Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader by Unknown
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tu ... facias, 'see that you draw your sword and make an attack upon her.' 24. visus, 'sight,' The use of the plural is poetic. 25. tenuem ... auram. The order of the words here is poetic. 60. 1. atque, 'as.' After adjectives and adverbs denoting likeness and unlikeness, this use of _atque_ is regular. 3. depulsa est. See the note on 4, 26. 4. sibi. See the note on 58, 11. 11. ut ... erat, 'as he had been instructed,' more literally 'as had been enjoined upon him.' An intransitive verb must be used impersonally in the passive, for it is the direct object of the active voice that becomes the subject of the passive. If the intransitive verb takes a dative in the active, this dative is kept in the passive. Notice that the corresponding English verbs are transitive, and that the dative may therefore be rendered as the object in the active construction and as the subject in the passive. 13. sensisset. See the note on _vidissent_, 36, 15. 14. sibi vitam adimeret, 'take her life.' The dative of reference is thus used after some compound verbs to name the person from whom a thing is taken. This construction is sometimes called the dative of separation. |
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