quiddam and quoddam, unumquidque and unumquodque, according as they are used as substantives or as adjectives. (See above, § 129.) Quisquam (with a few exceptions in Plautus) is used only as a substantive, for ullus supplies its place as an adjective, and the regular form of the neuter therefore is quidquam (also written quicquam). It has neither feminine nor plural. Quicunque is declined like qui, quae, quod, and has only the form quodcunque for the neuter; quisquis, on the other hand, has only quidquid (also written quicquid), being generally used in these two forms only as a substantive. The other forms of this double relative are not so frequent as those formed by the suffix

cunque.

Note. In Cicero, Pro Rosc. Am. 34., and In Verr. v. 41., we find cuicuimodi instead of cujuscujusmodi, of what kind soever. See my note on the latter

passage.

[§ 138.] Each of the two words of which unusquisque is composed is declined separately, as gen. uniuscujusque, dat. unicuique, acc. unumquemque, &c.

CHAP. XXXVI.

DECLENSION OF THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS AND OF PRONOMINALS.

[§ 139.] 1. THE possessive pronouns meus, mea, meum; tuus, tua, tuum; suus, sua, suum; noster, nostra, nostrum; vester, vestra, vestrum, are declined entirely like adjectives of three terminations. Meus makes the vocative of the masculine gender mi, as O mi pater! It is only in late writers that mi is used also for the feminine and neuter.

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Note. The ablative singular of these pronouns, especially the forms suo, sua, frequently takes the suffix pte, which answers to our word own; e. g. in Cicero, suapte manu, suopte pondere; in Plautus, meopte and tuopte ingenio; in Terence, nostrapte culpa, &c. All the cases of suus may, with the same sense, take the suffix met, which is usually followed by ipse; e. g. Liv. vi. 36.: intra suamet ipsum moenia compulere; v. 38.: terga caesa suomet ipsorum certamine impedientium fugam; xxvii. 28.: Hannibal suāmet ipse fraude captus abiit. The expression of Sallust, Jug. 85., meamet facta dicere, stands alone.

2. The possessive pronoun cujus, a, um, has, besides the nominative, only the accusative singular, cujum, cujam, cujum ; cuja, the ablative singular feminine, and cujae, cujas, the nominative and accusative plural feminine; but all these forms occur only in early Latin and legal phraseology.

3. Nostras, vestras, and cujas (i. e. belonging to our, your nation, family, or party), are regularly declined after the third declension as adjectives of one termination: genitive nostrātis, dative nostrāti, &c., plural nostrates, and neuter nostratia; e. g. verba nostratia, in Cic. Ad Fam. ii. 11.

[§ 140.] 4. The peculiar declension of the pronominal adjectives uter, utra, utrum ; alter, altěra, altĕrum; alius (neut. aliud), ullus, and nullus, has already been explained in § 49.

Caes. Bell.

Note. In early Latin there occur several instances of the regular formation of the genit. i, ae, and of the dative o, ae, and some are met with even in the best writers. Cic. De Div. ii. 13. : aliae pecudis; De Nat. Deor. ii. 26.: altero fratri; Nepos, Eum. 1.: alterae alae; Caes. Bell. Gall. v. 27. alterae legioni; Cic. Pro Rosc. Com. 16.: nulli consilii; Gall. vi. 13. nullo consilio; Propert. i. 20. 25.: nullae curae; 57. toto orbi. According to Priscian, the regular form of neuter was even more common than the other, and in a grammatical sense we find, for instance, generis neutri; but neutrius is nevertheless preferable.

ibid. iii. 9.

The compound alteruter is either declined in both words, genitive alteriusutrius, accusative alterumutrum, or only in the latter, as alterutri, alterutrum. The former method seems to have been customary chiefly in the genitive, as we now generally read in Cicero, for the other cases easily admitted of an elision. The other compounds with uter, viz. uterque, uterlibet, utervis, and utercunque, are declined entirely like uter, the suffixes being added to the cases without any change. The words unus, solus, and totus are declined like ullus.

