![]() Vīsum est mihi dē senectūte aliquid cōnscrībere. 84)įor it does not please me to lament my life. They ask that it be allowed them to do this. By a dative, depending on the verb or verbal phrase.With impersonal verbs and expressions that take the infinitive as an apparent subject, the personal subject of the action may be expressed: Note- This use is a development of the Complementary Infinitive ( § 456) but the infinitives approach the subject construction and may be conveniently regarded as the subjects of the impersonals.Ĥ55. What good does it do to talk boastfully unless you speak consistently? Quid attinet glōriōsē loquīnisi cōnstanter loquāre? (Fin. Such are libet, licet, oportet, decet, placet, vīsum est, pudet, piget, necesse est, opus est, etc. The infinitive is used as the apparent subject with many impersonal verbs and expressions. 4.11)įor relative clauses with quīn after verbs of hindering etc., see § 558.454. Vērī simile nōn est ut ille antepōneret (Verr. This is a noble thing, that we should love, etc. In this case a demonstrative usually precedes: Rarely, a thought or an idea is considered as a result, and is expressed by the subjunctive with ut instead of the accusative and infinitive ( § 580). Here the first ut clause is the subject of abest (§ 569.2, above) the second, a result clause after tantum ( § 537) and the third, after ūsque eō.Ĭ. So far from admiring my own works, I am difficult and captious to that degree that not Demosthenes himself satisfies me. Tantum abest ut nostra mīrēmur, ut ūsque eō difficilēs ac mōrōsī sīmus, ut nōbīs nōn satis faciatipse Dēmosthenēs. The phrase tantum abest regularly takes two clauses of result with ut: one is substantive, the subject of abest the other is adverbial, correlative with tantum. Perpessus est omnia potius quam indicāret. The statues of Canachus are too stiff to represent nature. c).Ĭanachī sīgna rigidiōra sunt quam ut imitentur vēritātem. A result clause, with or without ut, frequently follows quam after a comparative (but see § 583. It is the way of men to be unwilling for one man to excel in several things.Ī. A substantive clause of result may serve as predicate nominative after mōs est and similar expressions.Įst mōs hominum, ut nōlinteundem plūribus rēbus excellere. This too remained- for them to drag you into court.ĥ71. Illud etiam restiterat, ut tē in iūs ēdūcerent. A substantive clause of result may be in apposition with another substantive (especially a neuter pronoun). ![]() 1.82)Ĭum vidērem fore ut nōn possem (Cat. Fore (or futūrum esse) ut with a clause of result as subject is often used instead of the future infinitive active or passive so necessarily in verbs which have no supine stem. ![]() It is the fact that one man plants his vineyards in wider rows than another.Ī. (mostly poetic)Įst ut virō vir lātius ōrdinet arbusta.
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