Non amo te Sabidi,nec possum dicere quare.Hoc tantum possum dicere:non amo te. In this poem,the final vowel of the word "Sabidi" is a long vowel "ii". Is that a vocative case's ending?And is the "Sadi

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Non amo te Sabidi,nec possum dicere quare.Hoc tantum possum dicere:non amo te. In this poem,the final vowel of the word "Sabidi" is a long vowel "ii". Is that a vocative case's ending?And is the "Sadibi" from "Sabidius"?If so,why is it not"Sabidie"but"Sabidi"?

Oct 6, 2021 9:08 AM

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It's an exception of the second declension. Proper names ending with -ius and the noun "filius" have the vocative in -i. (another famous example is "tu quoque Brute, fili mi")

October 6, 2021

Invitee

Sabidius is an originally Roman name that ends in -ius. Originally roman names like this one, form the vocative in an -i ending. Ex. Vergilius- voc. Vergili Sabidius - voc. Sabidi.

October 6, 2021

To add to the other answers, Sabidī is the vocative form of the name Sabidius, and the accent is retained in the "bi" syllable, in seeming contradiction with the penultimate rule.

February 19, 2022

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