W. M. Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus, II. The Cases of the Noun., para 70

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desisto, e.g. Mil. 737 “istis rebus desisti decet”;
supersedeo, e.g. Epid. 39 “supersede istis rebus iam”;
emungo ‘swindle,’ e.g. Bacch. 1101 “me auro esse emunctum”;
tango ‘swindle,’ e.g. Poen. 1286 “aere militari tetigero lenunculum”;
circumduco ‘swindle,’ e.g. Poen. 1287 “nanctus est hominem mina quem argenti circumduceret”;
tondeo ‘swindle,’ Bacch. 242 “itaque tondebo auro usque ad vivam cutem”;
eluo, Asin. 135 “nam in mari repperi, hic elavi bonis”;
interficio, e.g. Truc. 518 “salve qui me interfecisti paene vita et lumine” (hence interficere, sc. vitā, ‘to kill’);

prohibeo, e.g.

Asin. 515 “illo quem amo prohibeor”,
Pseud. 13 “id te (Ablative) Juppiter prohibessit!”,
Ter. Phorm. 425 “aut quidem cum uxore hac ipsum prohibebo domo”;

abstineo, e.g.

Rud. 1108 “abstine maledictis”,
Aul. 601 “qui ea curabit abstinebit censione bubula”,
Rud. 424 “potin ut me abstineas manum?”;

caveo¹, e.g. Bacch. 147 “cave malo”;
excido, Ter. Andr. 423 “erus, quantum audio, uxore excidit”;
consuesco, Ter. Adelph. 666 “qui illa consuevit prior” (v.l. illam).

On rēfert meā, see above, I. 4

1 Sometimes with ab and Ablative, e.g.

Men. 151 “abs te caveo”,
Pers. 317 “cave sis a cornu”.

The Accusative is also found, not merely of Neuter Pronoun, e.g. Men. 265 “ego istuc cavebo”, but of Nouns, e.g. Asin. 43 “cave sis malam rem”. In the legal sense ‘to take surety’ the Verb takes cum with Ablative, e.g. Pseud. 909 “malus cum malo stulte cavi”.

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

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