§369. Indirect Object with Special Verbs

Some verbs ordinarily intransitive may have an Accusative of the direct object along with the Dative of the indirect (cf. § 362. a):—

• cui cum rēx crucem minārētur (Tusc. 1.102), and when the king threatened him with the cross.
• Crētēnsibus obsidēs imperāvīt (Manil. 35), he exacted hostages of the Cretans.
• omnia sibi īgnōscere (Vell. 2.30), to pardon one's self everything.
• Ascaniōne pater Rōmānās invidet arcēs (Aen. 4.234), does the father envy Ascanius his Roman citadels? [With invideō this construction is poetic or late.]

a. With the passive voice this dative may be retained:—

• quī iam nunc sanguinem meum sibi indulgērī aequum cēnset (Liv. 40.15.16), who even now thinks it right that my blood should be granted to him as a favor.
• singulīs cēnsōribus dēnāriī trecentī imperātī sunt (Verr. 2.137), three hundred denarii were exacted of each censor.
• Scaevolae concessa est fācundiae virtūs (Quint. 12.3.9), to Scaevola has been granted excellence in oratory.