Verbs of accusing, condemning, advising, acquitting, and the like, require a genitive case which signifies the charge; as
Qui alterum accusat probri, eum ipsum se intueri oportet.
It is fit that he who accuses another of dishonesty should look into himself.
If this maxim were acted up to, what attorney could we ever get to frame an indictment?
Furti damnatus, “tres menses” adeptus est:
Being condemned of theft, he had “three months.”
We do not see much fun in that. We cannot help thinking, however, that “Three Months at Brixton,” would form a taking (at least a thief-taking) title for a novel.
Admoneto magistrum squalidarum vestium:
Put the master in mind of his seedy clothes.
That is if you want a good dressing.