Timeline for Switches Between Direct & Indirect Speech in Suetonius-Supplemental
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| Apr 9, 2019 at 20:39 | history | edited | Cerberus♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 9, 2019 at 20:34 | comment | added | Cerberus♦ | @tony: Thanks! No: that infinitive is part of the confecerunt sentence and indirectly depends upon it: "they killed him lying down and...crying out that he was alive ( vivere )". So vivere depends on clamitantem. You couldn't read it as yet another a.c.i., for then the finite verb confecerunt would be left dangling. | |
| Apr 9, 2019 at 17:27 | comment | added | tony | Cerberus: thank you, erudite as ever: only one thing, now, generates confusion; on the eighth line, above, after "discidisse" you state [here ends indirect speech]. Immediately following is "iacentem….clamitantem se vivere"--lying...crying that he is still alive--active, indirect, present tense of the infinitive--isn't it? | |
| Apr 9, 2019 at 17:12 | vote | accept | tony | ||
| Apr 9, 2019 at 15:09 | history | answered | Cerberus♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |