![]() ![]() ![]() Lucrece, in this lamentable plight, hastily dispatcheth messengers, one to Rome for her father, another to the camp for Collatine. The same night he treacherously stealeth into her chamber, violently ravished her, and early in the morning speedeth away. At that time Sextus Tarquinius being inflamed with Lucrece' beauty, yet smothering his passions for the present, departed with the rest back to the camp from whence he shortly after privily withdrew himself, and was, according to his estate, royally entertained and lodged by Lucrece at Collatium. Whereupon the noblemen yielded Collatinus the victory, and his wife the fame. In that pleasant humour they posted to Rome and intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus finds his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or in several disports. During which siege the principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son, in their discourses after supper every one commended the virtues of his own wife: among whom Collatinus extolled the incomparable chastity of his wife Lucretia. THE RAPE OF /Poetry/RapeOfLucrece.htmlĪrgument: Lucius Tarquinius, for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus, after he had caused his own father-in-law Servius Tullius to be cruelly murdered, and, contrary to the Roman laws and customs, not requiring or staying for the people's suffrages, had possessed himself of the kingdom, went, accompanied with his sons and other noblemen of Rome, to besiege Ardea. The motion event of both appropinquare and propinquare incorporates the stative adjective propinquus, which is, as claimed above, the true assigner of the dative case.Matt, do you think that embedded in the reference to Lepington/Lucrece there's still another, to Shakespeare's work in which Lucrece remains virtuous and Tarquin is banished for ever?Ĭf. the well-formedness of domui ignis propinquat (Tac. the ill-formedness of * equitare portis), whereas the unprefixed variant of the latter is compatible with the dative (cf. Furthermore, the difference between adequitare and appropinquare can be elucidated by the fact that the unprefixed variant of the former is incompatible with a dative (cf. As pointed out above, the latter verb incorporates an adjective that already assigns dative. ![]() 22.42) but not to appropinquare urbi (Liv. In my view, this second alternative can be claimed to apply to examples like ubi adequitavit portis (Liv. For a recent work and useful references therein, see also this paper. NB III: a second alternative would be to explore the well-known connection between prefixed verbs and datives. This construction is very rarely found in prose, where It clamor ad caelum is expected. The problem with this alternative is that this kind of directional dative is typically reduced to poetry. NB II: alternatively, if you don't find the explanation above convincing, you could try to explore the connection between the dative of appropinquare and the so-called "directional dative": e.g., It clamor caelo (Virg. NB I: hopefully, my answer above can also be regarded as a sort of up-date of what I consider an interesting intuition found in this link. In contrast, the Prepositional Phrase formed by ad plus an accusative noun is related to dynamic motion + path ( ad-) event associated with the verb appropinquare rather than to the inner stative adjective propinquus incorporated in this verb. So the dative nominal associated to the verb appropinquare, which is derived from the adjective propinquus, is used to express the final static position attained by the subject: i.e., at the end of the motion event encoded in appropinquare, the nominative Figure subject is propinquus 'near to' the dative Ground object. Crucially, note that the adjective propinquus, which expresses a state, selects a dative (e.g., in propinquis urbi montibus (Nep. ![]() In my view, there is a subtle difference in meaning. ![]()
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