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Compound verbs take the dative, and certain verbs take the ablative, but it is always surprising when Latin verbs take the genitive.
With the impersonal verb interest (from intersum), “it interests, concerns, is of importance,” the thing or person concerned is in the…
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Sometimes multa is not a form of our beloved multus, -a, -um, ”much, many.” Shockingly, it is also a word in its own right: multa, -ae, f. ”fine, penalty.”
aestumatio pecudum in multa lege C. Iuli P. Papiri consulum constituta est (Cicero DRP 2.60.3) “the value of herds in a fine was established by the law of the consuls Gaius Iulius and Publius Papirus.”
In Italian, multa also means “fine,” and fare la multa means “to pay the fine.”
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Deponent verbs are a bizarre feature of Latin because they have only passive forms but active meanings.
The historical explanation is that the passive endings of deponent verbs are the fossilized remnants the Indo-European middle voice, in which verbs either lacked an…
