Chapter 413 Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar Dickinson College Christopher Francese

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Accompaniment is denoted by the Ablative, regularly with cum :— cum coniugibus ac līberīs (Att. 8.2.3) , with wives and children. cum funditōribus sagittāriīs que flūmen trānsgressī ; ( B. G. 2.19 ), having crossed the river with the archers and slingers. quae supplicātiō sī cum cēterīs cōnferātur (Cat. 3.15) , if this thanksgiving be compared with others. quae [lēx] esse cum tēlō vetat (Mil. 11) , the law which forbids [one] to go armed (be with a weapon). sī sēcum suōs ēdūxerit (Cat. 1.30) , if he leads out with him his associates. [For sēcum , see § 144 . b. N.1.]

The ablative is used without cum in some military phrases, and here and there by early writers:— subsequēbātur omnibus cōpiīs (B. G. 2.19) , he followed close with all his forces. [But also cum omnibus cōpiīs , id . 1.26.] hōc praesidiō profectus est (Verr. 2.1.86) , with this force he set out. Misceō and iungō , with some of their compounds, and cōnfundō take either (1) the Ablative of Accompaniment with or without cum , or (2) sometimes the Dative (mostly poetical or late):— mixta dolōre voluptās (B. Al. 56) , pleasure mingled with pain. cûius animum cum suō misceat (Lael. 81) , whose soul he may mingle with his own. flētumque cruōrī miscuit (Ov. M. 4.140) , and mingled tears with blood. Caesar eās cohortīs cum exercitū suō coniūnxit (B. C. 1.18) , Cæsar united those cohorts with his own army. āēr coniūnctus terrīs (Lucr. 5.562) , air united with earth. hūmānō capitī cervīcem equīnam iungere (Hor. A. P. 1) , to join to a human head a horse's neck.

Words of Contention and the like require cum :— armīs cum hoste certāre (Off. 3.87) , to fight with the enemy in arms. libenter haec cum Q. Catulō disputārem (Manil. 66) , I should gladly discuss these matters with Quintus Catulus. But words of contention may take the Dative in poetry (see § 368 . a ).

Ablative of Degree of Difference

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