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quanti aedes emisti, _at how high a price did you purchase the house?_

5. Any of the above varieties of the Genitive of Quality may be used
predicatively; as,--

tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem, _of so great difficulty was
it to found the Roman race_.

GENITIVE WITH ADJECTIVES.

204. The Genitive is used with many Adjectives _to limit the extent of
their application_. Thus:--

1. With adjectives signifying _desire_, _knowledge_, _familiarity_,
_memory_, _participation_, _power_, _fullness_, and their opposites; as,--

studiosus discendi, _desirous of learning_;

peritus belli, _skilled in war_;

insuetus laboris, _unused to toil_;

immemor mandati tui, _unmindful of your commission_;

plena periculorum est vita, _life is full of dangers_.

a. Some participles used adjectively also take the Genitive; as,--

diligens veritatis, _fond of truth_;

amans patriae, _devoted to one's country_.

2. Sometimes with proprius and communis; as,--

viri propria est fortitudo, _bravery is characteristic of a man_.

memoria est communis omnium artium, _memory is common to all
professions_.

a. proprius and communis are also construed with the Dative.

3. With similis the Genitive is the commoner construction in Cicero, when
the reference is to living objects; as,--

filius patris simillimus est, _the son is exactly like his father_;

mei similis, _like me_; vestri similis, _like you_.

When the reference is to things, both Genitive and Dative occur; as,--

mors somno (or somni) similis est, _death is like sleep_.

4. In the poets and later prose writers the use of the Genitive with
Adjectives is extended far beyond earlier limits; as, atrox animi, _fierce
of temper_; incertus consili, _undecided in purpose_.

GENITIVE WITH VERBS.

205. The Genitive is used with the following classes of Verbs:--

_Memini_, _Reminiscor_, _Obliviscor_.

206. 1. WHEN REFERRING TO PERSONS--

a. memini always takes the Genitive of personal or reflexive pronouns;
as,--

mei memineris, _remember me_!

nostri meminit, _he remembers us_.

With other words denoting persons memini takes the Accusative, rarely the
Genitive; as,--

Sullam memini, _I recall Sulla_;

vivorum memini, _I remember the living_.

b. obliviscor regularly takes the Genitive; as,--

Epicuri non licet oblivisci, _we mustn't forget Epicurus_.