#uter# and #quis#.
2385. #uter#, _whether_? _which_? is used in questions about two things;
#quis# and #quī#, _who_? _what_? in questions about more than two,
though sometimes loosely of two things.
#uter est īnsānior hōrum?# H. _S._ 2, 3, 102, _which of these is the
greater crank?_ #praeclārē apud eundem est Platōnem, similiter facere
eōs quī inter sē contenderent uter potius rem pūblicam administrāret, ut
sī nautae certārent quis eōrum potissimum gubernāret#, _Off._ 1, 87, _in
the same Plato is the excellent saying that for people to fall out with
one another about which of two men should manage a state, were just as
if the crew of a ship should quarrel about which of them should be
pilot_. #ut quem velīs, nesciās#, _Att._ 16, 14, 1, _so that you don’t
know which to choose, as between Octavian and Antony_.
2386. #quis# and #quid# ask to have a thing named; #quī# and #quod# to
have it described. But see 685.
#quis Diōnem Syrācosium doctrīnīs omnibus expolīvit? nōn Platō?# _DO._
3, 139, _who refined Syracusan Dio with learning of every sort? was it
not Plato?_ #quid rīdēs#, H. _S._ 2, 5, 3, _why dost thou laugh?_
(1144). #quis fuit igitur?:: iste Chaerea.:: quī Chaerea?# T. _Eu._ 823,
_who was he then?:: your precious Chaerea.:: what Chaerea?_ #quem
frūctum petentēs scīre cupimus illa quō modō moveantur?# _Fin._ 3, 37,
_with what practical end in view do we seek to know how yon bodies in
the sky keep in motion?_