_Q._ Why is the lion of a party like one of the grand sources of
prejudice mentioned by Lord Bacon?
_A._ Because he is the _Idol_ of the _den_.
Mereor, to deserve, with these adverbs, bene, well, satis, enough, male,
ill, melius, better, pejus, worse, optime, very well, pessime, very ill,
is joined to an ablative case with the preposition de, as
De libitinario medicus bene meretur:
The doctor deserves well of the undertaker.
Notwithstanding it might at first sight appear, that the doctor, in
_furnishing funerals_, invades the undertaker's province.
Some verbs of receiving, of being distant, and of taking away, are
sometimes joined to a dative case, as
Augustus eripuit mihi nitorem:
Augustus has taken the shine out of me.
_Last Dying Speech of M. Antony._