Yet another problem in Bradley's Arnold

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Ex. 54, 6. At the moment when the enemy was entering the gates of your crushed and ruined city, not one of you so much as heaved a groan; when even worse than this (pl.) befalls you, who will3 pity you?

footnote 3: see 309 (which says basically that misereor takes the genitive).

Key: Quum urbis vestrae oppressae atque afflictae portas ingrediebatur (433) hostis, nemo tum vestrum ne ingemuit quidem; quum his pejora acciderint (190, i.), ecquem vestri miserebit?

Two problems:

  1. misereo seems unlikely, and § 309 gives misereor.
  2. ecquem in the accusative is quite problematic.

Any thoughts?

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I see nothing wrong with this at all. The active form used impersonally like this is quite normal isn’t it? I think of Catullus’ Alfen’ immemor …, iam te nil miseret, dure, tui dulcis amiculi?

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Ok, I understand now, misereo is always used impersonally (miseret), and that’s why ecquem is in the acc. I mistakenly saw it as a personal verb.