YesAggredior is used transitively. Regarding the other point, I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that a noun cannot appear in an ablative absolute clause because it is understood to the be object of the verb in the main clause?
YesAggredior is used transitively. Regarding the other point, I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that a noun cannot appear in an ablative absolute clause because it is understood to the be object of the verb in the main clause?
That's how I understand it.Ok, I see what you mean now. Aggredior is necessarily transitive; it can't mean "attack" absolutely, so there must be an object, which is the enemy. Yes? So my version hostibus vīsīs makes it seem like I want the ablative absolute to double as a direct object.