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—254 SYNTAX.—CIRCCMSTANCES.—LIMITATION. § 127-8with, per ; as, Per Th rasybulum Lyci filium, ab exercitu recipltur,Nep. ;but oftener in the ablative, by Rule XXXV.531.— Obs. 3. The passive participle in dus has the agent or doer almostalways in the dative; and besides, when it agrees with the subjectof a sentence, conveys the idea of obligation or necessity ; as, Stmelom nib us c ale an da est via leti. " The way of death (is to be, i. e.)must once be trod by all" Hor. ;Adhibenda est nobis diligentia,Diligence must be used by us " (i. e. we must use diligence), Cic. ; C a sariomnia uno tempore erant agenda, "All things had to be done byCazsar at one time." 182-6.532.— Obs. 4. The accusative of place or time, after intransitives inthe passive voice, is not governed by the verb, but by a preposition understood,or comes under other rules ; as, ttur A then as , Rule XXXVII.pugncdum est biduum, R. XLI. ; dormltur totam noctem, R. XLLVVe find, however, Tota mihi dormltur hyems ; Nodes vigilantur amarai ;Oceanus aditur, Tac.:§ 127. CONSTRUCTION OF CIRCUMSTANCES.533.—In order to express some circumstance connected with the ideaof the simple sentence, words and phrases are often thrown in betweenthe parts of a sentence in an adverbial manner, and which do not dependfor their case on any word in the sentence to which they belong, but on apreposition, or adverb, or other word, understood; or are, by commonusage, put in a particular case in certain circumstances, without governmentor dependence on any words either expressed or understood.To this may be referred circumstances : 1. Of limitation ;— 2= Of cause,manner,