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... Scaevini. qui pridie insidiarum multo sermone cum Antonio Natale,...

multo sermone: an ablative phrase that doesn't fit clearly into any category; here is Furneaux's description from the introduction to his student commentary: "In xv 54, 1 multo sermone, and xvi 31, 1 longo fletu et silentio, the ablatives have the form of ablative of ' descrip tion,' but are co-ordinated with a past participle and accompanied with adverbs of time, showing that they are meant to indicate action, as though equivalent to past participles, i. e. = ablative absolute. This makes the strange ablative of description dux diversis artibus, xiv 23, 3, more intelligible."