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§337. Question and Answer

In answering a double question, one member of the alternative, or some part of it, must be repeated:—

  • vīdistī an dē audītō nūntiās?—egomet vīdī; (Plaut. Merc. 902), did you see it or are you repeating something you have heard?—I saw it myself.

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.