How particularly anxious all young men and women who are lovers, and all waiters and chambermaids, whether they are lovers or no, besides coachmen and porters of all kinds, seem to be remembered. A coachman in one respect especially resembles a lover; he always wishes to be remembered by his fare.
Potior, to gain, is joined either to a genitive or to an ablative case, as
Xantippe, marito subacto, femoralium potita fuit.
Xantippe, her husband being overcome, gained the breeches.
Terentius Thrace potitus est:
Terence got a Tartar.
At least he said he did, when he took the prisoner who would n’t let him come.
The Dative Case after the Verb.
All verbs govern a dative case of that thing to or for which any thing is gotten or taken away, as
Diminuam tibi caput: