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• bonus liber melior est quisque quó mâior (Plin. Ep. i. 20. 4), the larger a good book is, the better (each good book is better in proportion, etc.).

  

• ambó exercitús suás quisque abeunt domós (Liv. ii. 7. 1), both armies go away, every man to his home.

  

• uterque utríque erat exercitus in cónspectú (B. G. vii. 35), each army was in sight of the other (each to each).

  

• pónite ante oculós únum quemque régum (Par. i. 11), set before your eyes each of the kings.

a. Quisque regularly stands in a dependent clause, if there is one: -

• quó quisque est sollertior, hóc docet írácundius (Rosc. Com. 31), the keener-witted a man is, the more impatiently he teaches.

NOTE: Quisque is generally postpositive:[1][That is, it does not stant first in its clause.] as, suum cuique, to every man his own.

b. Quisque is idiomatically used with Superlatives and with ordinal numerals: -

• nóbilissimus quisque, all the noblest (one after the other in the order of their nobility).[2][As, in taking things one by one off a pile, each thing is uppermost when you take it.]

  

• prímó quóque tempore (Rosc. Am. 36), at the very first opportunity.

  

• antíquissimum quodque tempus (B. G. i. 45), the most ancient times.

  

• decimus quisque (id. v. 52), one in ten.

  

• NOTE 1: Two superlatives with quisque imply a proportion: as, - sapientissimus quisque aequissimó animó moritur (Cat. M. 83), the wisest men die with the greatest equanimity.

  

• NOTE 2: Quotus quisque has the signification of how many, pray? often in a disparaging sense (how few): -

  

• • quotus enim quisque disertus? quotus quisque iúris perítus est (Planc. 62), for how few are eloquent! how few are learned in the law!

    

  • quotus enim istud quisque fécisset (Lig. 26), for how many would have done this? [i.e. scarcely anybody would have done it].