cur Adverb

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Translations

  1. why?
  2. why
  3. wherefore
  4. for what reason/purpose?
  5. on account of which?

Example Sentences

Publius Ovidius Naso

cur illi tradita sorte aequora decrescunt et ab aethere longius absunt?

~ Ovid, Metamorphoses II
Gaius Julius Caesar

, responderunt: populi Romani imperium Rhenum finire; si se invito Germanos in Galliam transire non aequum existimaret, cur sui quicquam esse imperii aut potestatis trans Rhenum postularet?

~ Caesar, Bellum Gallicum IV
Hyginus

p At aliquis dixerit, cur sphaerae circulos dividamus in partes VIII potius quam VII aut quot libuerit alias partes.

~ Hyginus, De Astronomia IV
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

'at suave est ex magno tollere acervo.' dum ex parvo nobis tantundem haurire relinquas, cur tua plus laudes cumeris granaria nostris?

~ Horace, Sermonum Liber I

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