| Nominative Subject |
The nominative
case was most commonly used by the Romans to designate the
subject of the finite verb in a sentence.
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Ille mi par esse deo uidetur,
ille, si fas est, superare diuos,
qui sedens aduersus identidem te
spectat et audit - Catullus LI.1-4 |
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Tamen longe maiora et firmiora de eo
iudicia in morte ac post mortem extiterunt. - Suetonius Vita
Gaii 5 |
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Urbem Romam a principio reges habuere;
libertatem et consulatum L. Brutus instituit. - Tacitus, Annales I.1 |
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| Predicate Nominative |
The nominative
case is used to designate both the subject and object of
the verb sum and other linking verbs.
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Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres
- Caesar, B.G. I.1 |
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"si esset providentia, nulla essent mala." Aulis
Gellius, Noctes Atticae VII.1 |
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... et non est tamen haec pars ulla valentis,
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Lucretius De Rerum Natura 103 |
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