The Syntax of the Nominal Forms of the Verb in Livy Book XXX
This study of the infinitives, gerundives, gerunds, supines, participles contained in Livy, Book 30, aims to point out how the author has made use of these constructions in this part of his history. In order to illustrate more clearly Livy's employment of these nominal forms of the verb, numerous examples have been quoted in the discussion of each individual construction which exhibit the use of the form in all periods of Latin literature, and, consequently, show Livy's adherence to or his divergence from the Classical usage. The treatment of the verbals is based upon the subject matter relative to these forms contained in Stols-Sehmalz, Lateinische Grammatik, 5th ed., revised by M. Leumann and J. B. Hofmann, Munich, 1928. No consideration, however, has been given to the following topics: the use of the perfect infinitive in place of the present, the anticipation of the subject accusative of the infinitive by de, the omission of the subject pronoun of the accusative and infinitive, the use of the infinitive as an imperative and the use of the gerundive in the periphrastic conjugation and other less Important functions of the nominal forms not occurring in Livy, Book 30. This work has the purpose also of comparing the findings of the uses of the nominal forms of the verb in Book 30 with those contained in the dissertations on four other Books of Livy (1, 2, 3, and 8).
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