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Partitive genitive (aliquid boni, nihil…)

The genitive of the whole names what a part is taken from: aliquid boni "something good", horum ullus "any of these".

After neuter words of quantity (aliquid, nihil, quid, satis, parum, plus, tantum, tantundem): boni aliquid "something (of) good", tantundem vitae "the same amount of life".

After pronouns, numerals and superlatives (ullus, nemo, quisque, uterque, alter, unus) with a genitive plural: ab horum ullo "by any of these", reliquorum siquid "if any of the rest".

Translate with "of", or, when the genitive is a neuter adjective, as a plain adjective: aliquid boni "something good", nihil novi "nothing new".

With numerals and some pronouns, e, ex or de + ablative may replace it: unus ex multis "one of many".

Examples

  • ab horum ullo 2.1by any of them
  • quo boni aliquid addiscas 2.7so that you may learn something good
  • reliquorum siquid malum existeret 2.11if any of the other things were evil
  • tantundem vitae prorsus amittit uterque 2.14each loses exactly the same amount of life

In the text 133

  • I.8 quodque hominem viderim, qui peritiam suam et in theorematibus tradendis solertiam, bonorum suorum minimum existimare se, palam faceret.
  • I.17 tum quod adversus neminem eorum temere aliquid deliquerim, etiamsi ita affectus fuerim, ut, si occasio incidisset, ejusmodi aliquid admisissem.
  • II.1 nec laedi posse me ab horum ullo compertum habeo; (neque enim inhonesta re aliqua me quisquam involverit) sed nec succensere congeneri possum, eumve odisse.
  • II.2 tu ergo sic tecum: senex es: partem tui principem servire ulterius ne siveris; sed nec motibus a communione humana alienis raptari, nec quicquam, quod fato destinatum tibi fuerit, vel jam ascitum aversari, vel futurum pavere.tui is the genitive of tu, "of you", not a form of tuus: partem tui principem "the ruling part of you". princeps "chief, ruling" is used here as an adjective.
  • II.7 Ne te distrahant, quae extrinsecus obveniunt tibi; sed otium tibi praestes, quo boni aliquid addiscas, et huc illuc ferri desinas.aliquid boni, literally 'something of good', means 'something good': neuter words like aliquid, nihil, quid take the genitive of an adjective.
  • II.11 reliquorum siquid malum existeret, et de hoc utique pariter prospexissent, quo in ipso situm foret, in istud quoque ne incideret.siquid = si quid 'if anything' (quid means 'anything' after si). reliquorum 'of the remaining things' is a partitive genitive with it: 'if any of the other things'. malum is predicate: 'were an evil'.
  • II.12 cujusmodi sint omnia quae sub sensum cadunt; horumque ea maxime, quae vel voluptate alliciunt, vel dolore percellunt, vel cum fastu celebrantur;"and of these especially those which …": horum is a partitive genitive with ea, and ea is a second subject of sint. The three quae-clauses with vel … vel … vel name the three kinds of things meant.
  • II.14 alterius vero, quod is qui quam diutissime vixerit, et is qui quam celerrime mortuus fuerit, tantundem vitae prorsus amittit uterque.tantundem vitae "just as much (of) life": vitae is a partitive genitive. uterque "each of the two" gathers up the two is qui subjects and is singular, so the verb is singular, amittit; in this quod-clause Gataker keeps the indicative.
  • II.16 abscessionem enim facit a natura, in cujus parte aliqua reliquorum omnium cujusque natura continetur, qui re aliqua obveniente offenditur.cujus refers back to natura, universal Nature. The subject of continetur is the second natura: "the nature of each (cujusque) of all the rest (reliquorum omnium)", with the genitives placed first. The nature of every other thing is contained in some part of Nature.
  • II.17 si autem elementis ipsis nihil grave contingit, quod in alterum unumquodque eorum jugiter transmutatur, cur corporis universi mutationem ac dissolutionem metuat aut suspectam quis habeat?
  • III.2 tam vetulae item vetulive maturitatem quandam ac decorem, quam et quicquid in pueris venustatis animum allicientis deprehenditur, castis oculis spectare poterit.quicquid … venustatis "whatever (of) charm": the genitive of the whole after quicquid. allicientis "attracting" agrees with venustatis, and animum is its object: "whatever charm that draws the mind is found in the young". pueri here are boys or children generally.
  • III.3 Alexander, Pompeius, C. Caesar, cum tot urbes funditus evertissent, tot hominum myriades in praelio cecidissent, ipsi quoque tandem vita excesserunt.
  • III.4 Quod superest vitae reliquum, ne conteras in cogitationibus de rebus alienis, nisi siquid ad communem utilitatem spectaverit;
  • III.6 horum enim quisquam si vel minimum adjungere visum fuerit, praevalebit confestim, et abripiet te.horum … quisquam "any one of these", with a partitive genitive, is the subject of the whole sentence: of visum fuerit in the si clause, and of praevalebit and abripiet. The neuter visum shows that Gataker is thinking of any thing on the list: fame, office, riches, pleasure.
  • III.7 hoc autem unum per vitam totam cavet religiose, ne mens sibi quicquam eorum subterfugiat, quae animantis rationalis et civilis propria sunt munera.subterfugere "to slip away from, evade" takes a direct object: quicquam eorum "any of those things", with a partitive genitive. sibi is a dative of reference, "his": "that his mind does not shirk any of …".
  • III.8 In hominis castigati atque expurgati animo, nihil suppurati, nihil impuri, nihil subdoli offendas.nihil with the genitive of a neuter adjective or participle means "nothing of …", where English says "nothing festering, nothing impure". suppurati, from suppuro "fester underneath", pictures a sore hidden under healed skin; subdoli "underhand" keeps the same idea of something concealed.
  • III.11 nihil enim perinde magnanimitatem ingenerat, atque expedite vereque discutere posse unumquodque eorum quae in vita contingunt;
  • IV.1 et quicquid eorum loco adversi se ingerit, id pro materia, in qua exerceat se, habet:quicquid adversi is "whatever of the adverse", a partitive genitive: "whatever adverse thing". eorum loco "in their place": in place of the preferred things the mind was aiming at. se ingerit "thrusts itself in". id "that" then sums up the whole quicquid clause as the object of habet.
  • IV.2 Nihil operis est frustra temereve exequendum, neque aliter quam ut artis regulis quam exactissime respondeat.
  • IV.3 habeas autem penes te brevia quaedam et principalia documenta, quae statim ubi succurrerint, omnem animi molestiam eluere tibi possint, remittantque te nihil aegre ferentem eorum, ad quae reverteris.
  • IV.3 istic autem agentium quota pars, et hi quales sunt, qui te celebraturi sint?
  • IV.6 illud interim omnino memineris, brevi futurum; ut vestrum uterque defungatur: tum paulo post ne nomina quidem utriusque superfutura.
  • IV.18 Quantum is otii lucratur sibi, qui non animadvertit, quid proximus quis dixerit, egerit, cogitaverit;An exclamation: "how much leisure he gains for himself!" Quantum "how much" is the neuter of quantus used as a noun, the object of lucratur, and otii is a partitive genitive with it: Latin says "how much of leisure". lucratur is from the deponent lucror "gain, make a profit". is … qui "he … who" is "the man who".
  • IV.19 Qui de fama posthuma solicitus est, non cogitat fore, ut unusquisque eorum qui ipsius meminerint, mox fato sit concessurus;
  • IV.20 ecquid enim horum vel laude fit bonum, vel corrumpitur vituperio?ecquid "anything?" asks "is there anything that …?", and here the answer "no" is plain. horum "of these" is a partitive genitive: any of the things just named, law, truth, kindness, modesty.
  • IV.24 pleraque enim eorum quae dicere et facere consuevimus, cum necessaria non sint, si amputaverimus, a negotiis multo vacabit magis, minusque perturbata futura est nobis vita nostra.
  • IV.26 boni aliquid tibi obvenit? ab initio tibi, quicquid contingit, ab universo destinatum et fato certo assignatum est.boni aliquid "something good": as in Book II, neuter pronouns such as aliquid take the genitive of an adjective, literally "something of good".
  • IV.31 quod autem vitae reliquum est, ita exigito, ut qui Diis tua omnia ex toto animo commiseris; nullique homini vel servum vel tyrannum te exhibeas.
  • IV.42 Nihil mali est rebus mutationem subeuntibus, sicut nec eis quae mutatione interveniente consistunt.nihil takes a partitive genitive: nihil mali "nothing of bad" = "nothing bad". In the second half the same words are understood: sicut nec eis "just as (there is nothing bad) for those either". The datives rebus and eis say for whom: "for things …", "for those …".
