Relative Clauses of Characteristic, Supines

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Chapter 38

• Relative Clauses of Characteristic, Supines

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Relative Clauses of Characteristic

• You have seen the relative clause in Latin used
  with an indicative verb as the governing verb.
• dedi tibi quod cupivisti
• I gave you what (the thing which) you wanted.

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Relative Clauses of Characteristic

• A subjunctive verb in a relative clause is used
  to mean the type of thing.
• dedi tibi quod cupiveris
• I gave you what (the type of thing which) you
  wanted.

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Relative Clauses of Characteristic

• solus est quem di diligant
• nullus est cui invideant
• sunt alii complures qui idem fecerint

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Relative Clauses of Characteristic

• This construction was also frequently used in
  order to express cause, purpose, result, and
  adversative clauses.
• odimus eos qui haec faciant causal
• miror te sic fabulari, quae tam callida sis.
  adversative
• homines rationem habent a natura datam quae et
  causas rerum et consecutiones videat purpose

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Supines

• A Supine is another type of abstract verbal noun
  formed from the 4th princ. part.
• It is a fourth declension masculine noun that
  appears in the accusative and ablative cases.
• In the accusative it expresses purpose with verbs
  of motion.
• In the ablative it is modified by neuter
  adjectives

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Supines

• legatos Caesarem mittunt rogatum auxilium
• mirabile dictu
• facile factu