W. M. Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus

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The competition of Accusative with Dative has been already mentioned (25) in connexion with ausculto, etc. To the Compound Verbs which take Accusative as well as Dative (e.g. Epid. 135 “nunc iam alia cura impendet pectori”), we may add

• inservio, Most. 190 “matronae, non meretricium est unum inservire amantem”, Most. 216 “si illum inservibis solum”;
“indulgeo,” e.g. Ter. Heaut. 988 “te indulgebant” (cf. Eun. 222), Lucilius 900 Ma, “tu qui iram indulges nimis”, Afranius 391 “qui nos tanto opere indulgent in pueritia.”
• Also the Simple Verbs servio, Turpilius 39 “modice atque parce eius serviat cupidines”;
• studeo, e.g. Mil. 1437 “minus has res studeant”, Truc. 337 “illum student iam”, Titinius 85 “Ferentinatis populus res Graecas studet”;
• medeor, e.g. Ter. Phorm. 822 “cupiditates, quas, quom res advorsae sient, paulo mederi possis” (cf. medicari with Accusative Most. 387 “ego istum lepide medicabo metum”; with Dative Amph. frag. viii. “advenienti morbo medicari iube”).

Anteeo (antideo) takes Accusative with an Ablative of Respect, e.g. Bacch. 1089 “solus ego omnes longe antideo stultitia et moribus indoctis”, but otherwise Dative, e.g. Pers. 778 “solus ego omnibus antideo facile”, Amph. 649 “virtus omnibus rebus anteit.” Parco has Accusative and Dative indiscriminately, e.g. Mil. 1220 “ne parce vocem, ut audiat” (cf. Most. 104, and the old formula, like Gk. εὐφήμει, used at sacrifices parcito linguam), Pers. 682 “tace, parce voci” (cf. Poen. 1145).