quoad v. quátenus

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If this is the wrong sub-forum for this, please let me know and I’ll remove it and post elsewhere (in composition?).

I’m working on a little piece and am trying to figure out the difference between quoad and quátenus, or, rather, which one to use.

I’m trying to say:

He was a man of such good counsel that not even his enemies—as far as they were his enemies—held him in less than great honor.

In other words, he was so terrific that his enemies weren’t particularly inimical to him; you could barely call them enemies.

What I’ve got is:

Vir tam boní cónsilií erat ut né inimící quidem, quoad/quátenus inimící, eum minus quam magnó in honóre habérent.

Which is right here, quoad or quátenus? Or are they both wrong and really I should be using something else? Like utpote?

Thanks in advance for the help.

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Some other form of expression altogether, I’d say, less literal, e.g. si(quidem) recte inimici appellantur.

Same goes for minus quam magnó in honóre habérent. Just cut minus quam and negate the verb.

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Thanks so much—I still have difficulty with the fact that things have to be simplified…

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Yes, always translate the sense, not the words.

Good to have you here.