Show oneself, prove to be (of a given character) subjunctive of purpose with ut. Pliny may have sought to please Corellia Hispulla by adapting a traditional wish: Catullus writes in his wedding hymn 61.214: sit suo similis patri. Similar to, like followed here by the dative. The avo materno (adjective formed from mater) is Corellius Rufus, to whom Pliny feels perhaps closer than to the boy's father. It is in a parallel construction with cupiam (a subjunctive clause without ut introduced by necesse est). To what extent the idiom quantum in me est= as far as is in my power. In a subjunctive clause (without ut) after necesse est. The verb is also governed by cum and is in parallel construction with dubitem.ĭesire have someone’s interests at heart. Įsteem position beauty the accusatives memoriam and honorem are governed by the preposition in= for, towards, with regard to (with verbs expressing feeling). an, which introduces an indirect double question in the subjunctive ( suspexerim. or) after dubitem.īe uncertain, be in doubt followed by. Look up to, admire, respect the perfect subjunctive (along with amaverim) in an indirect double question introduced by. The superlative form of the adjective it modifies virum. The man referred to here is Corellius Rufus, Corellia's father. It modifies virum, which is in apposition to patrem, the object of suspexerim and amaverim. Since introduces a causal clause in the subjunctive ( dubitem).ĭignified important superlative form of the adjective. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Epistulae 3.3
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