W. M. Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus

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As examples of the Dative of Purpose may be noticed quoi rei ‘why?’ ‘for what purpose?’ (passim) and (with the Verb auspico）

• Rud. 717 “non hodie isti rei auspicavi”,
• Pers. 689 “lucro faciundo ego auspicavi in hunc diem”;
• Ter. Heaut. 837 “hasce ornamentis consequentur alterae (sc. minae)”.

Other examples of the Gerundive (cf. decemviri legibus scribundis, etc.) are, e.g.

• Mil. 745 “serviendae servituti ego servos instruxi mihi, hospes, non qui mi imperarent”;
• Most. 288 “purpura aetati occultandae est”.

The aetati agundae of Trin. 229 is equivalent to the ad aetatem agundam of v. 232:

“utram aetati agundae arbitrer firmiorem.
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229

“utra in parte plus sit voluptatis vitae ad aetatem agundam
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232

(for a similar use of the Genitive of the Gerund. see 5 above). From phrases like Pers. 792 “ferte aquam pedibus”, Most. 308 “cedo aquam manibus”, we cannot dissociate Curc. 578 “linteumque extersui”. This use of the Dative of Verbal Nouns of the Fourth Declension was much in favour in the homely Latin of the camp (e.g. receptui canere ‘to sound a retreat’) and of the farm (e.g. in Cato's and Varro's books on husbandry we find phrases like: “oleas esui optime condi” Varro R. R. i. 60).