1526. Pronoun questions or exclamations are introduced by interrogative
pronouns, or words of pronoun origin.
Such words are: (_a._) #quis#, #quī#, #quoius#, #uter#, #quālis#,
#quantus#, #quotus#: as, #quid rīdēs?# H. _S._ 2, 5, 3, _why dost thou
laugh?_ (1144). #uter est īnsānior hōrum?# H. _S._ 2, 3, 102, _which of
these is the greater crank?_ #hōra quota est?# H. _S._ 2, 6, 44, _what’s
o’clock?_ (_b._) Or #unde#, #ubī̆#, #quō#, #quōr# or #cūr#, #quī#
ablative, _how_, #quīn#, _why not_, #quam#, _how_, #quandō#, #quotiēns#:
as, #unde venīs et quō tendis?# H. _S._ 1, 9, 62, _whence dost thou
come, and whither art thou bound?_ #deus fallī quī potuit?# _DN._ 3, 76,
_how could a god have been taken in?_ (1495). #quam bellum erat
cōnfitērī nescīre#, _DN._ 1, 84, _how pretty it would have been to own
up that you did not know_ (1495).
1527. Sometimes #quīn# loses its interrogative force, and introduces an
impatient imperative, particularly in Plautus and Terence, or an
indicative of sudden declaration of something obvious or startling: as,
(_a._) #quīn mē aspice#, Pl. _Most._ 172, _why look me over, won’t you?_
i.e. #mē aspice, quīn aspicis?# So twice in Cicero’s orations. (_b._)
#quīn discupiō dīcere#, Pl. _Tri._ 932, _why I am bursting with desire
to tell_.
1528. In Plautus, Terence, Horace, and Livy, #ut#, _how_, also is used
in questions: as, #ut valēs?# Pl. _R._ 1304, _how do you do?_ #ut sēsē
in Samniō rēs habent?# L. 10, 18, 11, _how is every thing in Samnium?_
Very commonly, and in Cicero only so, in exclamations also: as, #ut
fortūnātī sunt fabrī ferrāriī, quī apud carbōnēs adsident; semper
calent#, Pl. _R._ 531, _what lucky dogs the blacksmiths be, that sit by
redhot coals; they’re always warm_.
1529. In poetry, #quis#, #uter#, and #quantus# are found a few times
with #-ne# attached; as, #uterne ad cāsūs dubiōs fīdet sibi certius?# H.
_S._ 2, 2, 107, _which of the two in doubtful straits will better in
himself confide?_
1530. Two or more questions or exclamations are sometimes united with
one and the same verb: as,
#unde quō vēnī?# H. 3, 27, 37, _whence whither am I come?_ #quot diēs
quam frīgidīs rēbus absūmpsī#, Plin. _Ep._ 1, 9, 3, _how many days have
I frittered away in utter vapidities_. #quantae quotiēns occāsiōnēs quam
praeclārae fuērunt#, _Mil._ 38, _what great chances there were, time and
again, splendid ones too_.
[Errata:
1526 ... Such words are: (_a._) #quis#, #quī#, #quoius#
#quis# #quī#,
1527a ... #mē aspice, quīn aspicis?#
quin]