Monday, 19 January 2015

The Latin 3pl.pf. indicative

L.R. Palmer,  The Latin Language, 1954, p. 275:
(1) *-is-ont >-ĕrunt;
(2) stative -ē- + -ri > -ēre
(3) a contamination of the two types > -ērunt.

Examples:
(1) matri longa decem tulĕrunt fastidia menses. Virgil, Eclogue IV.61.

(2) urbem Romam a principio reges habuēre. Tacitus, Annales I.1.1

(3) Postquam te fata tulērunt,
ipsa Pales agros atque ipse reliquit Apollo
. Virgil, Eclogue V.34-5.

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