[§ 141.] Note 1. Alter signifies the other, that is, one of two; alius, another, that is, one of many. But it must be observed, that where we use another to express general relations, the Latins use alter; e. g. detrahere alteri sui commodi causa contra naturam est, because in reality only two persons are here considered as in relation to each other.

Note 2. Uterque signifies both, that is, each of two, or one as well as the other, and is therefore plural in its meaning. The real plural utrique is used only when each of two parties consists of several individuals; e. g. Macedones-Tyrii, uni—alteri, and both together, utrique. But even good prose writers now and then use the plural utrique in speaking of only two persons or things, as Nepos, Timol. 2.: utrique Dionysii; Curtius, vii. 19. : utraeque acies; Liv. xlii. 54.: utraque oppida; and xxx. 8.: utraque cornua; but this is altogether opposed to the practice of Cicero. (See my note on Cic. in Verr. III. 60.)

CHAP. XXXVII.

THE VERB.

[§ 142.] 1. THE verb is that part of speech by which it is declared that the subject of a sentence does or suffers something. This most general difference between doing which originates in the subject, and suffering which presupposes the doing or acting of another person or thing, is the origin of the two main forms of verbs, viz. the active and passive (activum et passivum).

2. The active form comprises two kinds of verbs: transitive or active properly so called, and intransitive or neuter verbs. The difference between them is this: an intransitive verb expresses a condition or action which is not communicated from the agent to any other object; e. g. I walk, I stand, I sleep; whereas the transitive verb expresses an action which affects another person or thing (which in grammar is called the object and is commonly expressed by the accusative); e. g. I love thee, I read the letter. As far as form is concerned this difference is important, for neuter verbs cannot have a passive voice, whereas every transitive or active verb (in its proper sense) must have a passive voice, since the object of the action is the subject of the suffering; e. g. I love thee-thou art loved; I read the letter-the letter is read.

[§ 143.] Note 1. It is not meant that every transitive verb must have an object or accusative, but only that an object may be joined with it. It is obvious, that in certain cases, when no object is added, transitive verbs take the sense of intransitive ones. Thus edit, amat, when without an accusative, may be considered to be used for coenat and est in amore, and with regard to their meaning they are intransitive, though in grammar they remain transitive, since aliquid may be understood. In some cases

the difference between the transitive and intransitive meaning is expressed, even in the formation of the verbs themselves, as in jacere, iacere; pendere, pendere; albare, albēre; fugare, fugere; placare, placere; sedare, sedere, and some others of the same kind. Assuesco and consuesco (I accustom myself) have assumed an intransitive meaning, the pronoun being omitted, and the new forms assuefacio and consuefacio were devised for the transitive sense. In the same manner we have the intransitive calere, patere, stupere, and the transitive calefacere, patefacere and stupefacere.

[§ 144.] Note 2. When an accusative is found with a neuter verb, the neuter verb has either assumed a transitive meaning, and then has also a passive voice, or the accusative is used in the sense of an adverb, and is to be accounted for by some ellipsis, or by a licence of speech. (Concerning both, see § 383.)

Sometimes however a passive voice is formed from real neuter verbs, but only in the infinitive and in the third person singular, and the verb becomes impersonal, i. e. it is without any distinct subject: for instance, stari jubet, he orders (one) to stand; favetur tibi, favour is shown to thee; via excessum est, (people) went out of the way; ventum est, itum est, itur, eatur, ibitur. Thus, when in comedy the question is asked quid agitur? the humorous answer is statur, or vivitur. When the subject is to be added, it is done by means of ab, as in Livy, Romam frequenter migratum est a parentibus raptarum, which is equivalent to parentes migraverunt; and in Cicero, ejus orationi vehementer ab omnibus reclamatum est, and occurritur autem nobis et quidem a doctis et eruditis, equivalent to omnes reclamarunt and docti

occurrunt.

