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——242 SYNTAX.— VOCATIVE. g 117"nay," "nay .even," "but now," " moreoyer," may b'. re^oive^ thus, Quiddlcam de eo quod. With quid multa? quid plura? ne taulta, ne plura,scil. verba, supply dlcam ; as, Quid dlcam midta (yerod) * But, quid postea ?quid turn ? and the like, may be regarded as the nominative to seqmturunderstood ; and the phrase quid it a ? may be resolved by supplying thepreceding verb or some part oifacio.445.-- Obs. 6. Rule. The infinitive mood, or part of psentence (439), is often used as the object of a transitive verb,instead of the accusative (665 and 670, Note) ; as,Da mihi fall ere,Give me to deceive.Cupio me esse cleme ntem, I desire to be gentle,Statuerunt ut naves con seen- They determined that they wouldderent.embark.Note 2.—In such constructions, the subject of the clause is sometimes,by a Greek idiom, put in the accusative as the object of the verb; as,Nosti Marcellum, quam tardus sit ; instead of Nosti quam tardus Marcellussit. So, ilium ut vivat optant, instead of ut ille vivat optant ; or iliumvivere optant. Gr. Gram., § 150, Obs. 4.446.— Obs. 7. A few cases occur in which the accusative is put aftera noun derived from a verb, or the verbal adjectives in buhdus ; as, Quidtibi hue receptio ad te est meum virum? "Wherefore do you receivemy husba?id hitherto you?" Plaut. Quid tibi hanc additio est.Id. Vitabundus castra. Liv.447.— Obs. 8. Many verbs considered transitive in Latin, are intransitivein English, and must have a preposition supplied in translating ; as,Ut caveret me, 4 ' That he should beware of me!' On the other hand,many intransitive verbs in Latin, i. e. verbs which do not take an accusativeafter them, are rendered into English by transitive verbs ; as, Fortunafa vet fortibus, u Eortune favors the brave?N. B. For the Accusative governed by Becordor, &c, see373 ;—with another accusative, 508 ;— governed by prepositions,602, 607, 608, 613 ;—denoting time, 565, E, XLI. ;~place, 553 ; measure or distance, 573 ; in exclamations, 451.§ 117. CONSTRUCTION OF THE VOCATIVE.448.—The vocative is used to designate the person or thiDg addressed,but forms no part of the proposition with which it stands ; and it is usedeither with, or without, an interjection.449.Rule XXI. The interjections 0,heu, andproh, are construed with the vocative ;Ofonnose puer I O fair boy 1as,