Monday, January 15, 2024

 

I Will

Vergil, Aeneid 10.855-856 (Mezentius speaking; tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
Now I live on, and leave not yet daylight and mankind;
but leave I will.

nunc vivo neque adhuc homines lucemque relinquo.
sed linquam.
relinquo...linquam is an example of compound-simplex verbal iteration, where the simplex verb has the meaning of the preceding compound verb, on which see e.g.:



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