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Indeclinables.

Nequam, lit. ‘nohow,’ is an Adjective in the colloquial Latin of Plautus' time, e.g. Like other Adjectives, it may act as a Noun, e.g. Poen. 159 “A. vin tu illi nequam (= malum) dare nunc? B. cupio. A. em, me dato”. Frugi bonae Dative (II. 27) was shortened to frugi 1, and associated with frugalis, as may be seen from these lines: Nihili (II. 32) too became an Adjective, e.g.

1 Ennius coined the word frux for homo frugi in Ann. 314 V. “dictum factumque facit frux.”

Syntax of Plautus. W. M. Lindsay. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. Oxford. J. Parker and Co. 1907.

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