Greetings everyone,
I'm having a problem with quidam in Chapter 54 of Suetonius' Augustus.
Interdum ob immodicas disceptantium altercationes e curia per iram se proripienti quidam ingesserunt licere oportere senatoribus de re p. loqui.
I cannot work out what quidam is supposed to go with. Is it iram?
I don't see how it can possibly go with ingesserunt, because it would have to quaedam, wouldn't it?
Quidam in Suetonius
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Re: Quidam in Suetonius
Hi and welcome, Rufus Coppertop. // Salve, Rufe Aericome. Gratus tuus adventus.
Nonnè subjectum "ingesserunt" verbi est "quidam" (sicut pronomen numeri pluralis generis masculini casu nominativo) = "certain ones [men/senators] kept pressing/repeating"
Nonnè subjectum "ingesserunt" verbi est "quidam" (sicut pronomen numeri pluralis generis masculini casu nominativo) = "certain ones [men/senators] kept pressing/repeating"
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.
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Re: Quidam in Suetonius
Gratias tibi do.
Recordatus non eram ut "quidam" pluralis quoque sit.
Recordatus non eram ut "quidam" pluralis quoque sit.