Questions tagged [ablativus-instrumenti]
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Are vestiges or influence of the instrumental case in any way identifiable in Latin and Greek?
I believe the instrumental case was absorbed by the ablative in Latin and by the dative in Greek. Is there any way at all in which influence of the old instrumental can be seen in Latin or Greek?—...
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Can I use an instrument with the supine ablative of respect?
If a book is easy to write, I might say liber facilis est scriptu.
Here the supine ablative scriptu is an ablative of respect (ablativus respectus).
If I want to be more specific about my writing, I ...
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Hit the lamb with the flower
Page 18 of "Prosodic Phrasing in Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism" by Jessica Mayo, a doctoral dissertation that has nothing to do with Latin (but watch for the relevance, it's coming), ...
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Which agents are human?
The agent of a passive construction is in ablative, and human agents also come with the preposition a/ab.
For example, Marcus a Gnaeo occisus est but Marcus sica occisus est.
But which agents should ...
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Can the ablative take a non-human agent or a human instrument?
In the study notes for chapter 6 of Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, I read about the ablative of agent and the ablative of instrument or means:
In the passive, as we have seen, the personal agent ...
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