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——;288 SYNTAX.—CONJUNCTIONS, i§ 149714.— Obs. 2. The supine in um is put after ether verbs besides thoseof motion ; as, dedit filiam nuptum ; cantatum provocemus. Tee,. Revocatusdefensumpatriam; divlsit copias hiemdtum. Nep.715. Obs. 3. The meaning of this supine maybe expressed by severalother parts of the verb ; as, venit or a turn opem : or 1. Venit opemorandi causa, or opis orandce. 2. Venit ad orandu?n opem, orad or an dam opem,716.an adjective noun; as,2. The Supine in u.Bule LXIV. The supine in u is put afterFacile dictu,Easy to tell, or to be told.So, nihil dictu fcedum, visuque, liaic limma tangat, intra quce puer estJuv. Difficilis res est inventu verus amicus ;— -fas est, or nefas est dictu ;—opus est scltu. Cic.717.— Obs. 4. The supine in u, being used in a passive sense, hardlyever governs any case. It is sometimes, especially in old writers, putafter verbs of motion ; as, nunc obsondtu redeo,— "from getting provisions."Plaut. Prjmus cub it u surgat (villicus), postremus cub i turneat, " let the overseer be the first to rise, and the last to go to bed? Cato.718. Obs. 5. This supine may be rendered by the infinitive or gerundwith the preposition ad; as, difficile cognitu, cognosci, or ad cognoscendumres facilis ad credendum. Cic.719. Obs. 6. The supines being nothing else but verbal nouns of thefourth declension, used only in the accusative and ablative singular, aregoverned in> these cases by prepositions understood ;—the supine in um, bythe preposition ad; and the supine in u, by the preposition in.§ 149.- CONSTRUCTION OF CONJUNCTIONS. .Y20.Eule LXV. The conjunctions et, ac, atque,nee, neque, aut, vel,and some others, couple similarcases and moods ;as,Honora patrem et matrem,Nee legit nee scribit,Honor father and mother.He neither reads nor writes.721.—EXPLANATION.—Words coupled by a conjunction under thisKule, are in the same construction, i. e. two nominatives coupled together arathe subject of the same verb, or predicates of the same subject ; and nounscoupled together in the oblique cases are governed by the same word, as inthe first example. Verbs thus coupled have the same subject or nominative,as iu the second example.