When they can afford it.
An accusative case with a genitive is put after these verbs impersonal--
p[oe]nitet, it repents, tædet, it wearies, miseret, miserescit, it
pities, pudet, it shames, piget, it grieves, as--
"Nihil me p[oe]nitet hujus nasi"-- Trist: Shand:
"My nose has been the making of me."
A verb impersonal of the passive voice may be elegantly taken for each
person of both numbers; that is to say, by virtue of a case added to it.
Thus statur is used for sto, stas, stat, stamus, statis, stant. Statur a
me; it is stood by me, that is, I stand; statur ab illis: it is stood by
them, or they stand.
King George the Fourth's statue at King's Cross is a _standing joke_.
[Illustration
{King's Cross / WINKLES's /
_Steel and Copper Plate Manufactory_}]