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Romanam circumsedit; ii. 51, conjuae gravida doleravit post -- tibi vati uterus et viscera vibrantur, orare ut, C. XV. 27 simul con-gilio terrorem adjicere, et Megistanas Armemos ellit sedibus. c. g. Therocis great variet in the syntax o particles Annal. i. 2, per acies aut proscriptione cadere ii. 70, e Germanico haud minus ira quam per metum accepta Annal. Xi. 32, ut quis reperiebatur in publico aut per latebras iv. 51, no aliis in audaciam, aliis ad formidinem opportuna. - Germ. 20, sororum fliis idem apud avunculum qui ad patrem honor Annal. Vi. 22, tristra in bo=hos, laeta apud de

GET AER and astor begiuning with sommone Ormis speech, he Passes abruptly, and without regurdin the law of uniformity, to unother.

Thus ver osten the passive and active voices ure mixei up together: Annal. Vi. 44, nihil omissum quo ambiguos illiceret, promti irmarentur iv. 44 Albim transcendit, longius penetrata Germania Nam ΤΠsquam priorum. Compare Livν XXii. 6, quo Punica religione servatasdes ab Hannibale est, atque in vincula omnes conjecit. -The CCUSutive tho accusative illi the infinitive, the finito tenses of thes verbani particles, re inglei together Annal. XV. 50, dum scelera principis et nem adesse imperio, deligendumque qui-succurreret inter ε jaciunt Hist. iv. 4, promsit sententiam ut honoriscam in bonum principem, ita falsa aberant. Compare Annal. iii. 30 fato potentiae an satias capit. Annal. , V. 38, quod alii modestiam, multi, quia dijderet, quidam ut degeneris animi interpretabantur. Compuro Sallusi's Catiline 10, avaritia-superbiam, crudelitatem, deos neglegere, omnia venalia habere edocuit. -The Participio, gerund finite enses os the veri, and particles are inced Ogether Annal. i. 62, quod Tiberio haud probatum, seu cuncta Germanici in deterius trahenti, sive redebat iii. 31, assentiam-meditans, sive ut-impleret; iii., II, orationibus, quas Seneca testi cando quam honesta principeret cljactandi ingenii-vulgabat; c. 7, socors ingenium ejus in contrarium trahens callidumque et simulatorem interpretando. He passos rom

ha is callei tho obliquo narration to tho direct a Liny i. 13, 4757y Annal. iv. 40, ad ea Tiberius rincipum diversam esse sortem, falleris enim Sejane, c. Hist. iii. 2, ad ea Antonius Primus estinationem ipsis utilem. Duce tunc Pannonicoe ac IIoesico alae perrupere hostem, '' c. Seo, also tho head Syllepsis aud Zeugma, in thoremurk o the Brevit os his Stylo, V. VII. IN TH Post Tros o WonDs Tacitus indulges in variet abovo othe writers solio in chiesi tho practice of his o rugo, and ho

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senatus See bove, III. e.

i tho fame Way, a term signis ying tho dignit indissico illi hichan oneri endowed is expressed e re the nam itfel in Agrippa Postumus an Postumus Agrippa, M. Anninus Lucanus Rud Lucanus Annoeus, AsinMιs Pollio and Pollio Asinius thus Cicero, also, has Pollio Asinius , Antonius Primus and Primus Antonius dictator Cnesar aud Caesar dictator a in Cicero, eae Deiotarus in Livy, eae Prusias ;imperator Augustus, Augustus imperator; ut hen his dignit was Perpetuat, froin the age of Julius Caesar downward the illo os imperator a bes ore, in generat, that o dictator used tora placonis- fore the prope nume. Compare Suetonius coef. 76), honores nimios recepit roenomen imperatoris. O beside the common arrvngement,proetor Antistius, procurator Marius, augur Lentulus as in Liv wohave consul Emilius, consul Sulpicius . Add to these tribunus plebis,

and plebei and plebis pleoethfribunus. b. Ogether illi the common ordor of the particles, sinit an

AΝΑs TROPA Of the prepositions md conjunctions ustor the manne os the poets, Phicli is admitte Mulso though les osten, by othe writers,chion of tho Silver Age Amisiam et Lupiam amnes ΙΝΤΕR disjectas

inter et is pervias arenas, sedes inter Vestalium praeturam ΙΝΤRAstetit, unum INTRA damnum Rud thu ur USed super, intra ultra, coutra penes propter juata, apud ad nn am Annal. V. 9 vanescente

QuAMQUAM plebis ira so Cicero h Annal. i. 5, ac bus NAMQUE custodiis domum-sepserat so Li V Ver Osteny Annal. ii. 15, clasδem QUIPPE Cicero); His t. it. 17, inritabat QUI ETIAM Capitolinus ;Dial. 6 illis QUI IMMO in the writer Ver Pare, and every herellaving therars place); Annal. xi. 30 frueretur IMMO iis Plautus ;Germ. 30 durant SI QUIDEM colles Plin the oldor). c. illi tho re martis, have made above VI. hon the mixtur os Constructions may be compared the Synchysis, hicli Quintilian culis a laetetire os reords, and of hich iv likowis furnishes no a se

examples Annal. i. 10 Pompeianarum gratiam partium; ii. 65, seu Britaniacus erum et Nero potiretur; iv. 2, tradit Cluvius ardore retinendia Agrippinam potentio eo Sque provectam, ut , C.

c. V., pluribus ermonibus, nodo familiaritate juvenili Nero et rursus adductus-tracto in longum convictu, prosequitur abeuntem iii. 42, inconditam multitudinem adhuc disjecit, that is, irrconditam adhuc. Ouma also reser mesis to this head Annal. xiii. 50, acri etiam pop)ιli Romani tum libertate Dial. 31, neque enim dum ars et scientia, &C., that is nondum enim Hist. i. 20, at illis viae decumoe super portiones

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TACITUS.

Allis eo, ithout an hesitation, that the peculia character of Tacitus' stylo is seen mos in the concis brevit of his language; and thos who havo ooked into it more closely, ill the have evsu explore ali ho inmost recesse of his somelimes abrupi diction, Preser Tacitus to allisther inriter sor his very reason, an admire thodivino aspectis his genius, hicli, the Deare the approach it, and the more intenti the hau upo iis contemplation, o much themor deopi penetratos themiud of the oholders. ut Dyou ask

most important passagorior discovering tho Deling Dom hic this peculiarit os in Stylo os Tacitus proce de is that in ille Germania 33 , here,

With a deo emotio achelas ove filio D, he says, naneat quoeso duretque Renibbus, .c. OmPare, algo, Annal. iii. 55, at tho Dd, and Agr. 2. x dedimus Vr feras grande Putienti documentum demto per inquisitiones et loquendi audiendi commercio, d e. mpei ipsos Macta retatis terminos per silentium venimus.

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sed non Tiberius omisit incepta chap. XXXViii. non enim Tibe rium, quamquam triennio post caedem Sejani-tempus, preces, satias mitigabant Hist. ii. 70, at non Vitellius sezit oculos Frequently a ordis placodirst, to impi taciti the converse of what is stated as, Annal. iii. 2, miserat duas pria torias eo hories Caesar, but dii no como himself Notonfrequently ome articio is implied in the ordwhicli is putirst as, Annal. ii. 39, ivere adhuc Agrippam chaP. xl. postremo dat negotium Sallustio laudem certus consilii). II. Tho Orco of tho langvago dependsisten O SINGLE ORDS. R. On FREQUENTATIVES, whicli are repentedly used by Tacitus and

Sallust): somo, indoed he alon emplOyS, RS infensare, edemtare pin contempora muthors also, und the writers of a later age, e findappellitare, adsultare, auctitare, despectare, suspectare i. e. SUSPectum habere), emtitare, mansitare, praetentare. ut it must e mel observed that it is novalway tho sorce of the language hichi pendson these ords; ut that the uiso osten expres an attempi, und thata ain ne a loqetti coeptare , and in his Way also, assistatio brevityof the stylo. b. O singlo Oias ut AB sOLUTELY Hist. iii. 55 Latium i. e. , us Latii emternis dilargiri Annal. ii. 32, saeto Tarpeio dejectus

est compare iv. 29, robur et saetum aut paricidarum poenas minitari). Agr. 22, nec unquam per alio gesta avidus intercepit, that is, throughgreedinos of prais unx ory. Hist. V. I, occupare principem adhuc vacuum, that is, not elingaged by another, hos favor does not et incline to any one So e haVe mulier vacua, Armat. Xiii. 44 vacuus adulter, xi. 12. Hist. i. 76, ne Aquitania quidem-diu mansit, thatis, continuex ithsul Annal. ii. 33, eaecessit Fronto that is, ontheyond, o digressed stom, the subjectrae r in Senate , et postulavit, c. Compare Quintil. iii. 9 4, egressio, vel, quod sitatius esse coepit, eaecessus. Diat. 21, idetur mihi inter Menenios-studuisse,nstor the anne of the Silver Age, in hicli studere is sed absolutoly so the stud of tho isti rhetorio.

c. O in ΜΕΑΝΙΝ of the word themselves as examplos of whichwo ma adduco rimari, introspicere, dispicere, gliscere adolescere, erescere, augeri, and augere illi a PaSSiVE Signification) scrvus, atror, fresae, truae, truculentus, grandis, ingeris enormis, nil hicli,ord houses ostener than the writers. III. BY ΑΝ ΝΠsUAL OD OF SINI UMBER, CASES ADJECTIVES, MOoDs, AN PARTICLES, tho languago is rondere more effectivo ind

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ITA FORCE AN BREVITY. XXXV expresses various hiud and modes os action: Anna , . 74 formam

vitae iniit, quam postea celebrem miserice te omum et audaciae hominum fecerunt xiv. 4 ferendas parentium iracundias Geram. 2, ipsos Germanos indigenas crediderim, minimetue aliarum gentium adventibus

est hospitiis latos. b. Thero is a peculiar sorce and brevit in the uso of them si Tivg

concerning the ΝΟΜΙΝΑTIv Put abSolutely, Se below, unde ELLIPSIS, b. a. dolor, ira Annal , v. 36, non longam sui absentiam et cuncta in republica perinde immota ac prospera forρ sui reser to ero, hose

great de of his own importunc is pluin Domini accouuisy xi. 24, conditor nostri Romulus it. 54, nostri origo a Roman is speahing). The genitive plural expresses custo. Anna , ii. 1, Phraates-cuncta venerantium osscia ad Augustum ei terat whicli are oti tot offer-ed by thoso ho revere iace thei priuce); i. 40, supplicia civium e fugit by hicli citigens are on to e Tected . To expres thodispositions an peculiarities of men the genitivo is sed more frequently than in thermuthors, and in a stili more unusual way in the plura number Anna L, iv. 3l, Tiberius compositus alias et velut eluctantium verborum. The Partitive genitive is sed more exton ivel than in the writers avd iis uso increnses the orce and e spicuit O tho arrative the fame remar applies to the genitivo

oinex illi pronouns. Annal , ii. 17 navium quasdam circumveners barbari praefecto cohortis et plerisque centurionum interfectis ς Chap. xviii. Romanorum nemo id auctoritatis aderat, ut, c. O me sudi temporis, solitudinis, honoris, Hist. iv. 23, neque unquam id malorum-ut, SEC. Ingens rerum, praecipuus circumveniendi, prinὶ ua

genitivo whicli is called objectivo, is Oined illi the subjectivo: mst. ,

iii. 10, ut proditionis ira militum Annal. xii. 26, Britannici fortunae moeror Cicero canum adulatio dominorum). To his clas be- long that ver dissiculi passage, Anna , xv. 61 itur etiam in principis laudes repetuum venerantium by thos Mao reverene e the princoon accountis his ii ' restoration compar xi. 23, et studiis diversis

apud principem certabatur adseverantium, non adco aegram Italiam, ut,&c. Compare, O THE POETICA COMPLEXIo OP Η STYLE OPTAciTUs III., a The genitive of the passivo participio in endus, joinod with the fame casse of the substantive or os the gerund withthe case hichiolong to the verb), the word causa bein omitted, is sed by no riter ostener than by Tacitus, in his stron destre os

brevi ty, t express tho end whicli an on pursues Annal , ii. 59, AEgyptum prosciscitur cognoscendae antiqrlitatis iv. 2, neque senatorio ambitu istinebat clientes suos honoribus aut prorinciis ornandi. Ostho amo kin are genitivos otaed with substantives Hist. iii. 40,

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agendi empora consultando consumsit chaP. l. Silvanum socordem bello et dies rerum verbis ferentem Annal , i. 58, non hic mihi primus erga populum Romanum idei et constantiae sc ostentandae tales. c. Ver similaesis the use of the DATIvΕ, whicli Tacitus has employ-od more frequently than any the writer, and in a more varied man-nΘr, to XPreS an en an advantage, und that, Oo, in Euch a waythat in his mode of speahing, ulso, he has respectu brevity ascit is

commoni suid, triumvir reipublico constituendoe, dividendis agris, comitia regi creando, o Annal. Vi. 37, cum ille equum placando amni adornasset Chap. xliii. ubi data de reddendae dominationi venisse, adlevatur animum Hist. iii. 20, num-cetera e rιgnandis urbibus utilia affulissent Annal. xiv. 3, additurum-defuncto templum et aras et cetera ostentando pietati compar Liv, XXX. 6, quo restinguendo igni forent portantes); Annal. ii. 57, amici accendendis ostensionibus callidi Annal. , iv. 59, repertus est-nudus aerecitando corpori. Annal. xii. 46, diem locumque foederi accepit i. 51, incessit itineri et proelio To the fame classietori obtentui, ostentui, inrisui, derisui, usui, metui, despectui potui, victui, estitui, indutui, visui, venatui esse, hicli ure so the mos par rare in the writers. For the est, se below, here Graecism ure realed os

d. ho Accus AT iv is ostencioined illi Vorbs hicli expros motion ithout a preposition, after in manne of tho Groelis and of thopoeis; a ripam accedere Cicero), oppidum inrumpere Caesar, Sallust), incursare Germaniam Livy , involare castra Cicero, rostra advolare ), advolvi genua Sallust), incidere locum, incidere aliquem inuliquem , adventare propinqua Seleucloe, Annal. Vi. 44 propinquare campos Sallust , eniti aggerem Livy , escendere suggestum Cicero, Livy, and thers), evadere angustias LiVy), Iabi pugnam, egredi tentoria Sallust), Mire lubricum juvenitie. his remari applie tollis following passages, hici depari from Common usage: Hist. , V., 76, Germanos-non juberi, Ou egi; i. 16, gentibus, quo regnantur Pliny the oldery Annal. iii 39, is proetimum zercitum praesidebat;

Germ. 43, vertices montium-insederunt Annal. xi. 20, insignia

triumphi indulgere, i. e. Concedere; ascis it were to indulge any onowith thom and sorio teli them Juvenui se indulgere, i. e. Permittor alicui); similari Tacitu USe propugnare, potiri, fungi, vesci, disserere, fremere aliq/ι an rem but ho likewiso that thusa might ad force to tho narrative, has ometimes sed repositions heroth common langvago employ the accusative Hist. iv. 48, ea accede quam erissime e ediam Germ. 34, everentius isum de actis deorum credere quam scire. Concerning the ABLATI v of substantivos

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ITA FORCE AN BREUITY. XXXVII

stantivos, limo tho Orco os genitives, oris otho constructions chlesyri expressing thos things hicli elongo lavds, cities, o mei:

Annal. iii. 43, Trevericus tumultus iv. 20, provincialia toeorum crimina XV. 23, Actiaca religis; V. 3, municipalis adulter Hist. . iv. 15 Calanne Cati imperatoriSDe editiones Annal. i. 6, nove dicalia odia Chap. Vii. uetorius ambitus senilis adoptio 33, muliebres ensiones iv. 2, senatorius ambilus, ObjectiVely, a Chap. Xii. municipalis ambitio; xii. 51, metus hostilis ii. 41, vacui aeterno metu; Dial. 29, histrionalis favor No ne has ostener sed his manneros speining but man simila examples ure also ound in the olderwriters us in Cicero, pro Lege Manilia, ii. Ostiens incommodum pC es. D. Q ii. 32 Corfniensis ignominia Cic. Fam . it. 17, metus Parthicus objectively. s. The INFINITIv is ver frequently used by Tacitus sor the ahoos his amo brevit an force Tho infinitivo, hicli is assed historices, is sed os tener than by the writers a Liv an Sallust; See, O TH VARIE TY, C. V. f. uni it is Oine also illi artucles, audiso Only illi demonstrativo Particles, ascis me custom ofossior Titers but even illi copulatives Hist. iii. 10, ubi crudescere seditio et, conviciis ac probris ad tela et manus transibant injici caten Flaviano libet Annal. xi. 34, jam erat in adspectu Messallina-cum obstrepere accusator, c. Sometimescit includes in iis is felle and posse, o solere misi. V. 15 Civilis instare fortunae, Cerialis abolere sc volebat ignominiam Germ. 7, ' prooeimo pignora, unde femi-etrarum titulatus audiri, unde vagitus infantium se possunt). Comparo the similaris of the indicativo, subjunctivo, and participio bo-low h. i.). ymo writer is tho infinitivo ostener Oined with verbs,

whicli are commoni constructed with the Particle ut, ne, quominus, quod Or in ome ther mantior Thias e findisse in tho old rwriter uiso, but les frequently hortari, impellere, proecipere, permittere, OStulare, imperare, monere, maturare, proliabere, instare, erube-8cere, conMutire, destinare, pergere Annal. xi. 4 Livy, and Others), pergitque addere reos equites Romanorum ChuP. XXXiV., instabat- NarcisD/s aperire ambages A simila use of the solio ing ord is adoptod by the Poet suadere, incumbere, mandare, orare, urgere, ambiri, accingi, arcere, persistere, dare, adigere, deesse; u Hist. iii . , 58, nec deerat ipse voltu, voce, lacrimis misericordiam elicere but thocommon construction is Annal. xiv. 39, nec defuit Polyclitus quominus -incederet . Tncitus alone Ppe ars thus O avo Sed percellere, perpellere, armulant, censere, nuntiarae, denuntiare, scriberes i. e. nuntio, scripto imperare), impetrare, alicere, inducere i. e. PermoVere , componere, pangere, Obsistere Germ. 34, obstiti Oceanus τί in se

rimul atque in Herculem inquiri , inlacrimare Annal , i. 7I , inlacria

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XXXVII ON THE STYLE O TACITUS.mabunt τοῦ quondam forensem-muliebri fraude cecidisse. Seo OsTHE POETICA COMPLEXION, C. III., α, . o the Verbs deferre an ineusare the infinitive is Oinod in the place of a genitive oristho partici quod Annal. ii. 27 Libo Drusus defertur moliri res

novas iii. 38, neque minus Rhoemetalcen-incusans popularium injurias inultas sinere compare below, O GRAECIs ess). O tho Other hand quod an ut are Sometimes employed in a more unusual mun- ne for the accusative illi the infinitive creditum quod oluisset; quibus jusserat qu-resisterent. See bovΘ, d. neu the end. g. The ΝDICATIV is osten, Ven in the obliqua oratio, oine totho partici dum us Annal. ii. 81 Piso oravit uti traditis armis maneret in castello, dum Coesar cetri Syriam permittere consulit ιr. Forme writers have Seldom spolien thus and so in generat, the indicativo is ound more sesequently in Tacitus than in ther historical

writerS, hen Sentences arct inserte in the obliqua oratio ascis theyprocoede froin the in of the writer himself us Hist. iv. 16, secum cohorte, cui proeerat umultum compressurum ΝΟ ne more-over has ostener sed the indicative so the subjunctivo, in thalaindo sentences hicli indicato that that hicli is implied in tho condition ad ulmos happeuod, a Wo have it in Livy, who no vnsrequently spe alis thus iii. 19, tinc nisi Latini arma sumsissent- deleti eramus, w were lost. Generali nisi more raret si joinedwith tho luperfeci, an so metimes illi tho imperfeci, egins hocondition, and tho idea hicli is limito by it os tone procedes than follows in the impersect me luperfeci, and ometimes the perfeci:

Annal. X i. 10, reciperare Armeniam avebat, ni a Vibio Marso-cohibitus foret; i. 63, trudebanturque in paludem-ni Caesa legiones instruaeisset Hist. i. 16, si immensum imperii corpus stare-sine rectore posset, dignus eram, a quo res publica inciperet. Annal. Xi., 37, ni caedem ejus roperavisset, verterat pernicies in accusatorem thus Cicero, pro clare viceramus, nisi-Lepidus recepisset Antonium . Hist. i. 64, prope in proelium inarsere, ni Valens admonuisset thus

Lisy, ii. 10 pons iter poene hostibus dedit, ni unus vir fuisset). Instances conformed to the common usage of the langvago arodes frequent in Tacitus. To the sume clas belong the EXALLAGE O THE IMPERFEC FORTAR LUPERFgo whichris also used by tho olde writers, ns Annal. , x i. 37, si statim deditus traderer traditus essem, suissem , neque mea fortuna, neque tua gloria inclaret isset. Compare Hist. i. 48, Piso interfectus unum et tricesimum etatis annum e letat. In the Us EO TEN fg in generat there is great orce Tho historices proserit is vor frequently used tali us an example of at the est, Annal. i. 21 sollowing the writer os the forme age, hieny the Poets, ho

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custom: gr. 9, haud semper errat fama aliquando et elegit. 2. In tho place of the lupersect Hist. i. 53, hunc juvenem Galba-legioni praeposuit; oz-ut peculatorem sagitari jussu praeposuerat, jusserat olim). 3. Tho infinitivo present for the infinitive future Annal. ,i1., 34 Lucius Piso-abire se et cedere urbe-festabatur. 4. The perfectfor tho insultivo suturo iv. 28, non enim se cordem principis-uno socio cogitasse ho ould not have thought of it), and Cicero sumishus ver simila example, Phil. ii. 3. h. The su BauscTIV has noton requently n prognant ense, in-VOlVin posse, velle, opus esse compare the remacts on in historical

infinitivo and tho participie). orand examplos of the fame hingin Cicero, Livy, and thers: gr. 17, cum Cerialis quidem alterius successoris ci/ram famamque obruisset obrui potuisset), sustinuit gumque molem Iulius Frontinus Annal. i. 11 Tiberioque etiam in rebus quas non occulteret occulere Vellet)-obscura verba Agr. 22, eae iracr/ndia nihil supererat secretum et silentium ejus non timeres non erat causa cur timeres). O hicli me Common PhraSe Τιm cerneres, crederes, appronches e mearly There is a similaritat les frequontus os in indicativo Annal. iv. 40, si dubitatione Augusti movemur nos moveri sus est , quanto validius est, quod, C. ii. 34, Lucius Pis abire se et cedere urbe cessurum , victurum in aliquo abdito et longinqris rure testabatur simul curiam relinquebat, i. e. in eo erat ut relinqueret Comparetist. i. 46, militare otium redimebant. i. The PARTI cIPL does much to incrense Orco O langvago and

conciso brevit os style, and iis se is more varied in Tacitus than in

a. The Orsec participio os deponent verbs is ut indefinitively

ἀοριστως so the present Participio, a ratus, veritus, an Other are ven in the ordinata langvago Hist. ii. 96 in hunc modum etiam Vitellius apud milites disseruit proetorianos nuper Gauctoratos insectatus anil also, a Liv had used itiosore so tho suturo passivo a ticiple, hichias tho orco D present partici Ple Annal. XVi. 21,Nero virtutem ipsam eas indere concupivit interfecto interficiendo Thrasea Paeto Tho Present participio notinfrequently expresses annitompi compare the romatas oti tho subjunctivo and historica infinitive): Hist. ii. 18, retinenti duci tela intentare. It is usod sor thoinfinitive: Annal. xiii. 50, sublatis portoriis sequens thus Cicero

usos consequens, ut illi esse ni ded) ι tributomim abolitio eaepostularetur. the witio oris substantivo Annal. iii. 40, disserebant de -superbia proesidentium, i. e. Praesidum. Compar Sen. Clem. 19, nihil magis decorium regenti quam emensia Thore is uisimila brev

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3, incusabatur facile toleraturus etsilium delecta Lesbo quod iacito

toleraturus esset): Hist..ii. 74, ceters legiones eculettroe perabantur

sperabantur ore ut sequerentur . The Perseo passive participi is uso for tho finito tenses of tho verb: Annal. Vi. 32, cupitqιm et Tiberis i. e. cupiebat; and socii ta es the place os a substantive asin Plautus); Annal. iv. 3, nepotes adulti moram cupitis adferebant.

The neuter of the futuro passivo participis is oluod illi tho orbhabere, ustor tho manner of the Silver Age like the persect participio,

oratum se habeo, an us e rea in Cicero, cedem tuendam habere :dicendum, respondendum, ibendum habere.

3. Ostener, and stili more oldi than the writers, ho se thoperfeci passive participio in tho luce of u abstruct substantive,

when it refers ven to inanimate objecis Annal. i. 8, cum Occisus dictator Caesa pulcherrimum facinus videretur Annal. H. 27, genus illi decorum, vivida senectus et non permissa provincia dignationem addiderat. Compare Liv xxVii. 37, liberatas religione mentes turbavit rursus nuntiatum, Frusinone infantem naturi esse quadrimo

parem.

γ. Adjectives endiniiniis are expressedi persect passive participios in tho amo way adjectives hicli indicate a certain eas audperpetuit are expressed by latur activo participies, and others HSO, by future passive articipies Agr. 18, nihil arduum aut invictum eredere so Sallust); Annal. i. 28, noctem minacem et in celus er turam fors lenivit iv. 38, pulcherrima esstgies et mansurast laSting, endiaring); Dial. 22,frmus sane paries et duraturus Annal. ii. 38 8 Livy the poets, and the writers of the Silver Age), quamvis domus Hortensii pudendam ad inopiam delaberetur saedam turpem; but it is sensit porcoived that in participi is more forcible); Hist. , iii. 84, pudenda latebra semet occultans. d. blatives hicli are callod absolute aro sed in an unusual Way, an genorali ellipticatly but examplos of tho sume ining re notwantinii the olde writers. The mos uncommon case is that ostho futuro active articipio employed in his V Hist. ii. 32, -- rupturis fari infestis nationibus. Ver osten in participio of the substantive ver ων musti supplied ascit ere, in thought when a

substantivo is soland put absolutelyy oinod with an adjective or ima pronoun Hist. iii. 26, incipere oppugnationem-arduum, et nullo jvaesa subsidio anceps Annal. xi. 23, ν fecisse Mim indigenas consanguineis populis that is, hen et in nation os Italy wer of thosam race a in RomuΠS; Livy, XXXVi. 6, labant disciplina et multomι eo fatu, qui diriturnus esse non posset. The ollipsis is harshe when the adjective or substantive is sed alone in his mamner Annal. i. 6, uata periculo SasCla Seu vera promeret, i. e. cum