Chapter 435Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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The following Prepositions sometimes come after their nouns:
ad
,
citrā
,
circum
,
contrā
,
dē
,
ē
(
ex
),
inter
,
iūxtā
,
penes
,
propter
,
ultrā;
so regularly
tenus
and
versus
, and occasionally others:—
[ūsus]
quem penes
arbitrium est et iūs et norma loquendī
;
(
Hor. A. P. 72
),
custom
,
under whose control is the choice, right
,
and rule of speech.
cûius ā mē corpus est cremātum,
quod contrā
decuit ab illō meum
(Cat. M. 84)
,
whose body I burned
[on the funeral pile],
while on the contrary
(contrary to which)
mine should have been burned by him.