Timeline for "gerund + genitive" vs "gerund+accusative" ("scribendo epistulas" vs "scribendo epistularum")
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| Apr 24, 2021 at 11:28 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @tony You should ask that as a separate question. Cicero often refers to himself in the plural, and the phenomenon is worth proper exploration. | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 13:07 | comment | added | tony | @Ben Kovitz: Why would Cicero refer to himself in the plural; how would that have been received by his audience? | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 1:37 | comment | added | cnread | As to your genitive vs. dative quandary, I'll just note that in book 1, sentence 78 of the same work (De officiis), Cicero uses a very similar sentence, with basically identical word arrangement; there, because of the addition of studiique after operae, it's unambiguous that genitives are involved: sunt igitur domesticae fortitudines non inferiores militaribus; in quibus plus etiam quam in his operae studiique ponendum est. | |
| Apr 22, 2021 at 18:15 | comment | added | Unbrutal_Russian | I'm not sure if I understand the thrust of "acts of legislature", but agere simply means "to act in the world" as opposed to "to write". | |
| Apr 22, 2021 at 17:57 | history | answered | Ben Kovitz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |