This chapter examines the form and classification of the ab urbe condita construction, suggesting improvements.
The statements made in this chapter are based upon an examination of some two hundred examples of that combination of substantive and participle known as the ab urbe condita construction. In my introduction I showed why I considered the classification inexact. However, in discussing the examples which have been so classified in the past, it will be convenient to use the term until a better one can be found.
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