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WESTMAN, R., Das Futurpartizip als Ausdrucksmittel bei Seneca. Centraltryckeriet, Helsinki / Helsingfors, 1961. 238p. Sewn. Front cover slightly creased and with tiny tear to fore edge. Series: Societas Scientorum Fennica, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum XXVII. 3. 'The varied range of meanings which the future participle developed when its stylistic possibilities were fully exploited by the writers of the Silver Age is well known, and the freedom with which Seneca used this part of speech had already been noticed, but Dr. Westman is the first to study Seneca's usage in detail and he has produced a lucid and scholarly work. (...) There are useful chapters dealing with the future infinitive, the use of the future participle with conjunctions, in conditional clauses and substantially; but the central and most important section of the book deals with the periphrastic conjugation and the appositional and attributive use of the participle. (...) The value of this study must lie in the detailed analysis of general categories of meaning and the interpretation which is provided for a large number of individual passages. (...) The acuteness and sensibility with which Westman distinguishes a shade of meaning should not be underestimated and he often enables to elicit a more precise significance that one could before. His presentation is lucid, and the reader is helped at every stage by a clear statement of the procedure and frequent recapitulation of the argument.' (L.D. REYNOLDS in The Classical Review (New Series), 1964, pp.111). € 22.50 (Antiquarian)