[§ 145.] Note 3. With transitive verbs the subject itself may become the object, e. g. moveo, I move, and moveo me, I move myself. It often occurs in Latin that the pronoun is omitted, and the transitive is thus changed into an intransitive. The verb abstineo admits of all three constructions; transitive, as in manus ab aliqua re abstineo, I keep my hands from a thing; with the pronoun of the same person, abstineo me, and intransitive, abstineo aliqua re, I abstain from a thing. There are some other verbs of this class, consisting chiefly of such as denote change; e. g., vertere and convertere, mutare, flectere and deflectere, inclinare; hence we may say, for instance, inclino rem, sol se declinat; and in an intransitive sense, dies, acies inclinat; animus inclinat ad pacem faciendam; verto rem, verto me; detrimentum in bonum vertit, ira in rabiem vertit; fortuna rei publicae mutavit; mores populi Romani magnopere mutaverunt. In like manner the following verbs are used both as transitive and intransitive, though with greater restrictions: augere, abolere, decoquere, durare, incipere, continuare, insinuare, laxare, remittere, lavare, movere (chiefly with terra, to quake, in an intrans. sense, though now and then in other connections also), praecipitare, ruere, suppeditare, turbare, vibrare. The compounds of vertere, devertere, divertere and revertere,—are used only in this reflective sense, but occur also in the passive with the same meaning.

[§ 146.] We must here observe that the passive of many words has not only a properly passive meaning, but also a reflective one, as in crucior, I torment myself; delector, I delight myself; fallor, I deceive myself; feror, I throw myself (upon something); moveor and commoveor, I move or excite myself; homines effunduntur, men rush (towards a place); vehicula franguntur, the vehicles break; lavor, I bathe (myself); inclinor, I incline; mutor, I

alter (myself); vertor, but especially de- di- and re-vertor. Many of these passive verbs are classed among the deponents, the active from which they are formed being obsolete, or because the intransitive meaning greatly differs.

[§ 147.] 3. It is a peculiarity of the Latin language, that it has a class of verbs of a passive form, but of an active (either transitive or intransitive) signification. They are called deponents (laying aside, as it were, their passive signification), e. g. consōlor, I console; imitor, I imitate; fateor, I confess; sequor, I follow; mentior, I lie; morior, I die. These verbs, even when they have a transitive signification, cannot have a passive voice, because there would be no distinct form for it.

Note. Many deponents are in fact only passives, either of obsolete actives, or of such as are still in use. The latter can be regarded as deponents only in so far as they have acquired a peculiar signification: e.g. gravor signifies originally "I am burdened," hence, "I do a thing unwillingly," "I dislike," "I hesitate;" vehor, I am carried, or I ride, equo, on horseback, curru, in a carriage. Several passives, as was remarked above, have acquired the power of deponents from their reflective signification; e. g. pascor, I feed myself; versor, I turn myself, and thence I find myself, or I am. The following deponents are in this manner derived from obsolete actives; laetor, I rejoice; proficiscor, I get myself forward, I travel; vescor, I feed myself, I eat. With regard to the greater number of deponents, however, we are obliged to believe that the Latin language, like the Greek with its verba media, in forming these middle verbs, followed peculiar laws which are unknown to us. It must be especially observed, that many deponents of the first conjugation are derived from nouns, and that they express being that which the noun denotes: e. g. ancillor, architector, argutor, aucupor, auguror, &c., as may be seen from the list in § 207.

[§ 148.] 4. Before proceeding we must notice the following special irregularities. The three verbs fio, I become, or am made, vapulo, I am beaten, and veneo, I am sold or for sale, have a passive signification, and may be used as the passives of facio, verbero, and vendo, but, like all neuter verbs, they have the active form, except that fio makes the perfect tense factus sum, so that form and meaning agree. They are called neutralia passiva. The verbs audeo, fido, gaudeo, and soleo have the passive form with an active signification in the participle of the preterite, and in the tenses formed from it: as ausus, fisus, gavisus, solitus sum, eram, &c. They may therefore be called semideponentia, which is a more appropriate name than neutro-passiva, as they are usually termed, since the fact of their being neuters cannot come here into consideration.

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