The measure of quantity is put after adjectives, in the accusative, the
ablative, and the genitive case, as
Anguis centum pedes longus:
A snake a hundred feet long.
Arbor gummifera, alta mille et quingentis passibus.
A gum-tree a mile and a half high.
Aranea, lata pedum denum:
A spider ten feet broad.
An accusative case is sometimes put after adjectives and participles,
where the preposition secundum, appears to be understood, as
Os humerosque asello similis:
Like to a cod-fish as to his head and shoulders.
Some men _are_ exceedingly like a cod-fish, as to their head and
shoulders, and they often endeavour to increase this natural resemblance
as much as possible, by wearing _gills_.