First Year Latin: Preparatory to Caesar

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LESSON XLVIII. THE ACCUSATIVE (Continued). TWO ACCUSATIVES. - PERSON AND THING.

299. 1. Some Verbs of Asking, Demanding, Teaching, etc., take two Accusatives, one of the Person, the other

of the Thing; as,t~ haec rogo, I ask you this; t~ litteras doceo, I teach you (your) letters. 2. In the Passive construction the Accusative of the Person becomes the Subject, and the Accusative of the Thing is retained; as,is omnes artes edoctus est, he was taught all accomplishments.

TWO ACCUSATIVES

WITH

COMPOUNDS.

300. 1. Transitive compounds of trans may take two Accusatives, one dependent upon the Verb, the other upon the Preposition; as,mnites ÂŁliimen tradiicit, he leads his soldiers across the river.

ACCUSATIVE

OF TIME AND SPACE.

301. IJ:!!:.rationof Time and ]Jh;tent of Space are denoted by the Accusative; as,quadragint1i annos vixit, he lived forty years; arbor~B qUinquagint1iped~s altae, trees fifty feet high. 136

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