Quasi, Aduerbium similitudinis. Plaut.Like as: as if it were: in a maner: as who saith: as though.Aspicimus lituras eiusmodi, quasi quædam vulnera tabularum recentia.Cic.As it were, &c.Ita vita est hominum, quasi quum ludas tesseris. Tere. The life of man is like a game at the dice. Quasi affuerim simulabo.Plaut.I wil make as though I had bene present.Quasi de-improuiso respice ad eum.Terent.Looke toward him as if thon haddest not seene him before.Quasi me pudeat istorum. Cice. As though I were ashamed of these things.Quasi tu dicas me te velle argento circunducere. Pla. Your wordes be as though you shoulde say, that, &c.Quasi verò. Cicero. Quasi verò id cupiditate defendendæ nobilitatis, aut studio partium fecerit. As though.Mihi pædagogus fuerat, quasi vti mihi foret custos.Plaut. Hora quasi septima. Suet. About seanen of the clocke.Quasi talenta ad quindecim coegi. Teren. Almost or aboute xv. talents. Quasi sua res, aut honos agatur, ita diligenter morem gerunt.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
quăsĭ (old form QVĂSEI, Tab. Bantin. lin. 10; Inscr. Orell. 2488), adv. [quamsi]. I.Lit., as if, just as, as it were (cf.: veluti, sicuti, tamquam): modo introii. Si. Quasi ego, quam dudum, rogem, as if I asked, Ter. And. 5, 2, 9: quasi vero venire debuerint,
just as though they ought to have come
, Cic. Fam. 3, 7, 3: quasi vero ille factum id esse defendat, id. Off. 3, 9, 39: philosophia laudatarum artium omnium quasi parens, id. de Or. 1, 3, 9; cf.: quasi decursus temporis, id. Fam. 3, 2, 2.— After the comparative particles, sic, ita, perinde, proinde, item, itidem, prorsus, quippe, etc.: Graecas litteras sic avide arripui, quasi diuturnam sitim explere cupiens,
as if
, Cic. Sen. 8, 26: qui, quasi sua res aut honos agatur, ita diligenter, etc., id. Quint. 2, 9: atque haec perinde loquor, quasi debueris, id. ib. 26, 83: proinde quasi nostram ipsam mentem videre et sentire possimus, id. Mil. 31, 84: item quasi salsa muriatica esse autumantur, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 31: itidem quasi occisam suem, id. Rud. 3, 2, 46: prorsus quasi silentium damnum pulchritudinis esset, Just. 1, 7, 16: quippe quasi minus perjurii contra haberent, id. 3, 7, 15.— For sic ... quasi, in late Lat., aeque ... quasi occurs, Dig. 49, 1, 3, 1.—After assimulare, to make or act as if: assimulabo, quasi nunc exeam,
will pretend to be just going out
, Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 8.— Sometimes pleon. quasi si: QVASEI SEI, Tab. Bantin. lin. 10; Inscr. Orell. 2488: quasi si esset ex se nata, Plaut. Cas. prol. 45.—II.Transf.A.About, nearly, almost (cf.: circiter, fere): quasi una aetas erat, Plaut. Capt. prol. 20 Brix ad loc.: quasi talenta ad quindecim Coëgi, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 93: quasi in extremā paginā, Cic. Or. 13, 41; id. Verr. 1, 8, 22; Suet. Calig. 58; Sall. J. 50, 3; 48, 3; id. H. 3, 26; 4, 41.—B. Quasi ... quasi, partly ... partly: qui cum diceret quasi joco, quasi serio, etc., Spart. Get. 4.