Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DICTION AND STYLE m. Clauses introduced by ut, often preceded by ita and similar words, are used to express a restriction or proviso: ita magnos . . . esse voluit ut tamen pari iure essent, Aug. 56. 2; sed ut . . . expergisceretur, Aug. 78. 1; non tamen ut . . . auderet, Aug. 89. 1; sed ut . . . redierint, Jul. 69. 9. Participles, Infinitives, Gerunds And Gerundives a. No writer, probably, uses a larger number of participles than Suetonius, who employs them in a variety of constructions, often for the sake of greater brevity, but hardly with the admirable perspicuity of Livy. Eight, ten or more participles occur in a single period: eight in a sentence of five lines in Jul. 62; ten in a somewhat longer sentence in Aug. 16. 1, Siculum belium . . . effecit; fourteen in a single long period in Aug. 27. 3 f., Nam et Pinarium . . . insidiis perisse. (1) The future active participle is often used to express purpose or design, as in Greek, as well as time and other relations: successuri sibi, Jul. 21; quam primum transfretaturi, Jul. 34.1; vindicaturus si quid . . . constitutum esset, Jul. 30.1; Tiberium . . . dimissurus et Beneventum usque prosecuturus, Aug. 97. 3. (2) The perfect participle is commonly used in the present sense after Livy's time: nando . . . evasit. . . elata laeva . . . trahens, Jul. 64; subsecutus, Aug. 8.1. (3) The present is sometimes used because of the lack of a perfect active participle: Ac subinde . . . admonens, Jul. 65. (4) The impersonal use of the participle in the ablative absolute occurs, often with the force of an adverb: augurato, Aug. 7. 2; consulto, Jul. 56. 4; sortito, Aug. 30. 1. (5) The participle is also used in the ablative absolute with the subject omitted, but readily supplied: abso...