Pro qualitate

Latin Construction

pro qualitate.

1. ‘Depending on what kind.’

Loci

• αʹ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.82:

praecedit vero comitaturque terribilis sonus, alias murmuri similis, alias mugitibus aut clamori humano armorumve pulsantium fragori, pro qualitatemateriae excipientis formaque vel cavernarum vel cuniculi, per quem meet

Indeed, a terrifying noise goes before and along with it, sometimes a rumbling, sometimes like a bellowing or human shouting or the clash of striking arms, depending on the quality of the matter receiving it and the shape of the caverns or the tunnel through which it passes.

• βʹ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.54:

has ubi genitalis anni stimularit hora, pandentes se quadam oscitatione impleri roscido conceptu tradunt, gravidas postea eniti, partumque concharum esse margaritas pro qualitate roris accepti.

When the annual birthing season stimulates these creatures, it is said that they, opening themselves wide with a kind of yawn, are filled with a dewy material to conceive; afterwards, the impregnated shells give birth, and the offspring of the shells are pearls based on what kind of dew is received.