W. M. Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus

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The Accusative is found with the Participle indutus, e.g.

• Epid. 223 “quid erat induta? an regillam induculam an mendiculam?”,
• 225 “utin impluvium induta fuerit?”,
• Men. 511 “non ego te indutum foras exire vidi pallam?”

Either indutus is Middle, not Passive, or indutus takes Accusative on the analogy of gestare. But Cist. 641, “utrum hac me (hacine, Brix) feriam an ab laeva latus?”, Men. 858 “hunc senem osse fini dedolabo assulatim viscera”, are doubtful instances of the ‘Accusative of Limitation.’ They rather show Apposition, like Cas. 337 “quis mihi subveniet tergo aut capiti aut cruribus?”, for the Greek Accusative is alien to Plautus. Ennius in his ‘Annals’ ventured on this Accusative in v. 311 V. “perculsi pectora Poeni”, and found imitators in subsequent Dactylic poets (e.g. Lucr. 1, 12 “perculsae corda tua vi”). It is probably a Graecism, although the Accusative in another line of the Annals (v. 400 V.) “succincti corda machaeris”, might be classed with the Syntax of indutus. (On the gradual extension of this use of the Accusative in Latin, see Landgraf in the Archiv lat. Lexikographie, 10, 209 sqq.)