Here is a passage from Seneca's De brevitate vitae 13.7 that is giving me a bit of trouble: "Ille (Pompey)…cum in conspectum populi Romani multum sanginis funderet mox plus ipsum fundere coacturus." I think it is generally understood to mean that the Roman people was soon to be forced to shed more of its own blood, but I took coacturus in the nominative to refer to Pompey. Is it the subject of the infinitive fundere? Why not the accusative? I feel that I have seen this befor and that I should know this point of syntax. Can someone explain?
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