W. M. Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus, V. The Verb., para 7

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Table of Contents:

I. Colloquialisms. The Concords.

III. The Adjective.

VI. The Adverb.

VII. The Preposition.

VIII. The Conjunction.

IX. The Interjection.

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The omission of the Verb is common in Terence, who cleverly in this respect reproduces the unconventional utterance of every-day, e.g.

Phorm. 440 “A. siquid opus fuerit, heus domo me (sc. arcessito). B. intellego”,
Andr. 300 “A. verbum unum cave de nuptiis (sc. dicas), ne ad morbum hoc etiam (sc. accedat). B. teneo.”

It is not so marked a feature of Plautus' style, although it is by no means absent, e.g. Rud. 1086 “quid istuc tuā (sc. refert)?”

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

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