Chapter 433 Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar Dickinson College Christopher Francese

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Prepositions often retain their original meaning as Adverbs:—

Ante and post in relations of time:— quōs paulō ante dīximus (Brut. 32) , whom I mentioned a little while ago. post tribus diēbus , three days after (cf. § 424 . f ). Adversus , circiter , prope :— nēmō adversus ībat (Liv. 37.13.8) , no one went out in opposition. circiter pars quārta (Sall. Cat. 56 ), about the fourth part. prope exanimātus , nearly lifeless. Ā or ab , off , in expressions of distance , with the Ablative of Degree of Difference (§ 414 ):— ā mīlibus passuum circiter duōbus Rōmānōrum adventum exspectābant (B. G. 5.32) , at a distance of about two miles (about two miles off) they awaited the approach of the Romans. In general, prepositions ending in -ā:— Aeolus haec contrā (Aen. 1.76) , thus Æolus in reply. forte fuit iūxtā tumulus ( id . 3.22), there happened to be a mound close by.

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