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Cist. 1. 1. 72, amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus: and elsewhere; as Ovid. Met. 3. 31: Lucan. 10. 303: Val. Fl. 6. 470: with the genitive, Tacit. Hist. 1. 11, provinciam annonæ fecundam and elsewhere, as Tacit. Ann. 6. 27: Plin. H. N. 33. 4 Colum. 9. 4: to these also belongs satur full, satisfied, satiated; with the genitive, Terent. Adelph. 5. 1. 3, sed postquam intus sum omnium rerum satur: so altilium, Horat. Sat. 2. 7. 35: lactis, Colum. 7. 4: with the ablative, Pers. Sat. 6. 71, satur anseris extis: locuples rich, with an ablative; e. g. Cic. Fin. 5. 5, Lysias oratione locuples: mancipiis, Horat. Ep. 1.6. 39: frugibus, ibid. 2. 1. 137 : with a genitive, e. g. pecuniæ, Apul. Met. 8: largus rich; as largus opum, Virg. Æn. 11. 338: anima, Stat. Theb. 3. 603: rapina, Sil. 8. 249; i. e. largiens de alieno: also with an abl., Plin. H. N. 25. 13: Plaut. Asin. 3. 3. 8: Tacit. Hist. 2. 59: 3. 58. With these some reckon macte, e. g. macte virtute in Livy and Virgil, and macte animi in Martial. But since we do not know the nature and signification of macte, it is uncertain whether it should be included here: that it is an expression of good wishes is manifest from all the places where it occurs: it will be considered hereafter, Sect. 9. § 3. n. II. 2.

b) Want, need, emptiness, freedom, destitution &c.: e. g. Inops wanting, destitute, is usual with both cases; as amicorum, Cic. Amic. 15: auxilii, Liv. 3. 7: consilii, Liv. 26. 18: humanitatis, Cic. Or. 2. 10: verbis, Cic. Brut. (Clar. Orat.) 70 : also with a, Cic. Dom. inops ab amicis eran: so Cic. Att. 1. 1. Egenus needy, poor, destitute; as, egenus cunctarum rerum, Sil. 8. 12: omnium, Liv. 9. 16: lucis, Lucret. 3. 1024: aquæ, Tac. Ann. 4. 30: egenum commeatu castellum, Tac. Ann. 12. 46. Pauper poor, with a genitive, Hor. Od. 3. 30. 11, pauper aqua: argenti, Hor. Sat. 2. 3. 142: bonorum, ibid. 1. 1. 79: with an ablative, Hor. Sat. 1. 6. 71, macro pauper agello. Liber free, properly with an ablative with or without a; as, liber a labore, or liber labore; both are usual: and it is also found with a genitive; as, liber laborum, Hor. Art. 212: and elsewhere; as Virg. Æn. 10. 154: Lucan. 4. 384: Stat. Sylv. 4. 2. 24. Vacuus empty, free, bare, without, is common with

an ablative, in Cicero and others; as, vacuus insidiis, periculo, locus: : or also with a; as, vacuus a periculo: less usual with a genitive; as Sall. Iug. 90. 1, ager frugum vacuus: urbs annonæ vacua, Mamert. in Grat. Act. ad Iulian. 24: operum, Hor. Sat. 2.2. 119: cædis, Ovid. Art. 1.642: so vacivus followed by a genitive; see hereafter. Indigus needy, indigent, which seldom occurs with a genitive, Virg. Georg. 2. 428 opis haud indiga nostræ so Lucret. 1. 61: Plin. H. N. 4. 7: 8. 40: with an ablative, Lucret. 5. 224, indigus omni vitai auxilio. Nudus bare, naked, with an ablative or with a; as Cic. Att. 7. 13, urbs nuda præsidio: so Hor. Od. 1. 14. 4: Sat. 2. 3. 184: Sil. 16. 47: Cic. Dom. 22, tam nuda respublica a magistratibus ? so elsewhere; as Cic. Verr. 4. 2: Cic. Red. Quir. 6: with a genitive; as Sall. Iug. 79. 6, per loca æqualia et nuda gignentium ventus: so arboris, Ovid. Met. 12. 512: opum, Sil. 14. 344: vox nuda corporis, Apul. Met. 5. Vanus empty, with a genitive; e. g. veri, Virg. Æn. 10. 631: voti, Sil. 12. 261: sanctitudinis, Apul. de Deo Socrat. p. 41. Elmenh. Inanis empty, void, commonly with a genitive; as Cic. Mur. 12, inanissima prudentia reperta sunt: verborum, Cic. Or. 1.9, and elsewhere: also with an ablative, e. g. re utili, Cic. Att. 2. 8: Cic. Verr. 3. 52, unus ager Agyrinensis centum septuaginta aratoribus inanior cum sit; yet here the ablative may depend on the comparative inanior, since it is poorer by a hundred-and-seventy ploughmen: the sense either way is nearly the same. Sterilis barren, unfruitful, is seldom followed by a case: as by a genitive, Tac. Hist. 1. 3, sæculum virtutum sterile: veri, Pers. 5.75 steriles plumbi lapides, Plin. H. N. 33. 7: sterilem earum (baccarum) triumphalem (laurum), ibid. 15. 30: by an ablative, Plin. Paneg. 56, nullum temporis punctum sterile beneficio: so sonitu sterila for sterilia (though it may come from sterilus, a, um: it is nearly indifferent), Lucret. 2. 844: with a, e.g. a datis, Plaut. Truc. 2. 1. 30: civitas ab aquis sterilis, Apul. Met. 1. p. 106, 41. Elmenh. Viduus destitute, deprived, void, with an ablative; as solum arboribus viduum, Colum. 2. 2: so elsewhere; e. g. Colum. 9. 4: Plin. H. N. 8: Præf. Apul. Met. 2: also with a, Virg. Cul. 372: with a geni

tive, Ovid. Am. 3. 10. 18: Sil. 2. 247: Avien. Perieg. 939. To these also belongs vacivus for vacuus; e. g. virium, Plaut. Bacch. 1. 2. 46: laboris, Terent. Heaut. 1. 1. 38: also extorris and exsul used adjectively; as, extorris regno, Liv.45.4: probably on account of the preposition ex : so extorris patria, domo, Sall. Iug. 14: and elsewhere, Liv. 9. 34: 27.37: also extorris with a, Liv. 5. 30, extorris ab solo patrio: exsul patria, Hor. Od. 2. 16. 19: where however it may be a substantive so figuratively exsul mentis domusque, Ov. Met. 9. 410, i. e. without understanding: Ciconia exsul hyemis, Publ. Syr. ap. Petron. 55, i. e. not staying with us during winter. Expers and exsors, which were noticed n. 4, but may also be reckoned here: we may also add cassus empty, destitute, bereaved of any thing, which is put in the ablative, as lumine cassus, destitute of light, i. e. dead, Virg. Æn. 2. 85: so æthere, ibid. 11. 104: dote, Plaut. Aul. 2. 2. 14: also with the genitive; e. g. luminis, Cic. Arat. 369. To these also is added captus with an ablative; as, captus oculis, blind, Cic. Tusc. 5. 40: luminibus, Liv. 9. 29: captus mente, not right in intellect, Cic. Off. 1. 27. But captus seems rather to mean weak, weakened (properly taken prisoner); therefore weak in sight, in understanding &c., and not to be correctly added here: thence caput captum leto, Virg. Æn. 11. 830 captus omnibus membris, Liv. 2, 36: Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, i. e. lamed.

7.) Further, a genitive is used after

a) verbal adjectives in ar; as Edax, e. g. tempus edax rerum, Ovid. Met. 15. 234, all-consuming time: boves multi cibi edaces, Colum. 6. 2: Capax; as Liv. 9. 16, it is related of Papirius Cursor, et vini cibique eundem capacissimum (sc. fuisse), that he was able to consume very much meat and wine: circus capax populi, Ovid. Art. 1. 136: flumen navium capax, Plin, H. N. 6. 23: triclinium capax XV convivarum, ibid. 12. 1: secreti capacissima, Plin. Ep. 1. 12, and elsewhere: Tenax ; as, tenax propositi vir, Hor. Od. 3. 3, a man tenacious of his purpose tenax vestium, Plin. H. N. 27. 5: cutis tenacior capilli, ibid. 22. 22: memoria tenacissima benefaciendi, Plin. Ep.

10.7 tenacissimi sumus eorum quæ :

percipimus, Quintil. 1. 1: Fugax; as, fugacissimus gloriæ, Sen. Ben. 4. 32: fugax ambitionis, Ovid. Trist. 4. 10. 38: rerum, ibid. 3. 2. 9: so pervicax recti, Tac. Hist. 4. 5: pervicax ira, ibid. Ann. 4. 23 : Note: capax is also followed by a dative, Plin. 2. Ep. 17, villa usibus capax: but there it answers the question for what? capacious for its uses. Also with ad; e. g. capax ad tres sextarios, Plin. H. N. 27. 2: animus ad præcepta capax, Ovid. Met. 8. 243. .

