Sal. Jug. 6.

[ovidia nemausa]

Hello,
This is a sentence from Sal. Jug. 6.
I would appreciate a comment on the grammatical (possible) categories/functions of "corrumpendum".
Thanks in advance.

Qui ubi primum adolevit, pollens viribus, decora facie, sed multo maxime ingenio validus, non se luxu neque inertiae corrumpendum dedit, sed...

 

[Pacifica]

It's a gerundive, masc. sg. acc. in agreement with se.

Does that help?

 

[ovidia nemausa]

Thanks for your quick reply.
So "se" applies to dedit ("se dedit") as well as to corrumpendum?

 

[Pacifica]

Kind of, but more exactly, se is the direct object of dedit (se dedit = he gave himself) and corrumpendum is a predicative complement in agreement with the direct object (se dedit corrumpendum = he gave himself to be corrupted/spoiled).

 

[Inak]

Is inertiae a Dat. (indirect object of dedit)? Then why is luxu an Abl.?

 

[Pacifica]

They are both dative.

-u can of course be an ablative ending, but it's also a variant dative one.