Note 16 — Chapter I · PROLOGUE

E.g. Cicero declared the superlative of pius to be un-Latin when used by Mark Antony, Phil. xiii. 43; but Sen. ad Polyb., vii. 4, has piissimis: cf. xv. 4, piissime. Itaque in Cic. is regularly at the beginning of a clause, in Sen. often after one or two words. Proinde, once associated with imperative or subjunctive, comes to be used more and more, without any idea of command or exhortation, as an ordinary inferential word meaning “therefore.” Among noticeable grammatical usages are the new Silver senses given to the fut. part. in -urus.