, and the corresponding adjective ūllus, any at all, are general indefinites.

Quīvīs and quīlibet are used chiefly in affirmative clauses, quisquam and ūllus in clauses where a universal negative is expressed or suggested:—

  • nōn cuivīs hominī contingit adīre Corinthum (Hor. Ep. 1.17.36), it is not every man's luck to go to Corinth. [ nōn cuiquam would mean not any man's.]
  • quemlibet modo aliquem (Acad. 2.132), anybody you will, provided it be somebody.
  • sī quisquam est timidus, is ego sum (Fam. 6.14.1), if any man is timorous, I am he.
  • sī tempus est ūllum iūre hominis necandī; (Mil. 9), if there is any occasion whatever when homicide is justifiable.

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.