Martini Cromeri ex vicesimo libro de origine & rebus gestis Polonorum nonnulli loci dubii

[Matthaeus]

Interea dum haec fiunt, venit ad regem Coributhus cum ceteris Bowmorum haereticorum ducibus. Qui Boemia sive pulsi, sive ultro excedentes, cum Lusatiam divexassent, Silesiam quoque, belli sede Gliviciae posita, longe lateque vastabant; oppida hostiliter diripiebant et incendebant, et in templa atque monasteria, sacerdotesque et monachos potissimum barbarico furore debacchabantur, Ziscae ducis sui immanitatem secuti...

Isn't this deponent verb intransitive? If so, why are the priests and monks in the accusative case?

 

[Pacifica]

The in before templa still applies to monasteria, sacerdotes and monachos.

 

[Matthaeus]

Yes, that preposition here takes four accusatives, but how does the verb fit in? So debacchari in aliquos/aliquas res??

 

[Pacifica]

Yes. It means basically to be violent against them.

 

[Matthaeus]

Ah bene, nunc me certiorem reddidisti.

 

[Matthaeus]

So it's intransitive yet takes four direct objects, nice ... maybe another one of those barbaric mediaevalisms.

 

[Pacifica]

Those aren't direct objects. They're objects of the preposition in.