Young reader! were you ever, on the above anniversary, sent to the
cobbler's for pigeons' milk, and dismissed with _strap-oil_ for your
_pains_? Were your domestic and alimentive affections ever sported with
by the false intelligence that a letter from home and a large cake were
waiting for you below! Or worse, did some waggish, but inconsiderate
friend ever send you a fool's-cap and a hamper of stones?
Reader, of a more advanced age, were you ever?-- but we cannot go on--
Oh! Matilda-- we might have been your _slave_-- but it was cruel of you
to _sell_ us in such a manner.
Uterque, both, nullus, none, alter, the other, neuter, neither of the
two, alius, another, ambo, both, and the superlative degree, are joined
to verbs of that kind only in the ablative case, as
Fratris, an asini, trucidationis accusas me? Utroque,
sed sceleris unius:
Do you accuse me of killing my brother or my donkey?
Of both; but of one crime.
Satago, to be busy about a thing, misereor and miseresco, to pity,
require a genitive case, as
Qui ducit uxorem rerum satagit:
He who marries a wife has his hands full of business.
We hear frequently of lovers being _distracted_. Husbands are much more
so.
O! tergi miserere mei non digna ferentis:
Oh! have pity on my back, suffering things undeserved.
Reminiscor, to remember, obliviscor, to forget, memini, to remember,
recorder, to call to mind, admit a genitive or accusative case, as
Reminiscere nonarum Novembrium:
Remember the fifth of November.
No wonder that so many _squibs_ are let off on that day; considering the
political feeling connected with it.
Hoc te spectantem me meminisse precor:
When this you see remember me.
How particularly anxious all young men and women who are lovers, and all
waiters and chambermaids, whether they are lovers or no, besides
coachmen and porters of all kinds, seem to be _remembered_. A coachman
in one respect especially resembles a lover; he always wishes to be
remembered by his _fare_.
Potior, to gain, is joined either to a genitive or to an ablative case,
as
Xantippe, marito subacto, femoralium potita fuit.
Xantippe, her husband being overcome, gained the breeches.
Terentius Thrace potitus est:
Terence got a Tartar.
At least he said he did, when he took the prisoner who would n't let him
come.