Sunday, April 23, 2023
Repetition of Antecedent Within Relative Clause
Andrew R. Dyck, ed., Cicero, Catilinarians (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 74 (on 1.4):
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senatus consultum . . . quo ex senatus consulto: the antecedent is repeated within the relative clause, a feature of the fussy Latinity of official reports that becomes less common in C.'s mature style; cf. Parzinger (1910) 83-6; Landgraf on Sex. Rosc. 8; K-S II 283-84; H-S 563-64; G-L §615; many examples are cited by Ellendt on De orat. 1.174.I just noticed another example at Plautus, Epidicus 41:
est causa qua causa simul mecum ire veritust.George E. Duckworth ad loc.:
causa qua causa — This repetition of the noun with the relative pronoun is frequent in comedy; cf. Merc. 1015 f.: immo dicamus senibus legem censeo ... qua se lege teneant contentique sint; Capt. 277 f., Mil. Gl. 140 ff. (but cf. Bach, De attractione, p. 5 n.), Rud. 997, Ter. Adelph. 854, Heaut. 20 f., Hec. 10 f., Phorm. 32 f. Cf. Leo, Analecta Plaut., II, p. 23 n.; Deecke, De usu pronominis, pp. 68 ff.See also Harm Pinkster, The Oxford Latin Syntax, Vol. II: The Complex Sentence and Discourse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 528-532 (§ 18.18: "The presence of the same noun (phrase) in the relative and superordinate clause").
