Collatinus biblissima plus#

As pointed out above, the latter verb incorporates an adjective that already assigns dative. 22.42) but not to appropinquare urbi (Liv.

In my view, this second alternative can be claimed to apply to examples like ubi adequitavit portis (Liv. For a recent work and useful references therein, see also this paper.

NB III: a second alternative would be to explore the well-known connection between prefixed verbs and datives. This construction is very rarely found in prose, where It clamor ad caelum is expected. The problem with this alternative is that this kind of directional dative is typically reduced to poetry. NB II: alternatively, if you don't find the explanation above convincing, you could try to explore the connection between the dative of appropinquare and the so-called 'directional dative': e.g., It clamor caelo (Virg. NB I: hopefully, my answer above can also be regarded as a sort of up-date of what I consider an interesting intuition found in this link.

Collatinus biblissima plus#

In contrast, the Prepositional Phrase formed by ad plus an accusative noun is related to dynamic motion + path ( ad-) event associated with the verb appropinquare rather than to the inner stative adjective propinquus incorporated in this verb. So the dative nominal associated to the verb appropinquare, which is derived from the adjective propinquus, is used to express the final static position attained by the subject: i.e., at the end of the motion event encoded in appropinquare, the nominative Figure subject is propinquus 'near to' the dative Ground object. Crucially, note that the adjective propinquus, which expresses a state, selects a dative (e.g., in propinquis urbi montibus (Nep. In my view, there is a subtle difference in meaning.