spect to the
sense it adds intensity. In respect to the construction it is not in
apposition, but in the same predicament with verbs like _must_ and
_should_, as in _I must go_, &c.; i.e., it is a verb followed by an
infinitive. This we know from its power in those languages where the
infinitive has a characteristic sign; as, in German,

Die Augen _thaten_ ihm winken.--GOETHE.

Besides this, _make_ is similarly used in Old English,--_But men make draw
the branch thereof, and beren him to be graffed at Babyloyne._--Sir J.
Mandeville.

s. 416. _The figure zeugma._--_They wear a garment like that of the
Scythians, but a language peculiar to themselves._--The verb, naturally
applying to _garment_ only, is here used to govern _language_. This is
called in Greek, _zeugma_ (junction).

s. 417. _My paternal home was made desolate, and he himself was
sacrificed._--The sense of this is plain; _he_ means _my father_. Yet no
such substantive as _father_ has gone before. It is supplied, however, from
the word _paternal_. The sense indicated by _paternal_ gives us a subject
to which he can refer. In other words, the word _he_ is understood,
according to what is indicated, rather than according to what is expressed.
This figure in Greek is called _pros to semainomenon_ (_according to the
thing indicated_).

s. 418.--_Apposition,_--_Caesar, the Roman emperor, invades
Britain._---Here the words _Roman emperor_ explain, or define, the word
_Caesar_; and the sentence, filled up, might stand, _Caesar, that is, the
Roman emperor_, &c. Again, the words _Roman emperor_ might be wholly
ejected; or, if not ejected, they might be thrown into a parenthesis. The
practical bearing of this fact is exhibited by changing the form of the
sentence, and inserting the conjunction _and_. In this case, instead of one
person, two are spoken of, and the verb _invades_ must be changed from the
singular to the plural.

Now the words _Roman emperor_ are said to be in apposition to _Caesar_.
They constitute, not an additional idea, but an explanation of the original
one. They are, as it were, _laid alongside_ (_appositi_) of the word
_Caesar_. Cases of doubtful number, wherein two substantives precede a
verb, and wherein it is uncertain whether the verb should be singular or
plural, are decided by determining whether the substantives be in
apposition or the contrary. No matter how many nouns there may be, as long
as it can be shown that they are in appos