b) participles in ns, when they are adjectives and admit of degrees of comparison, as very often in Cicero we have amans, amantior, amantissimus, amans mei, tui, patriæ; amantior one who more loves; amantissimus one who most loves; patiens one who suffers, patient; impatiens one who cannot suffer, impatient; as, patiens inediæ, laboris, sitis, frigoris, vigiliæ, of hunger, labour, thirst, cold, watchfulness: impatiens inediæ, laboris &c., impatient of, unable to bear &c.: e. g. patiens inedia, vigilia, laboris, Sall. Cat. 6: amnis navium patiens, Liv. 21. 31: Plin, Ep. 5. 6. 12: and elsewhere, e. g. Virg. Georg. 2. 223, 472: Plin. Paneg. 45: impatiens laborum, Ovid. Trist. 5. 2. 3: vulneris, Virg. Æn. 11. 639: solis, pulveris, tempestatum, Tacit. Hist. 2. 99: and elsewhere. Also observans, e. g. Claudian. de IV. consul. Honor. 296: homo mei observantissimus, Cic. Q. Fr. 1. 2. 3, who pays me much respect, very attentive to me: observantissimus officiorum, Plin. Ep. 7. 30. Also adpetens, adpetentissimus: e. g. gloriæ &c.: as, adpetens gloria, Cic. Manil. 3: alieni, Sall. Cat. 5: nihil adpetentius similium sui, Cic. Amic. 14: sumus adpetentissimi honestatis, Cic. Tusc. 2. 24. Sometimes also others; as fugiens laboris, Cæs. B. Civ. 1.69: fugitans litium, Terent. Phorm. 4. 3. 18: diligens veritatis, Nep. Epam. 3, i. e. highly esteeming so, literarum, Gell. 4. 11 temperamenti, Plin. Paneg. 79: diligentissimus officii, Cic. Col. 30: so Plin. H. N. 25. 1: 32. 3: 13.4: Gell. 2. 26: 13. 24: also sitiens; as Cic. Planc. 5, deinde sitientem me virtutis tuæ deseruisti sitiens pecuniæ, Gell. 12. 2: fama, Sil. 3. 578: intelligens principis, Plin. 6. Ep. 27: cuiusvis generis, Cic, Fin, 2. 20: imminentium, Tacit.

Ann. 5. 9: audiens imperii, Plaut. Truc. 1. 2. 24. Note: audiens obedient, is often followed by a dative, where the ablative dicto precedes; as Nep. Iphic. 2, dicto audientes fuerint duci: Nep. Ages. 4, dicto audiens fuit iussis magistratuum: Cic. Verr. 1. 44, si potest tibi dicto audiens esse quisquam, if any one can obey thee: Cic. Verr. 4. 12, respondit id, quod necesse erat, scilicet dicto audientem fuisse prætori. Here dicto is the ablative, and means at the word or entreaty, and dicto audiens is by the ancients treated as a single word. So also efficiens esset voluptatis, Cic. Off. 3. 33: conficiens, e. g. eorum conficientia, Cic. Fin. 5. 27: conficientissima literarum, Cic. Flacc. 19: persequens, e. g. persequentissimus inimicitiarum, Auct. ad Herenn. 2. 19. And many others; as cognoscens, concupiens, conservans, continens, cupiens, experiens, exsequens, ferens, indignans, negligens, perferens, retinens, servans, tolerans &c.: see dictionary.

8.) To these may be added numerous other adjectives, which are sometimes found with a genitive, which must be explained by in ratione or in negotio understood.

a) Such as denote sorrow, alarm, doubt, anger, foresight, art, patience, &c.: e.g. anxius futuri, anxious for the future, Sen. Ep. 98: potentiæ, Tacit. Ann. 4. 12: sui, ibid. Hist. 3. 38: furti, Ovid. Met. 1. 623: vita, Ovid. Her. 20. 198: also with the genitive animi or mentis, i. e. in animo or in mente, e. g. animi, Sall. Fragm.: mentis, Auct. Consol. ad Liv. (see Ovid's works) 398: improvidus futuri, Tacit. Hist. 1. 88: futuri certaminis, Liv. 26. 39: mali, Plin. H. N. 36. 3: consilii, Tac. Hist. 3. 56: æger animi, e.g. Liv.1.58, consolantur ægram animi: Liv. 2. 36; 30.15: consilii,i.e. de consilio, Stat. Theb. 11. 141: Sall. Fragm. ap. Arusian.: securus odii, Tac. Agric. 6: dedecoris, ibid. Hist. 3. 41: parvæ observationis, Quint. 8. 3. 51: amorum, Virg. Æn. 1. 350 (354): famæ, Ovid. Trist. 1. 1. 49: certus, e. g. eundi, Virg. Æn. 4. 554: desciscendi, Tac. Hist. 4. 14: spei, ibid. 3: damnationis, Suet. Tiber. 61: consilii, Cic. Att. 9.2: Ovid. Met. 11. 470: incertus animi, Ter. Hec. 1.2. 46: Tac. Ann. 6. 46: sententiæ, Liv. 4. 57: veri, ibid. 23: rerum

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