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expers belli, Aug. 8. 1; lenocinii neglegens, Aug. 79. 1; Vini parcissimum, Jul. 53; patientem sessoris, Jul. 61; rerum potens, Jul. 72; tenaciores eorum (sc. armorum), Jul. 67. 2.

b. The genitive of quality is sometimes attached directly to a proper noun without a common noun in apposition:

L. Cassium partis adversae, Jul. 63.

It is even found without any noun expressed:

medios et neutrius partis, Jul. 75. 1.

Many odd genitives of quality occur:

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loca. iuris ambigui, Aug. 32. 2; Cibi... minimi erat atque vulgaris fere, Aug. 76. 1; laetum maturique et prosperi reditus, Aug. 92. 1; maiores annorum quinque et triginta, Aug. 38. 3,

where by a Greek construction the genitive may be used for the ablative of comparison.

c. The genitive is attached directly to proper names without the intervention of words of relationship:

Postumiam (sc. uxorem) Servi Sulpici, Jul. 50. 1.

d. The objective genitive is freely used, often for the sake of brevity:

non sine rumore prostratae regi pudicitiae, Jul. 2; in egressu navis, Jul. 59; in petitione consulatus, Jul. 73; facultate L. Antoni ducis praebita, Aug. 15.

e. Suetonius is particularly fond of the partitive genitive, notably after neuter adjectives and pronouns :

tantum

hominum, Jul. 39. 4; Quidquid.

militum, Aug.

49.2; quicquam rei seriae, Aug. 92. 2; per secreta Thraciae, Aug. 94. 5.

After an adverb:

potentiae gloriaeque abunde, Jul. 86. 2 (quotation).

f. The appositional or epexegetical genitive is not un

common:

marum pignera, Aug. 21. 2; commoda emeritorum praemiorum, Aug. 24. 2; Domini appellationem, Aug. 53. 1; arborem palmae, Aug. 94. 11 Caesaris nomine, Aug. 97.2; pomorum et obsoniorum rerumque . missilia, Aug. 98. 3.

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The dative of purpose is, apparently, infrequent except in the gerundive construction, which is commonly used:

fraudi cuiquam fuit, Aug. 54; contemptui habuit, Aug. 93; iure dicundo, Jul. 7.1; epistulis libellisque legendis. . . vacaret, Aug. 45. 1.

h. The dative of the agent, so-called, is used for the ablative of the agent:

Campum Stellatem maioribus consecratum, Jul. 20.3; ara Octavio consecrata, Aug. 1.

i. The dative is used with similis, even of persons, where the genitive is preferred in classical prose:

commotoque similis, Aug. 51. 2.

j. The use of the dative with compound verbs is greatly extended:

monti accubans, Jul. 44.1; adhibuit cenae, Jul. 73; tumulo. ascripserant, Aug. 12; Caesari ... inesse, Jul. 1. 3; insultaturum omnium capitibus, Jul. 22. 2; invecta urbi .

gaza, Aug. 41. 1.

k. The dative is often used after verbs of separation and is not limited, as in earlier writers, to persons:

coronae fasciam detrahi, Jul. 79. 1; Antonium . . . . simulacro . . . abreptum, Aug. 17.5; extorquere possessoribus proximas domos, Aug. 56. 2; eripere legibus reum, Aug. 56. 3.

1. The accusative of the inner object is occasionally found with intransitive verbs:

Pyrricham saltaverunt, Jul. 39. 1; ludit assidue aleam, Aug. 70. 2 (quotation).

m. The accusative is often used as the direct object of certain verbs, by a transfer of meaning or a bold construction:

filio tantum quod pueritiam egresso, Aug. 63.1; insidias serat, Jul. 74. 1; barbam invaserit, Jul. 71.

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n. The accusative with pertaesus is quoted only for Suetonius:

pertaesus ignaviam suam, Jul. 7. 1; pertaesus. morum perversitatem, Aug. 62. 2 (quotation).

o. The accusative sometimes follows fungi, instead of the ablative:

munera fungerentur, Aug. 35. 3; quaesturam functi, Aug. 36; qui suam viceт fungerentur, Aug. 45. 1.

