First Year Latin: Preparatory to Caesar

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LESSON LII. THE GENITIVE GENITIVE

(Continued).

WITH ADJECTIVES.

328. The Genitive is used with Adjectives signifying desire, knowledge, mem01'y, participation, power,fulness, and their opposites; as,\

studiosus discendi, desirous of learning peritus bellI, skilled in war; cupidus bellI, desirous of war. GENITIVE

WITH

VERBS.

329. The Genitive is used with (remember), oblivIscor (forget); 1 as,animus praeterltorum

j

memtnr,

remlnlBcor

meminit, the mind j'emembers the past.

Genitive with Impersonal Verbs.

330. The Irn personals pudet, it shames; paemtet, it causes regret, take the Accusative of the person affected, together with the Genitive of the object toward which the feeling is directed; as,pudet mil tuI, I am ashamed of you (lit. it shames me afyou).

Interest. 331. With interest, the person or thing concerned is denoted by the Genitive; as,patris interest, it concerns the fathe,'. 1 These also often govern

the Accusative,

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especially

(~f.~ ~)

of a neut, pron. or adj.


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