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Why is accusative pronoun "te" used in this construction?
These two sentences involve different analyses, which can be shown by using the following test: replacement of the infinitive (clause) by the neuter pronoun hoc. In the first example the infinitival ...
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What's the role of the pronoun "iis" in this context?
This is often called the Dative of the Person Judging (aka Dativus iudicantis; cf. also the "Dative of Relation": e.g. see this link), which is sometimes considered as a specific case of the ...
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Greek "datives of agent" in Latin classical prose?
This is indeed found in Cicero:
Sic dissimillimis bestiolis communiter cibus quaeritur (Nat. Deor. 2.123)
Gildersleeve and Lodge mention that it's more frequently found in Tacitus, so that might be ...
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Why is "ad eum" and not a dative pronoun used in this sentence?
I agree with cmw that it is useful to compare the predicative frame of scribere with that of mittere. Let's start with the "easier" case, i.e. the one of the verb mittere. In his Oxford ...
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Why is "ad eum" and not a dative pronoun used in this sentence?
This information is easily found in Lewis and Short, a comprehensive dictionary of Latin.
Under scribo (see the parts in bold):
So freq. of written communications, letters; usually with ad aliquem (...
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What's the role of the pronoun "iis" in this context?
It's dative. "To those, who sail towards those seven stars, east is to the right, west is to the left, south is behind them.".
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Is This Noun in the Dative or Ablative
Puero is a dative in apposition to mihi. Appositives in Latin often have an adverbial component (cf. A&G 282). Here it tells us when the statement applies.
This construction is perhaps most ...
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Any idea what's going on with the middle term of this dedication?
It's all in the dative and continues the list started with spei.
Magnae Britanniae spes, deliciae, animaque desideratissima = Great Britain's hope, delight, most longed-for soul.
It is perhaps worth ...
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Why is dative used in this sentence?
I was just reading this chapter a couple of weeks ago. I thought the dative here when I read it worked like it does in English … “ in the place of a mother to the baby”- in English we would use “to…”, ...
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Why is dative used in this sentence?
I believe it's supposed to be Dative of Advantage.
So the alternate mother is of advantage ei to the baby.
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Can a "dative of agent" appear in an Ablative Absolute construction (and, more generally, in a non-verbal context)?
To the extent that the (typical) "dative of agent" has a syntactic distribution that is similar/identical to the so-called "dative of possession" (aka "dative with sum"), ...
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