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consauciatus, Aug. 20; alia id genus, Aug. 75.

q. Like other writers of the Silver Age, Suetonius constantly uses the ablative instead of the accusative to express duration of time:

longo tempore, Jul. 85; hieme tota, Aug. 16.1; paucissimis horis, Aug. 26. 3.

r. The local ablative is freely used without a preposition :

eo capite (sc. legis), Jul. 28. 3; modicis aedibus, Jul. 46; numero futuros, Jul. 75. 1; regione Thurina, Aug. 7. 1; Autographa quadam epistula, Aug. 71. 2.

s. The modal ablative is used extensively:

specie officii, Jul. 82. 1; partim ductu partim auspiciis, Aug. 21.1; vel serio vel ioco, Aug. 53. 1; sponte atque consensu, Aug. 57. 1.

t. The causal ablative is very often used even where a verb of emotion is to be supplied:

spe novae dissensionis (sc. adductus, or the like), Jul. 3; potentiae cupiditate, Jul. 50. 1; taedio diuturnaê valitudinis, Aug. 28. 1.

u. Suetonius apparently regards as elegant the omission of the preposition with the ablative after verbs:

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potestate abiret, Jul. 20.1; occasione. abstinuit, Jul. 24. 3; genero cederet, Aug. 63. 1; decessisset via, Jul. 31. 2; egredi tabernaculo, Aug. 91. 1; petitione honorum submovebat, Jul. 28. 3.

v. The ablative absolute is found even where the words in the ablative refer to a word in a different construction in the same sentence:

C. et L....

Aug. 65. 1.

a. A, Ab:

amisit ambos, Gaio in Lycia, Lucio Massiliae defunctis,

§ 5. PREPOSITIONS

(1) Equivalent to post:

A cena, Aug. 78.1; especially with statim: ab itinere statim, Jul. 60 ; and following an adjective: vixdum firmus a gravi valitudine, Aug. 8. 1.

(2) With names of towns and islands, particularly where motion from one place to another is expressed:

ab Rhodo

transiit in Asiam, Jul. 4. 2; a Nola Bovillas usque deportarunt, Aug. 100. 2.

(3) Equivalent to a parte:

Militem neque a moribus neque a fortuna probabat, Jul. 65; Balbus . . a matre Magnum Pompeium . . . contingebat, Aug. 4. 1.

(4) Equivalent to de:

perpauca a se verba addidit, Jul. 84. 2; singula milia nummum a se dividebat, Aug. 40. 2; where a se = de suo.

(5) To indicate the duty or office:

Philemonem a manu servum, Jul. 74. 1; without the common noun: Thallo a manu, Aug. 67. 2.

(6) In other phrases:

non ab re fuerit, Aug. 94. 1.

b. Ad:

(1) Of proximity, but to denote the function:

ad cyathum... Nicomedi stetisse, Jul. 49. 2.

(2) Equivalent to apud:

*navali ad Massiliam proelio, Jul. 68. 4.

(3) To designate houses by insignia:

ad Capita Búbula, Aug. 5.

(4) To denote the occasion or circumstance:

ad occasionem aurae, Aug. 97. 3; ad subita, Aug. 84. 1; ad Kalendas Graecas, Aug. 87. 1; ad lumina, Jul. 37. 2.

(5) Equivalent to secundum:

ad arbitrium, Jul. 20. 2; ad libidinem, Jul. 76. 1; Ad hunc modum, Aug. 46.

(6) In the expression of purpose or design:

ad opprobrium vitae, Jul. 59; ad subsidia rei publicae, Jul. 20. 3; ad donum (= doni causâ), Jul. 84. 3; ad praetextum, Aug. 12.

(7) Equivalent to usque ad:

ad certum tempus, Aug. 41. 1; ad multam noctem, Aug. 78. 1.

(8) In formulas :

ad animum ei responderat, Jul. 46; ad remum datis, Aug. 16. 1; ad verbum (= avtoλeğel), Jul. 30. 4; ad summam, Aug. 71. 3.

c. Adversus: in the phrase:

Adversus incendia, Aug. 30. 1.

d. Ante:

(1) Equivalent to prae:

ante alias, Jul. 50. 2; where the phrase = prae aliis, in primis.

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