Experience III, Lesson 33: Indirect Statements

• The subject (predicate) is in the accusative (object) from
• The verb is in one of 6 infinitive forms

  	Active	Passive
  Contemporaneous	amare infinitive	amari passive infinitive
  Antecedent	amavisse like T.4s (contracted: amasse)	amatus,a,um + [esse] (often omitted) antecedent participle agrees w/ subject of indirect statement
  Subsequent	amaturus + [esse] futurity participle	Amatum iri Passive futurity - an unchanging formula [rare]

N.B.
• Hopelessly ambiguous because of a double accusative
• The accusative and infinitive can be separated
• Relative clause = accusative + infinitive depending on an M&M verb inside
  Carolus quem credo te cognovisse est amicus noster

  If the subject of the main sentence and the indirect statement (accusative + infinitive) are the same, the subject (in the accusative) is omitted

  tu negaris (te) ducere

  Any reflexives in the indirect statement reflect back to the subject of the M&M verb

  In later (ecclesiastical / scholastic) Latin: quod, quia, quoniam = that + indicative or subjunctive

  scio quod = I know that

Third Experience Latin - Fr. Reginald Foster

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