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For questions about the accusativus cum infinitivo structure.

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lūna 'nova' esse dīcitur

In this case, lūna is not only the subject of the infinitive "esse": it's the subject of the entire phrase "'nova' esse dīcitur". That is, the structure of this clause is parallel to the English trans …
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Is the complement of esse in nominative or accusative when esse is a subject?

Accusative + Subjective Infinitive seems to be grammatical Longmans' Latin Course: part III. Elementary Latin Prose, by W. Horton Spragge, says that a subjective infinitive takes an accusative subject …
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Is this really a nominativus cum infinitivo? "Parentes adire…prohibentur"

As I understand this, though, adire ad filios is the complement of prohibentur, just as in the English translation. Yes. That would mean that parentes adire ad filios is not a nominativus cum infin …
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