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[6] carum: here an almost colorless word, somewhat as the Homeric φίλον often is. It modifies nescio quid, the object of iocari, which takes this less marked sort of a cognate accusative; cf. Cic. Fam. 9.14.4haec enim iocatus sum” ; Hor. S. 1.5.62in faciem permulta iocatus.” The infinitive-phrase is then the subject of libet.


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