  • IV.47 Quemadmodum si Deorum quis praediceret tibi, aut cras, aut summum perendie, moriturum te, haud in magno poneres, nisi animi esses abjectissimi, perendie potius quam crastino mori.
  • IV.49 nunquid casus ullus prohibeat te, justum esse, magnanimum, temperantem, prudentem, temeritate, errore immunem, modestum, liberum, aut aliud quid eorum, quae ubi affuerint, natura humana sua obtinet universa?
  • V.3 eadem enim est harum utriusque via.harum utriusque "of each of these (two)": harum is a partitive genitive with uterque "each of two", and the two are your own nature and the common nature. eadem "the same" is the predicate: the road of each is the same, so in following one you follow the other.
  • V.10 ubinam enim gentium est, qui sententiam, falsus quandoque, non mutaverit?
  • V.12 si quid eorum quae revera bona sunt mente quispiam conceperit, puta, prudentiam, temperantiam, justitiam, fortitudinem, ista, inquam, si animo praeconceperit, non sustinebit adjectum huic audire quicquam, quod non rei bonae probe congruat.
  • V.13 Forma consto et materia. harum neutra in nihilum interibit, quemadmodum nec ex nihilo processit.
  • V.15 Nihil horum hominis esse dicendum est, quod non ad hominem qua homo est, pertinet.
  • V.15 tum siquid istorum ad hominem pertineret, hominis non esset ea despectui habere, eisque sese opponere. nec laude dignus haberetur, qui istis minus indigentem se praestiterit.
  • V.15 imo ne bonus quidem vir esset, qui sibi horum alicui interdixerit, siquidem ea vere bona existerent.
  • V.15 atqui contra, quo quis horum hisque similium plura sibi detraxerit, aut ab aliis detracta aequanimiter sustinuerit, eo melior merito censetur.
  • V.21 Eorum quae mundus complectitur, quod praestantissimum est colito.Eorum "of those things" is a partitive genitive that depends on quod praestantissimum est "what is most excellent": "of all the things the world contains, the most excellent". It is put first to set the scene. quod has no antecedent, "(that) which", and its whole clause is the object of colito; praestantissimum is the superlative of praestans "outstanding".
  • V.22 quin et etiamsi civitati nonnihil inde nocumenti accederet, ne sic quidem succensendum esset civitatem laedenti, sed ostendendum in quo delinquat.
  • V.24 Memineris et naturae universae, cujus particulam exiguam admodum obtines; et aevi universi, cujus spatium breve et momentaneum tibi assignatum est; et fati, cujus quantilla es particula?natura universa "the whole of nature" stands for what Marcus's Greek calls the whole of substance, all the stuff of the world. Of it you hold particulam exiguam admodum "a very small particle": cujus "of which" is a partitive genitive with particulam, and admodum "very" strengthens exiguam.
  • V.29 sin id minus permiserint, quibuscum hic degis, exeas licet e vita; ita tamen, ne tanquam mali quid passus.ita … ne "in such a way that … not", "on condition that … not", with exeas understood: "(go out) not as one who has suffered something bad". After ne, quid is indefinite, "anything", and mali is a partitive genitive: mali quid "any harm". passus is the perfect participle of the deponent patior "suffer", agreeing with "you"; tanquam "as if" marks it as a manner of leaving to avoid. Leave, if you must, calmly, without bitterness, not as a man who has been wronged.
  • V.31 nunquid hactenus adversus horum aliquem, quod minus deceat, quicquam vel facto, vel dicto etiam admiseris.
  • V.36 nihil enim mali subest.nihil mali "nothing of evil" is a partitive genitive, English "nothing bad". subest "is beneath, lies under": beneath the loss there lies no real evil, because for a Stoic only vice is evil.
  • VI.14 Eorum quae vulgus hominum admiratur, pleraque ad generalissima rerum capita referuntur, quae vel forma mera vel natura continentur; qualia sunt lapides, ligna, ficus, vites, oleae:The sentence opens with a relative clause naming a group: Eorum quae vulgus hominum admiratur "of the things which the mass of men admire". Eorum is a partitive genitive depending on pleraque "most": "most of the things …". vulgus "the crowd" is a neuter singular noun, so its verb admiratur is singular; admiror is deponent, active in meaning.
  • VI.15 Quaedam fieri properant, quaedam fuisse: et illius etiam quod fit, aliquid jam abscessit.illius … aliquid "something of that" is a partitive genitive; illius is also the antecedent of quod fit "which is coming to be". Even what is still in the making has partly gone already.
  • VI.15 in hoc igitur flumine, in quo consistere non datur, quorsum quis horum sic praeterlabentium quicquam in pretio habeat?
  • VI.15 perinde ac si avicularum praetervolantium aliquam diligere quis inciperet, cum ea e conspectu statim abscesserit.
  • VI.16 aut ab affectibus sigillarium instar impelli; aut gregatim convenire; aut nutriri: hoc enim perinde est atque alimenti quod est superfluum excernere.perinde … atque "just the same as". hoc "this" is being fed: taking in food is no nobler than getting rid of what is left over. The object of excernere "to excrete" is the clause alimenti quod est superfluum "what of the food is surplus"; its antecedent (id) is left out, and alimenti is a partitive genitive with quod.
  • VI.16 omnino necesse erit macerari te, ubi horum tibi aliquid defuerit; et de Diis etiam saepenumero conqueri.
  • VI.17 Sursum, deorsum, in orbem feruntur elementa. virtutis vero motus nulla harum via fertur.harum "of these" is feminine because viarum "ways" is understood from via: "by none of these ways", the up, the down and the circle just named. via is an ablative of the way by which, as in hac via "by this road".
  • VI.25 Cogita tecum, quot intra nostrum unumquemque, tam in corpore, quam et in anima, uno eodemque temporis momento simul fiant.nostrum is the partitive genitive of nos: unumquemque nostrum "each one of us". (The other genitive, nostri, is used for "of us" as the object of a feeling.)
  • VI.30 eodem loci ad vesperam usque, diaetae tenuis beneficio, manere potis; nec excernere, nisi tempore consueto, necesse habens.An adverb of place with a partitive genitive: eodem loci "at the same (point) of place", i.e. "in the same spot", like eo loci "at that point".
  • VI.41 Siquid eorum, quae extra arbitrium tuum sunt, bonum malumve esse praesumpseris,
  • VI.41 necesse erit, ut ubi istiusmodi vel in malum incideris, vel bono excideris, Deos incuses, oderis homines, qui horum alterutrius tibi vel autores fuerint, vel etiam fore suspicaris.
  • VI.47 at ecquid inde illis mali?No verb: supply est. ecquid … mali "anything of harm", i.e. "any harm at all?": mali is a partitive genitive with the neuter pronoun, and ecquid expects the answer "no". illis "to them" is a dative of the person affected; inde "from that", from their being dead.
  • VI.49 Sicut enim staturae, sic et temporis, quantum assignatum est tibi, tanto contentus sis oportet.
  • VI.56 Quam multi eorum, quibuscum in mundum intraveram, ex eodem jam excesserunt?
  • VII.1 nihil est novi.novi is a partitive genitive with nihil: literally "there is nothing of new", i.e. "nothing new". Latin says nihil novi, aliquid boni, putting the adjective in the genitive after a word of quantity.
  • VII.6 quam multi etiam eorum, qui istos celebraverant, jam olim penitus aboliti sunt?eorum is a partitive genitive with multi: "many of those who …". istos "those men" are the famous ones of the first question. celebraverant is pluperfect, "had made famous, had praised", an act earlier than their own vanishing.
  • VII.16 animula vero, quae timet, quae dolet, quae super his omnino aliquid opinatur, nihil horum patietur, nisi si eam ipse in judicium istiusmodi demiseris.patietur is the future of the deponent patior "suffer". nihil horum "nothing of these" is a partitive genitive: none of the things the body suffers will touch the soul.
  • VII.22 hoc fiet, si una succurrat tibi, tum esse tibi cognatos, tum inscios invitosque peccare: adhaec, paulo post utrosque vestrum morti concessuros: prae omnibus denique, nihil eos te laesisse.
  • VII.23 horum autem quodlibet ad breve temporis spatium subsistit.
  • VII.46 neque enim hoc est, quod, vir vere qui sit, tantopere expetere debeat, ut temporis tantundem vivat; neque vitae oportet avidum esse;
  • VII.58 denique in utroque horum memineris, medium quiddam esse illud, circa quod actio versatur.
  • VII.64 in plerisque vero horum Epicuri illud tibi adsit, nec intolerandum, nec aeternum esse, si terminorum memor fueris, nec opinionem adjeceris.
  • VII.64 quoties ergo horum aliquid aegre fers, dic tibi, dolori succumbere te.
  • VIII.1 proinde si vere perspexisti, in quo res ipsa sita sit, missa existimatione, in hoc duntaxat incumbe, ut vitae quod superest, quantulumcunque id fuerit, pro naturae tuae ductu ac dictamine transigas.quod superest "what remains" is the object of transigas, with its antecedent (id) left out; vitae "of life" is a partitive genitive. vitam transigere means "to pass, spend one's life".
  • VIII.6 usitata sunt omnia, ut metuendum non sit, nequid novi emergat.nequid is ne quid written as one word. After a verb of fearing, ne introduces what is feared, so it is translated "that": "(no need to fear) that something new may come up". quid novi "something of new" means "something new", a partitive genitive.
  • VIII.13 Assidue, in omni, quantum potes, viso menti oblato, considera, quaenam ejus natura, ad mores quid faciat, quid in se habeat veritatis.
  • VIII.20 ecquid autem pilae, vel sursum missae boni, vel descendenti cadentique mali?ecquid "is there anything?" asks a question that expects the answer "no". With est understood it takes partitive genitives: ecquid … boni "anything of good", and with ecquid understood again, mali "(anything) of harm".
  • VIII.20 ecquid et bullae vel consistenti boni, vel subsidenti mali?
  • VIII.28 omne enim judicium, et impetus, et appetitus, et aversatio intus est; quo mali nihil ascendit.quo is the relative adverb "to which place" and stands for "and to there": no evil climbs up into that inner place, as into a citadel. mali nihil "nothing of evil" is a partitive genitive, the Latin way of saying "no evil at all"; mali is the neuter adjective used as a noun.
  • VIII.31 nec illud minus, quod tumulis inscribi solet, Ultimus hic generis sui.The epitaph, with est left out: "this man is the last of his line". generis sui is a partitive genitive with the superlative ultimus "last", as in optimus omnium "best of all". hic could also be read as the adverb hīc "here", as in hic situs est "here lies": "here (lies) the last of his line".
  • VIII.35 Sicut reliquas facultates rationalium unusquisque fere ab universi natura accepit; ita hanc nos ab eadem facultatem accepimus:rationalium "of rational (beings)" is an adjective used as a noun, a partitive genitive with unusquisque "each one": "each one of the rational beings".
  • VIII.36 sed ad praesentium unumquodque interroga te, quidnam hac in re est, quod subiri aut sustineri nequeat? confiteri namque erubesces.ad here is "at, on meeting": as each present thing comes. praesentium "of present (things)" is an adjective used as a noun, a partitive genitive with unumquodque "each one".
  • VIII.52 qui autem in horum alterutro deficit, nec ad quid ipse natus sit, dicere potest:deficere in + ablative "to fall short in, fail in". alterutro "one or the other, either" of horum "these", the two things just named: who one is, and what the world is.
  • VIII.56 etiamsi enim quam maxime alter alterius caussa mutuo nati simus, mentium tamen nostrarum cuilibet peculiaris sua constat potestas.cuilibet "to each one" has the partitive genitive mentium nostrarum "of our minds". constat "stands firm" with a dative means "belongs to": "to each of our minds belongs its own power". peculiaris and sua both say "its own", so the point is made twice.
  • VIII.58 atqui, si sensum nullum prorsus habueris, nec mali quicquam sensurus es; sin sensum aliusmodi, animal aliusmodi futurus es, nec vivere desines.
  • IX.1 cum enim universi natura animalia rationalia sui invicem gratia condiderit, ut sibi invicem pro cujusque dignitate prosint, nec ulla ratione sibi invicem obsint, qui naturae placitum hoc violat, impie prorsus agit adversus numinum omnium antiquissimum.A superlative with a partitive genitive: "the most ancient of all divinities". antiquissimum is neuter because numen "divinity" is neuter, and numen is understood with it from numinum. The divinity meant is the nature of the universe itself. To wrong a fellow man is to break her decree, and so it is an offence against the oldest of the gods: that is why injustice is impiety.
  • IX.1 adhaec, qui dolorem timet, eorum aliquid timebit, quae in mundo necessario futura sunt. hoc est autem impium.eorum aliquid "something of those things" is a partitive genitive, and eorum is the antecedent of quae: "some one of the things which …". futura sunt, the future participle with sum, means "are going to be, are bound to happen", and necessario "of necessity" stresses it. Whoever fears pain fears part of what nature has fixed must happen, and so quarrels with nature: hoc est autem impium.
  • IX.9 facilius enim quis terreni quippiam terrenae rei nulli adjunctum repererit, quam hominem ab homine omni prorsus sejunctum.
  • IX.10 Fructum fert et homo, et Deus, et mundus. et in propria tempestate fert horum unumquodque,horum unumquodque "each one of these", with horum a partitive genitive. unumquodque is neuter although the three nouns are masculine: Latin often says "each thing" in the neuter when it sums up a list.
  • IX.17 Lapidi projecto nihil est mali, quod deorsum feratur; quod sursum, nihil boni.Lapidi projecto "for a stone thrown" is a dative of reference, saying for whom a thing is bad or not. nihil … mali "nothing of evil" is a partitive genitive, English "nothing bad"; so nihil boni "nothing good" at the end. In the Greek the stone is thrown upwards and then falls.
  • IX.21 Actionis terminatio, intentionis aut opinationis cessatio, mors eidem est quaedam. veruntamen nihil in se mali habet.nihil … mali "nothing of evil" is a partitive genitive, as in §17. in se "in itself": such an ending is a death, but not an evil.
  • IX.37 Jam satis est vitae calamitosae, et obmurmurationis, et nugarum.satis "enough" is used as a noun and takes a partitive genitive: "there is enough of a wretched life". jam is "by now, already": he has had his fill. Three genitives follow: vitae calamitosae, obmurmurationis "grumbling", nugarum "trifles".
  • IX.37 quid perturbaris? ecquid in his novi? quid te tandem percellit?ecquid … novi "anything new?": a partitive genitive with ecquid, and est understood. Like num, ecquid expects the answer no. tandem in the next question is impatient: "what, after all …?"
  • IX.40 si possunt, cur non hoc potius ab eis prece poscis, nequid horum cupias, nequid de horum ullo anxius sis, quam ut horum quicquam vel eveniat vel non eveniat?
  • IX.41 sed nec medicis ita praebebam me, ut efferrent sese, quasi magni quid agerent. sed vita mihi etiam tunc quam optime agebatur.quasi "as if" brings in an imagined comparison and so takes the subjunctive: "as though they were doing". quid is the indefinite "something", and magni is a partitive genitive with it, "something of great", that is "something great", as in aliquid boni "something good".
  • IX.42 est enim hic impudentium illorum unus, quos in mundo esse necesse est.
  • IX.42 nihil enim horum, quibus succenses, quenquam fecisse deprehendes, quod mentem tuam deteriorem reddat.
  • IX.42 ecquid autem mali aut insueti fit, si ineruditus, quae ineruditi sunt, fecerit?ecquid "anything at all?" asks a question that expects the answer "no". The genitives mali aut insueti are partitive: "anything of bad or strange", that is, "anything bad or strange".
  • X.7 aut est enim elementorum, ex quibus concretum fuerat, dissipatio, aut conversio, quicquid est solidi in terram, quicquid aerii est in aerem;quicquid est solidi is literally "whatever there is of solid", a partitive genitive: "whatever is solid". The two quicquid clauses say what the conversio is a turning of, and in terram, in aerem into what: the solid part goes back to earth, the airy part, the breath, to air. aerii is from aerius "of the air", the same word as aereus in the next sentence.
  • X.10 Aranea muscam ubi ceperit, se effert tanquam magni quid egerit; alius ubi lepusculum; alius, ubi reticulo apuam ceperit; alius, ubi apros; alius ubi ursos; alius ubi Sarmatas,tanquam "as if" takes the subjunctive egerit "it had done". After it quid is indefinite, "something", and magni is a partitive genitive: literally "something of great", that is, "something great".
  • X.15 Exiguum est quod superest vitae tuae.quod superest "what remains" is the subject of exiguum est, and vitae tuae is a partitive genitive: "what is left of your life".
  • X.18 Rerum praesentium unamquamque advertendo, considera eam jam dissolutam, et in mutatione et quasi putrefactione quadam, aut dissipatione, constitutam, sive ut mori quodammodo nata sit.
  • X.25 idem est et qui ideo angitur, vel irascitur, vel metuit, quod secus, quam ipse velit, aut factum sit, aut fiat, aut futurum sit eorum quicquam, quae ab universi rectore sunt constituta,
  • X.31 et temet ubi respexeris, Caesarum aliquem.temet is te strengthened with -met, "yourself". Supply cogita again: "(think of) one of the Caesars", the emperors before Marcus, now as dead as anyone. Caesarum is a partitive genitive with aliquem.
  • X.31 tu vero spatii illius quantulum occupas?quantulum "how little" is the neuter of quantulus used as a noun, with the partitive genitive spatii illius "of that expanse": "how tiny a share of it do you fill?"
  • X.32 sed mentiatur, quisquis horum quicquam de te opinatus fuerit.
  • X.33 reliqua enim obstacula, vel sunt corporis, quod cadaveris instar habet, vel opinione, et rationis inclinatione semota, non infringunt, aut mali quicquam efficiunt. alioqui ea qui patitur, malus fieret.After non, aut carries the negative on: "nor do they cause any evil". mali quicquam "anything of evil" is a partitive genitive.
  • X.33 atqui in aliis quidem operibus omnibus ita se habet, ut quicquid alicui horum mali contigerit, deterius illud faciat, quod eo afficitur.quicquid … mali "whatever (of) evil" is a partitive genitive split across the clause; alicui horum "to any one of these (works)" is the dative with contingo "happen to". contigerit is subjunctive because it stands inside the result clause.
  • X.33 horum autem, quae infortunia dicimus, nihil legem laedit. quod autem legem non laedit, nec civitatem, nec civem laeserit.horum … nihil "none of these" is a partitive genitive. In quae infortunia dicimus "which we call misfortunes", the name stands in the same case as the thing named, here the accusative, after dicere "call".
  • X.36 non erat revera asper nostri cuiquam: sensi tamen, tacite illum damnasse nos.cuiquam nostri "to any of us": nostri is the genitive of nos. Classical Latin says nostrum for "of us" in this sense and keeps nostri for "of us" as an object ("mindful of us"); Gataker writes nostri. cuiquam is dative with asper: "harsh to anyone".
  • X.36 nam et hoc ex eis est, quae sunt secundum naturam.ex eis est "is (one) of those things": ex with the ablative marks the group something belongs to, as a partitive genitive would. secundum naturam "according to nature" is the Stoic watchword: a parting that nature brings about is no evil.
  • X.37 Solenne tibi sit, in cujusque (quoad ejus fieri potest) actione omni, apud te quaerere, Istud iste quo fine facit?A set phrase, "as far as can be done": literally "as far as of it can be done", with ejus a partitive genitive meaning the thing in question. The parentheses mark it as an aside.
  • XI.1 videtque simul, quod nihil novi visuri sint posteri nostri, sicut nec amplius quicquam viderunt antecessores nostri,
  • XI.9 sed ad utrumque horum teneas te, ut et in judicio actioneque constanti persistas, et in mansuetudine erga illos, qui vel impedire te conantur, vel alio modo quopiam molesti tibi sunt.
  • XI.13 quid enim tibi mali contigerit, modo quod naturae tuae conveniat, id ipse facias?
  • XI.15 hoc omnium maxime fugias.
  • XI.16 indifferenter autem se habebit, si divisim et integre earum unamquamque consideraverit; simulque recordatus fuerit, quod nihil horum cogere nos potest, ut hoc vel illud de ipso opinemur;
  • XI.17 Cogita tecum, unde prodierit unumquodque, et ex quibus consistat, et in quid mutet, et ubi mutaverit, quale futurum sit, et quod mutando mali nil patitur.The last item is not a question but a fact to keep in mind, so it has quod "that" with the indicative patitur, Gataker's usual substitute for an accusative and infinitive. mutando, the gerund in the ablative, is "in changing, by changing". mali nil "nothing of evil" is a partitive genitive: "nothing bad". Change is no harm to what changes, as 10.7 argued.
  • XI.18 atque omnino multa prius edocearis oportet, quam de facto alieno certi quicquam statuere possis.certi is a partitive genitive with quicquam: "anything (of) certain", i.e. "anything certain".
  • XI.18 monstraveris etiam scite, et generatim ostenderis, nec apes ita se gerere, nec eorum ullum, quae gregatim agere nata sunt, animantium.ullum "any" is a second subject of gerere, understood again. eorum … animantium "of those living creatures" is a partitive genitive whose noun is held back to the end, after the relative clause quae gregatim agere nata sunt "that are born to live in herds". The pronouns are neuter because animans is used here as a neuter noun.
  • XI.19 Mentis affectiones quatuor potissimum sunt jugiter cavendae, et ubi deprehensae fuerint, confestim inducendae, de singulis earum sic censendo:
  • XI.19 quartum esto, quicquid conscientia tibi dictaverit, fore per illud, ut pars tui divinior devicta succumbat viliori, corpori nempe mortali ejusque crassis voluptatibus.
  • XI.26 In scriptis Epicureis praecipitur, ut in mente ac memoria semper habeamus antiquorum aliquem eorum, qui virtutem coluerint.
  • XII.3 horum priora duo hactenus sunt tua, utpote quorum cura commissa est tibi. tertium tantummodo proprie tuum est.
  • XII.3 si a mente, inquam, tua haec sejunxeris, quae ex affectu vehementiore ei adhaerere solent, et temporis quicquid vel praeteritum vel futurum est;temporis quicquid "whatever of time" is a partitive genitive: "whatever time is either past or to come". Only the present is left, as in 12.1.
  • XII.3 poteris tandem, quod superest vitae tuae, ad mortem usque, tranquille, generose, genioque tuo propitius transigere.
  • XII.13 Quam ridiculus et peregrinus est, qui quicquam eorum quae in vita hac fiunt, miratur?
  • XII.21 Cogita tecum, brevi fore, ut nec ipse ullus usquam futurus sis, nec quicquam eorum quae vides, nec horum quisquam qui nunc vivunt.
  • XII.23 Operatio unaquaeque, quae tempore suo desinit, nihil inde mali patitur, quia desiit:nihil mali "nothing of evil" is a partitive genitive: "no harm". inde "from that" points to the ceasing, and quia desiit "because it has ceased" means "just by the fact of having ceased". tempore suo "at its own time" is an ablative of time: when its proper time comes.
  • XII.23 nec autori ejus, cessationis hujus ratione, mali quicquam contingit.
  • XII.23 pari ergo modo actionum omnium complexio, quae vita dicitur, si tempore suo desierit, nihil inde quicquam mali patitur, quia desiit.nihil … quicquam "nothing whatever" is an emphatic doubling: quicquam "anything" repeats and strengthens nihil. mali is again a partitive genitive, "of harm".
  • XII.24 tertium, si in sublime subvectus res humanas despiceres, ubi varietatem earum quanta esset perspexisses, simulque uno conspectu comprehenderes, quantum undiquaque aeriorum et aetheriorum sedes suas habeat, quod quotiescunque subvectus esses, eadem semper occurrerent.comprehenderes is the second verb of the si clause: "and (if) at the same time you took in at one view". quantum … aeriorum et aetheriorum "how great an amount of beings of the air and the upper sky" is a partitive genitive: how great a population has its home all around, in the air and in the bright air above the clouds (aether). habeat is present although the verbs around it are past, as though their numbers were a standing fact.
  • XII.27 fastus dein de fastus contemptu inflatus omnium est maxime intolerabilis.
  • XII.29 In hoc vitae salus sita est, ut unumquodque quid sit in universum discernas; quidque materiae, quid formae habeat.Two more indirect questions with partitive genitives: "what of matter, what of form it has". Matter and form are the two sides Marcus looks for in everything: what a thing is made of, and the cause that shapes it.
  • XII.30 et ista tamen mens universi continet, et facultas illa, cujus vi eodem loci feruntur.
  • XII.31 ecquid horum tibi desideratu dignum videtur?
  • XII.32 quantula item totius materiae? quantulum et animae universae? in quantula etiam telluris totius glebula repis?
  • XII.36 neutrum autem horum a te est."But neither of these comes from you": you were not the cause of your making, nor are you of your unmaking. neutrum "neither (of two)" takes the partitive genitive horum.