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Accusative of _the person affected_, along with the Genitive _of the person or thing toward whom the feeling is directed_; as, -- pudet mē tuī, _I am ashamed of you_ (lit. _it shames me of you_); paenitet mē hūjus factī, _I repent of this act_; eum taedet vītae, _he is weary of life_; pauperum tē miseret, _you pity the poor_.a. Instead of the Genitive of the thing we often find an Infinitive or
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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Special Verbs. paenitet paenitēre paenituit _it repents_ piget pigēre piguit _it grieves_ pudet pudēre puduit _it causes shame_ taedet taedēre taeduit _it disgusts_ miseret miserēre miseruit _it causes pity_ libet libēre libuit _it pleases_ licet licēre licuit _it is lawful_ oportet oportēre oportuit _it is fitting_ decet decēre decuit _it is becoming_ dēdecet dēdecēre dēdecuit _it is unbecoming_ rēfert rēferre rētulit _it concerns_
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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I lost one son, a four-year-old boy that a slave kidnapped, and never a trace of slave or son since. maior potitus hostium est. quod hoc est scelus? quasi in orbitatem liberos produxerim. sequere hac. reducam te ubi fuisti. neminis miserere certum est, quia mei miseret neminem.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Amphion auditus agat, nil tela nec ignes obstiterint, quin ausa luas nostrisque sub armis captivo moribundus humum diademate pulses. tu merito; ast horum miseret, quos sanguine viles coniugibus natisque infanda ad proelia raptos proicis excidio, bone rex. o quanta Cithaeron funera sanguineusque vadis, Ismene, rotabis! haec pietas, haec magna fides! nec crimina gentis mira equidem duco: sic primus sanguinis auctor incestique patrum thalami; sed fallit origo:
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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ALFENE immemor atque unanimis false sodalibus iam te nil miseret, dure, tui dulcis amiculi? iam me prodere, iam non dubitas fallere, perfide? nec facta impia fallacum hominum caelicolis placent. quae tu neglegis ac me miserum deseris in malis.
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