the reason is that (introducing the reason for a previous assertion and expecting ready agreement) · as is to be expected from someone who; as being · seeing as, since, inasmuch as (specifying and qualifying a situation)
köken: For quid (“what, why, well!”, interjection) + -pe, the same corroborating particle seen in nempe; see also quispiam.
aile: quippinī
Mene incepto desistere victam, nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem?