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SYNTAX
cates, as steterunt diversi, xvi 30, 4 ; fiequens adesse, xiii 35, 7 ;
priores audere (piignam), xiii 36, I ; properi inferuntur, xvi 11, 4.
3 [8]. (a) Pronouns belonging to the third person are often
omitted, especially in the accus., even so as sometimes to involve
harshness or obscurity: thus se is omitted in xiii 49, 5 ; xv 27, 3 ;
XV 43, 2 ; eum, xiv 52, 3 ; eos, xv 52, 2.
(d) The indefinite quis is not confined to subordinate clauses
introduced by si, ne, &c. ; see xiii 57, 6; xiv 33, 6; xv 38, 3;
xvi 19, 5.
II. Cases.
A- Accusath'e.
4 [11]. The poetical or Greek accusative of the part concerned,
rare in prose, is employed : praeriguisse manus, xiii 35, 6 ; frigidus
artus, XV 64, 3 ; flexus genu, xvi 4, 3.
5 [10]. The accusative of the place towards which motion takes
place is used without preposition : Oceanum decurrerent, xiii 53, 3.
6 [12]. Transitive accusatives are used
{a) in apposition to the sentence, i.e. explanatory of an action
described, not of a single substantive in the sentence; xiv 53, 4;
xvi 8, I ; xvi 17, 4.
(b) after verbs expressing mental feelings ; agmen pavescere,
xiv 30, 2.
{c) after compound verbs, where a dative or a repetition of the
preposition with its proper case would be regular; malos prae-
mineret, xv 34, 3; munimenta propugnabant, xv 13, 2; genua
advolvi, XV 71, i.
7 [14]. The use of adverbial accusatives, as id temporis, xiii 18, i,
is extended, new forms being introduced, as idem aetatis, xiii 16, i.
B. Dative.
8 {a) [15]. After compound verbs expressing deprivation Tacitus
follows poets and Livy in using dative where ablative with preposi-
tion would be more usual: subtrahere oculis, xiii 17, 4 ; poenae
eximere, xiv 40, 5 ; urbi detractum, xiv 24, 7 ; &c.
{b) [21]. After compound verbs Tacitus follows poets in using
dative, rather than ad or in, as oneri adhaerentes, "xUi.^ 35, 6;
xi