inquam defect. (only praes: inquam, inquis, inquit, inquimus, inquiunt; imperf. inquiēbat; perf. inquiī, inquīstī; fut. inquiēs, inquiet; imper. inque), to say (after one or more words of a quotation): Sy. eccum me inque. Cl. eccum hic tibi, T.: desilite, inquit, milites, Cs.: te ipso, inquam, teste: qui ubi me viderunt, ubi sunt, inquiunt, scyphi?: Romulus, Iuppiter, inquit, tuis iussus avibus, etc., L.: macte . . . inquit sententia Catonis, H.: ne faciam, inquis, Omnino versūs? (i. e. facias), H.: tum Quinctius, en, inquit mihi, haec ego patior cottidie.

—In emphatic repetition, I say, I insist: in foro, ne quis . . . in foro, inquam, Syracusis: tuas, tuas, inquam, suspiciones

— cf. ad te, inquam, H.

—Plur, they say, it is said: noluit, inquiunt, hodie agere Roscius.

—Sing., introducing an objection, it is said, one says, reply is made: nondum gustaverat, inquit, vitae suavitatem (sc. aliquis): ut purpurā fulgeamus, inquit, L.: non nosti quid, inquit, Chrysippus dicat, H.

—Repeated, or with other verbs of saying: hoc adiunxit: Pater, inquit, meus, N.: dicam equidem, Caesar inquit, quid intellegam

— vos inquit, mementote.