Chapter 353Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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Other constructions for the Charge or Penalty are—
The Ablative of Price: regularly of a
definite amount
of fine, and often of indefinite penalties (cf. §
416
):—
Frusinātēs
tertiā parte
agrī damnātī
;
(
Liv. 10.1
),
the people of Frusino condemned
[to forfeit]
a third part of their land.
The Ablative with
dē
, or the Accusative with
inter
, in idiomatie expressions:—
dē aleā
,
for gambling;dē ambitū
,
for bribery.dē pecūniīs repetundīs
,
of extortion
(cf. §
352
.
a
).
inter sīcāriōs(Rosc. Am. 90)
,
as an assassin
(among the assassins).
dē vī et mâiestātis damnātī
;
(
Phil. 1.21
),
convicted of assault and treason.
The accusative with
ad
and
in
occurs in later writers to express the
penalty:
as,—
ad mortem(Tac. Ann. 16.21)
,
to death;ad
(
in
)
metalla
,
to the mines.