Syntax. THE
ABLATIVE.
213. The Latin Ablative unites in itself three cases which were originally distinct both in form and in meaning; viz.The Ablative or from-case. The Instrumental or with-case. The Locative or where-case. The uses of the Latin Ablative Genuine Ablative uses, Instrumental uses. GENUINE
Ablative
ABLATIVE
accordingly uses, and
fall into Locative
USES.
of Separation.
214. The Ablative of Separation is construed with, sometimes without, a preposition.
sometimes
I. The following words regularly take the Ablative without a preposition: a) The Verbs offreeing: libero, solvo, levo ; b) The Verbs of dejJriving: privo, spolio, exuo, fraud6, niida; c) The Verbs of lacking: egeo, ~reQ..1{aco ; d) The corresponding Adjectives, liber, inAnis, vacuus, niidus, and some others of similar meaning.
Thus:ciiris lfberatus, freed from cares; Caesar hostea armis exuit, Caesar stripped the enemy
of
tlzeir arms ;
caret sensii commiini, he lacks common sense; auxilio eget, Ize needs help ; bonorum vita vacua est metii, the life of the good is free from fear. NOTE I.-Yet Adjectives and libero may take the preposition a.b,-regularly so with the Ablative of persons; as,-
urbem NOTE
2. -
ft.
tyra.nno liberarunt, they freed the city from the tyran/.
Indigeo usually takes the Genitive.
See ยง 212,
I,
a.