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nominative case is all over the place in the Aeneid, for example. I'd conjecture that the elision of an explicit noun, given a conjugated verb, is a convenienc
by jjtheblunt 7y ago
nominative case is all over the place in the Aeneid, for example. I'd conjecture that the elision of an explicit noun, given a conjugated verb, is a convenience whose viability is contextual.
- schoen 7y agoIt's sometimes hard to gauge idiomaticity from poetry, though, because poets do so many unusual things for the sake of the meter.
- jjtheblunt 7y agoYour comment rings true; I really agree. Dactylic and iambic don't come for free.