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§372. Indirect Object with Compounds

Intransitive verbs that govern the dative are used impersonally in the passive (§ 208. d). The dative is retained (cf. § 365):

  • cui parcī potuit (Liv. 21.14), who could be spared?
  • nōn modo nōn invidētur illī aetātī vērum etiam favētur (Off. 2.45), that age (youth) not only is not envied, but is even favored.
  • temporī serviendum est (Fam. 9.7), we must serve the exigency of the occasion.

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.