Benjamin Storme, « Sicilia amissa: Nominal Phrase or Embedded Clause? », Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes, ID : 10670/1.c8447f...
In this paper, the author will show, using an example from Curtius, that strings like Sicilia amissa or Ab urbe condita are neither nominal phrases nor “Dominant Participle Constructions,” but embedded clauses.