Sed quoniam omnes me quasi servum scelestum contemnitis, narrabo vobis breviter quomodo amicum e servitute redemerim atque ipse ob eam gratiam servus factus sim:
In the first clause I don’t understand how omnes fits in. It can’t be nominative because contemnitis is 2nd person, and it can’t be accusative because there are another accusative words but are singular so I’m stuck.
In the second clause I don’t understand servus. It should be nominative but sim is 1st person.
Cum homo liber Athenis viverem,
How does homo liber (as nominative) fit with viverem (1st person)?
vos omnes nominativo casu, quo vos vocabulum subauditum est vel in verbo continetur
ego servus factus sim
“homo liber”, in appositione est haec collocatio = “as a free man”
I’m not sure I completely understanding your reply, but does this make sense:
So normally of course the verb implies the subject and sometimes there is a noun for that subject and sometimes not; besides other pronoun words, like Ego, etc, there is usually a noun for the subject when the verb is in the 3rd person. But here does Omnes, being an adjective, qualifies the “you” that is implied in the verb contemnitis? I think that makes sense of it.
One reason why I’ve enjoyed, for the most part, going through Familia Romana to learn to read Latin is because it gives you a chance to practice seeing the constructions in action, so to speak, but I don’t think I’ve seen this one nor the appositive that you pointed out (which is now quite clear, hindsight being 20/20).
I still don’t quite understand “Servus” in “servus factus sim.” This doesn’t seem to be another appositive, nor is it an adj, nor a predicate nominative for that matter, but it seems to be a direct object. Hence, I would have expected “servum.”
“Servus factus est” sic in sermones anglicos vertitur “He was made a slave” vel “He became a slave”
“Servus factus sum” “I was made a slave” vel “I became a slave”.
It is a predicate noun because that’s a copulative verb. A predicate noun or adjective has the same case as the subject. Copulativum est hoc verbum, ergo praedicativum nomen. Nomen praedicativum vel adjectivum eodem casu est quam subjectum. Videhttp://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=AG+283 Videhttp://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=AG+284
Thank you that is very helpful. Just a little bit unsure how factus sim is a copulative verb since it is simply the passive subjunctive of facio right? Though it certainly makes sense of the sentence when it is understood like that. I thought only Sum, esse, etc. was copulative; what am I missing?