New Latin Grammar eBook

Charles Edwin Bennett
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 322 pages of information about New Latin Grammar.

New Latin Grammar eBook

Charles Edwin Bennett
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 322 pages of information about New Latin Grammar.

    ut non ejectus ad alienos, sed invitatus ad tuos videare, that you may
    seem not driven out among strangers, but invited to your own friends.

  d.  To say ‘and that not’ or ‘or that not,’ the Latin regularly uses
  neve (neu); as,—­

    ut earum rerum vis minueretur, neu ponti nocerent, that the violence
    of these things might be lessened, and that they might not harm the
    bridge
;

    profugit, ne caperetur neve interficeretur, he fled, that he might not
    be captured or killed.

  e.  But neque (for neve) is sometimes used in a second Purpose Clause when
  ut stands in the first, and, after the Augustan era, even when the first
  clause is introduced by ne.

  f.  Purpose Clauses sometimes stand in apposition with a preceding noun or
  pronoun:  as,—­

    hac causa, ut pacem haberent, on this account, that they might have
    peace.

2.  A Relative Pronoun (qui) or Adverb (ubi, unde, quo) is frequently used to introduce a Purpose Clause; as,—­

    Helvetii legatos mittunt, qui dicerent, the Helvetii sent envoys to
    say
(lit. who should say);

    haec habui, de senectute quae dicerem, I had these things to say about
    old age
;

    non habebant quo se reciperent, they had no place to which to flee
    (lit. whither they might flee).

  a.  Qui in such clauses is equivalent to ut is, ut ego, etc.; ubi to ut
  ibi; unde to ut inde; quo to ut eo.

3.  Relative Clauses of purpose follow dignus, indignus, and idoneus; as,—­

    idoneus fuit nemo quem imitarere, there was no one suitable for you to
    imitate
(cf. nemo fuit quem imitarere, there was no one for you to
    imitate
);

    dignus est qui aliquando imperet, he is worthy to rule sometime.

4.  Purpose Clauses often depend upon something to be supplied from the context instead of upon the principal verb of their own sentences; as,—­

    ut haec omnia omittam, abiimus, to pass over all this, (I will say
    that
) we departed.

Clauses of Characteristic.

283. 1.  A relative clause used to express a quality or characteristic of a general or indefinite antecedent is called a Clause of Characteristic, and usually stands in the Subjunctive; as,—­

    multa sunt, quae mentem acuant, there are many things which sharpen
    the wits.

Clauses of Characteristic are opposed to those relative clauses which are used merely to state some fact about a definite antecedent, and which therefore take the Indicative; as,—­

    Cato, senex jucundus, qui Sapiens appellatus est, Cato, a delightful
    old man, who was called ’The Wise.’

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