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a. The following prepositions are used with the Accusative: -

	ad, to.	circiter, about.	intrá, inside.
	adversus, against.	cis, citrá, this side.	iúxtá, near.
	adversum, towards.	contrá, against.	ob, on account of.
	ante, before.	ergá, towards.	penes, in the power of.
	apud, at, near.	extrá, outside.	per, through.
	circá, around.	ínfrá, below.	póne, behind.
	circum, around.	inter, among.	post, after.
	praeter, beyond.	secundum, next to.	ultrá, on the further side.
	prope, near.	suprá, above.	versus, towards.
	propter, on account of.	tráns, across.



b. The following prepositions are used with the Ablative: - [1][For palam etc., see § 432.]



	á, ab, abs, away from, by.	é, ex, out of.
	absque, without, but for.	prae, in comparison with.
	córam, in presence of.	pró, in front of, for.
	cum, with.	sine, without.
	dé, from.	tenus, up to, as far as.



c. The following may be used with either the Accusative or the Ablative, but with a difference in meaning: -



	in, into, in.	sub, under.
	subter, beneath.	super, above.



In and sub, when followed by the accusative, indicate motion to, when by the ablative, rest in, a place:



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• vénit in aedís, he came into the house; erat in aedibus, he was in the house.

  

• disciplína in Britanniá reperta atque inde in Galliam tránsláta esse exístimátur, the system is thought to have been discovered in Great Britain and thence brought over to Gaul.

  

• sub ílice cónséderat, he had seated himself under an ilex.

  

• sub légés mittere orbem, to subject the world to laws (to send the world under laws).