Verbs of asking, of teaching, of clothing, and of concealing, commonly govern two accusative cases, as
Ego docebo te, adolescentule, lectiones tuas:
I’ll teach you your lessons, young man.
This speech is usually the prelude to something which elicits that exemplification of the vocative case which has been given in the first part of the Grammar.
Some verbs of this kind have an accusative case even in the passive voice, as
Bis denos posceris versus de scoparum manubrio:
You are required to make twenty verses on a broomstick.
Why should not a broomstick form the subject of a poetical effusion, when the material of the broom itself is so often used in schools to stimulate inventive genius?
Nouns appellative are commonly added with a preposition to verbs which denote motion, as