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I really don't like the new male voice prononciation, it's wrong and misleads.
In this case:
"Liv-e-a" instead of "Livia"
"e-unt" instead of ""eunt"
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From what I can find, conjugations of eo are intransitive, so they shouldn't be able to take an object. Since the motion is occurring toward "domus", why isn't it in the dative case?
Accusative is used for motion toward.
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/33822673?from_email=comment&comment_id=34260032
Domum means to the house/home. It needs no preposition, just as, in English, you can say I'm going home : there is no need to say "I'm going to home" (although that isn't "wrong").
This abbreviated form (lacking the usual preposition) is found in several languages (perhaps because of the frequency of expressing "homeward") e.g. English I'm going home, Russian Я иду домой, Croatian Idem kući.