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| Amōrĕ dŏlōrēs pollūtō nōtūmquĕ fŭrēnsquid fēmĭnĕ possĭt[1] | Pangs from the outraging of love and the knowledge of what a frenzied woman can do. |
§ 368. The Neuter Participle of the Impersonal Passive [§ 166 (c)] is similarly used: prŏpĕrātŭr haste is made, or people hasten; prŏpĕrātum the fact that haste is made, or people's having hastened.
| Nōn perlĭtālum tĕnŭĕat cōnsŭlēs | The fact-that no favourable-sacrifice-had-been-offered had detained the consuls. |
| Summōtō cōnsŭlēs incessērunt | The consuls advanced when-a road-had-been-cleared. |
§ 369. Some Adjectives and Nouns are used in the same way.
| Post rēgem Nŭmam | After Numa's accession(after Numa (as) king.) |
| Mĭnŭit fŭrōrem vix ūnă sŏspĕs nāvĭs ăb īgnĭbus (poet.) | The saving of hardly one ship from the flames abated her madness. |
§ 370. Participles may be used in place of Dependent sentences, and then require to be translated by such in English.
| Ahālă Maelĭum rēgnum appĕtentem intĕrēmĭt | Ahala killed Mælius, because he was aiming at a tyranny. |
| Mendāci hŏmĭnī nē vērum quĭdem dīcentī crēdĭmŭs | We do not believe a liar, even if he speaks the truth. |
| Perdĭtis omnĭbŭs rēbŭs tămĕn ipsă virtūs sĕ sustentārĕ | Although everything is lost, still virtue can support potest itself. |
§ 371. Future Participle.—The Future Participle is used in some authors to denote purpose, especially after Verbs of motion.
| Nōn hōc prŏhĭbĭtūrŭs vēnī | I did not come to prevent this. |
It also, sometimes, represents the Subjunctive of Imagination in the Apodosis (rarely the Protasis) of Conditional Statements, § 239.
| Mīsī tĭbĭ lĭbrum, mīssurŭs etsī nōn exēgissēs | I have sent you the book, and I would have sent it, even if you had not demanded it. |
INFINITIVE.
§ 372. Infinitive as Subject.—In prose only with Intransitive Verbs and Neuter Adjectives:
- ↑ Here the Subject of the Participle is a Sentence, and nōtum is therefore Neut.
