New Latin Grammar, page 149 by Charles E. Bennett
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application. Thus:--
1. With adjectives signifying desire, knowledge, familiarity, memory, participation, power, fullness, and their opposites; as,--
studiÅsus discendÄ«, _desirous of learning_;
perītus bellī, _skilled in war_;
Ä«nsuÄ“tus labÅris, _unused to toil_;
immemor mandÄtÄ« tuÄ«, _unmindful of your commission_;
plÄ“na perÄ«culÅrum est vÄ«ta, life is full of dangers.
a. Some participles used adjectively also take the Genitive; as,--
diligÄ“ns vÄ“ritÄtis, _fond of truth_;
amÄns patriae, _devoted to one's country_.
2. Sometimes with proprius and commūnis; as,--
virÄ« propria est fortitÅ«dÅ, bravery is characteristic of a man.
memoria est commūnis omnium artium, memory is common to all professions.
a. proprius and commūnis are also construed with the Dative.
3. With similis the Genitive is the commoner construction in Cicero, when the reference is to living objects; as,--
fīlius patris simillimus est, _the son is exactly like his father_;
meī similis, _like me_; vestrī similis, like you.
When the reference is to things, both Genitive and Dative occur; as,--
mors somnŠ(or somnī) similis est, death is like sleep.
4. In the poets and later prose writers the use of the Genitive with Adjectives is extended far beyond earlier limits; as, atrÅx animÄ«, _fierce of temper_; incertus cÅnsilÄ«, undecided in purpose.
GENITIVE WITH VERBS.
205. The Genitive is used with the following classes of Verbs:--
Memini, _ReminÄ&l