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——"he§ 126 SYNTAX.—PASSIVE VEKBS. 258noticed, that that which was, or would be, the accusative after the verb inthe active voice, must be its nominative in the passive, otherwise the constructiondoes not belong to this rule. Thus, active, Narraa fa bid amsurdo; passive, Narraiur fab it la surdo. Here, fabidam, the direct objectof narraSy is changed into the nominative or subject of narratur ; and surdoremains the same in both sentences. The " latter case," in other words, theremote oVject of the active voice is never, in Latin, converted into thesubject of the passive, except in a few instances, which are manifest Grsecisms.See Greek Gram., § 154, Obs. 2. In English, however, there aresome expressions in which this is allowed. See An. & Pr. Eng. Gr., 814.Hence, where, in some cases, the Greek and the English idioms admitof two forms of expression, the Latin admits of onlj one, e. g. " This wastold to me," or, "I was told this," is rendered, into Latin by the first form :thus, Hoc mihi dictum est. But we cannot say, according to the secondform,Hoc dictus sum.526. Exc. to R. V. In poetical language, with the passive verbs induor,amicior, cingor, accingor, exuor, discingor, the accusative of thearticle of dress,