In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James E. Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I've been scratching my head over the use of "quem" in line 11 of Aeneid 4. >The passage: > >"Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent! >Quis novus hic nostris successit sedibus hospes, 10 >quem sese ore ferens, quam forti pectore et armis!" > >I'm taking "quae" in line 9 as an interrogative adjective in an >exclamation; "Quis" as interrogative pronoun with exclamatory force; >"quam" as an exclamatory; the "quem" I don't see...Why accusative? Predicative in agreement with 'sese': literally, 'as what a man bearing himself in countenance', i.e. (as Tamburlaine says of Theridamas) 'With what a majesty he rears his looks'; I should thought that unlike the others it is a pure exclamation parallel to 'quam forti pectore et armis'.
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