[1906.] quamvīs, even if, though, is also sometimes used with the indicative ([1900]): as,
erat dignitāte rēgiā, quamvīs carēbat nōmine, N. 1, 2, 3, he had the authority of a king, though not the title. quamvīs tacet Hermogenēs, cantor est, H. S. 1, 3, 129, though he open not his mouth, Hermogenes remains a singer still. This use occurs twice in Lucretius, once in Cicero, Nepos, and Livy each, in Varro, in the Augustan poets, and sometimes in late writers. Not in Tacitus, Pliny the younger, Juvenal, Martial, or Suetonius.
[1907.] It may be mentioned here that the indefinite adverb quamlibet, however you please, is used in subjunctive clauses of concession or permission ([1904]) once or twice by Lucretius, Ovid, and Quintilian. Velleius has it with the participle, a construction sometimes found with quamvīs in late writers.
[tamquam.]
[1908.] tamquam, just as, introduces an indicative protasis in periods of comparison.
The tam properly belongs to the apodosis and is attracted to the protasis. tamquam has sometimes as correlative sīc or ita.
tē hortor ut tamquam poētae bonī solent, sīc tū in extrēmā parte mūneris tuī dīligentissimus sīs, QFr. 1, 1, 46, I urge you to be very particular at the end of your task, just as good poets always are. tamquam philosophōrum habent disciplinae ex ipsīs vocābula, parasītī ita ut Gnathōnicī vocentur, T. Eu. 263, that so parasites may be called Gnathonites even as schools of philosophy are named from the masters. Usually, however, ut ([1944]) or quemadmodum is used in this sense; and tamquam occurs oftenest in abridged sentences ([1057]), particularly to show that an illustration is untrue or figurative: as, Odyssīa Latīna est sīc tamquam opus aliquod Daedalī, Br. 71, the Odyssey in Latin is, you may say, a regular work of Daedalus. oculī tamquam speculātōrēs altissimum locum obtinent, DN. 2, 140, the eyes occupy the highest part, as a sort of watchmen.
[1909.] In late writers, especially in Tacitus, tamquam is often used to introduce a reason or motive, or a thought indirectly expressed: as,
invīsus tamquam plūs quam cīvīlia agitāret, Ta. 1, 12, hated on the ground that his designs were too lofty for a private citizen ([1725]). lēgātōs increpuit, tamquam nōn omnēs reōs perēgissent, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 36, he reproved the embassy ‘for not having completed the prosecution of all the defendants’ ([1852], [1725]). suspectus tamquam ipse suās incenderit aedīs, J. 3, 222, suspected of having set his own house afire.