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§358. Genitive with Special Verbs

The apparent Genitive animī (really Locative) is used with a few verbs and adjectives of feeling and the like:—

  • Antiphō mē excruciat animī (Ter. Ph. 187), Antipho tortures my mind (me in my mind).
  • quī pendet animī (Tusc. 4.35), who is in suspense.
  • mē animīfallit (Lucr. 1.922), my mind deceives me.
  • So, by analogy, dēsipiēbam mentis (Pl. Epid. 138), I was out of my head.
  • aeger animī, sick at heart; cōnfūsus animī, disturbed in spirit.
  • sānus mentis aut animī (Pl. Trin. 454), sound in mind or heart.

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.