¹ For instance, there is a widespread belief, encouraged by Kennedy's Latin Primer, § 208, that the usual Latin for ‘I ask him for money’ is not ‘Pecuniam ab eo peto’ but ‘Pecuniam eum rogo.’ Kühner, especially in the new edition, is good on the case constructions of many verbs ; e.g. on celo Dr. Stegmann tells us that Non te celaui sermonem T. Ampi (Fam. 2, 16, 3) is the only instance of its kind in Cicero, and that there is only one like it in Livy. In the first edition we read that the construction with de is ‘also’ found, in the second that it is ‘usual,’ e.g. Cic. Deiot. 18, de insidiis celare te noluit. The point is not very important; it is clear that the earlier use of the double accusative, even when ‘the Thing’ is represented by a Noun, did survive in the ‘classical’ period ; but it is worth mentioning, partly to show the greater accuracy of the new edition of Kühner, partly because in Lewis and Short we find ‘Rare, aliquem de aliqua re’ and their mistake is copied in some of the school dictionaries.

² In Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie und Paedagogik, 1885, 1887, 1890, 1894.