But moneō with the genitive is found in late writers only.Ĭatilīna admonēbat alium egestātis, alium cupiditātis suae. So admoneō, commoneō, commonefaciō, commonefīō. Verbs of reminding take with the Accusative of the person a genitive of the thing except in the case of a neuter pronoun, which is put in the accusative (cf. § 351, Note, below).ĭē illīs ( lacrimīs) recordor. 12) it is never used with a personal object, but may be followed by dē with the ablative of the person or thing (cf. Note- Recordor takes the genitive once (Pison. Recall that unanimous agreement of the theatre. Recordor ( recollect, recall) regularly takes the accusative.
Let him remember both the former discomfiture of the Roman people and the ancient valor of the Helvetians.ĭ. Reminīscerētur et veteris incommodī populī Rōmānī et prīstinae virtūtis Helvētiōrum. 10.782)Īs he dies he calls to mind his beloved Argos. It takes the accusative in the literal sense of call to mind, recollect the genitive in the more figurative sense of be mindful of.ĭulcīs moriēns reminīscitur Argōs. That same Achillas whom I mentioned aboveĬ. Note 2- Meminī in the sense of mention takes the genitive.Įundem Achillam cûius suprā meminimus (B. These uses come in each instance from the natural meaning of the verbs (as defined above). Note 1- With both meminī and oblīvīscor the personal and reflexive pronouns are regularly in the genitive neuter pronouns and adjectives used substantively are regularly in the accusative abstract nouns are often in the genitive. Turn your mind from slaughter and conflagrations. To disregard my own interests, to be mindful of the matters at issue Oblīvīscī temporum meōrum, meminisse āctiōnum (Fam. Nor shall I feel regret at the thought of Elissa, so long as I remember myself. Nec mē meminisse pigēbit Elissae, dum memor ipse meī. I will make you remember this place and this day and me as long as you live. (of his own interests)įaciam ut hûius locī dieique meique semper memineris. So oblīvīscor in the opposite sense-to disregard, or dismiss from the mind-and the adjective oblītus ( careless or regardless). Meminī takes the genitive when it means to be mindful or regardful of a person or thing, to think of somebody or something (often with special interest or warmth of feeling).
not merely disregard them, but banish them from your mind, as if you had never known them).ī. They remember many things that they have heard from others. Siron remembers all the doctrines of Epicurus.
Postumius, whose statue you say you remember (to have seen) on the Isthmus Postumium, cûius statuam in Isthmō meminisse tē dīcis (Att. Oh! that you could remember your grandfather! (but he died before you were born) So oblīvīscor in the opposite sense-to forget literally, to lose all memory of a thing (very rarely, of a person). Hence the accusative is used of persons whom one remembers as acquaintances, or of things which one has experienced. Meminī takes the accusative when it has the literal sense of retaining in the mind what one has seen, heard, or learned. Verbs of remembering and forgetting take either the accusative or the genitive of the object.Ī.
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