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§371. Indirect Object with Compounds

When place or motion is distinctly thought of, the verbs mentioned in § 370 regularly take a noun with a preposition:

  • inhaeret in visceribus (Tusc. 4.24), it remains fixed in the vitals.
  • homine coniūnctō mēcum (Tull. 4), a man united to me.
  • cum hōc concurrit ipse Eumenēs (Nep. Eum. 4.1), with him Eumenes himself engages in combat (runs together).
  • inserite oculōs in cūriam (Font. 43), fix your eyes on the senate-house.
  • īgnis quī est ob ōs offūsus (Tim. 14), the fire which is diffused before the sight.
  • obicitur contrā istōrum impetūs Macedonia (Font. 44), Macedonia is set to withstand their attacks. [Cf. sī quis vōbīs error obiectus (Caec. 5), if any mistake has been caused you.]
  • in segetem flamma incidit (Aen. 2.304), the fire falls upon the standing corn.

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.