This is the question I was working on from Caesar:A Legamus Transitional Reader.
Caesar, qui in Provincia erat, ad exercitum maturandum sibi existimavit.
The key says: Casesar who was in the Province, thought that he ought to hasten to the army. It also says that this is a passive periphrastic in the indirect statement.
Passive periphrastic is new to me. I looked in Excelibility in Latin Grammar and it says that the gerundive is used to express obligation or necessity. When combined with a form of sum, it forms a construction known as the passive periphrastic. And sibi is in the dative of agent. And it can be translated actively. This all seems to agree with the answer key except that there is not a form of sum.
1)So can the gerundive of purpose form a construction known as passive periphrastic without a form of sum?
2)Would you agree with the explanation in the key?
3)Should the Excelibility text have mentioned that the passive periphrastic can occur with just a gerundive and no form of sum?
4) Is the ending um because it matches the subject he which is in the accusative because it is the subject of the indirect statement?
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