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: 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. ... 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. 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. ... p. The Greek accusative and the adverbial accusative both 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: ... 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. |