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§304. Relative Pronouns

A Relative Pronoun indicates a relation between its own clause and some substantive. This substantive is called the Antecedent of the relative.

Thus, in the sentence—

  • eum nihil dēlectābat quod fās esset (Mil. 43), nothing pleased him which was right,

the relative quod connects its antecedent nihil with the predicate fās esset, indicating a relation between the two.

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.