W. M. Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus, V. The Verb., Participle.

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Participle.

(Tammelin: de participiis priscae Latinitatis. Helsingfors, 1889.)

The proneness of the Italic family of languages to periphrastic Tense-formation with Auxiliary Verbs is reflected in Plautus' predilection for sum with Present Participle Active, e.g.

sciens esse Poen. 1038, Ter. Andr. 508, etc.,

dicto audiens esse, (dicto) oboediens esse, obsequens esse (fieri);
Most. 141 “postilla obtegere eam neglegens fui (= neglexi)”,
Curc. 292 “quos semper videas bibentes esse in thermipolio”,
Capt. 925 “te carens dum hic fui.”

Similarly with facio¹, e.g.

Asin. 48 “propterea quod me non scientem feceris” (cf. Ter. Heaut. 872),

Amph. 1030 “quem … faciam ferventem flagris” (cf. fervefacio),
Pseud. 1041 “qui te nunc flentem facit.”

1 It has recently been suggested that calefio, etc., is merely calens fio, etc., on the type of which calefacio was formed. Similarly calē(ns)-bam, calē(ns)-bo, the second part of the Compound being Auxiliary Verbs of the same root as fio. And even amassim, prohibessim, etc., as if amans sim, prohibens sim.

Syntax of Plautus. W. M. Lindsay. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. Oxford. J. Parker and Co. 1907.

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