GENITIVE WITH VERBS

Verbs of accusing, condemning and acquitting take the genitive of the charge or penalty.

Verbs of remembering and forgetting take the genitive. Verbs of reminding take the genitive of the thing and the accusative of the person.

Sed tu, qui huius iudicii meministi, cur illius oblitus es in quo me interrogasti quid de Meti Modesti pietate sentirem? [I.5]

Verbs of feeling take the genitive of the object which excites the feeling [objective genitive].

The impersonals:

• miseret pity
• paenitet regret
• piget disgust
• pudet shame
• taedet tire, weary

take the genitive of the cause of the feeling and the accusative of the person affected by the feeling.

Interest and refert may also take the genitive of the person affected.

Verbs of want or plenty may take the genitive, but more commonly take the ablative.