[57] Properabat in the sense and with the construction of “studebat.” Comp. σπουδάζειν, and the phrase “nihil mihi est longius,” “there is nothing for which I am more impatient,” alluded to in Forb.'s note. It must be remembered that the infinitive, whether active or passive, is really a noun constructed with the verb. ‘Amore,’ eagerness, as in 2. 10, “si tantus amor casus cognoscere nostros.”
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