A preposition in composition sometimes governs the same case which it
also governed out of composition, as
Jupiter Olympo Vulcanum calce exegit:
Jupiter kicked Vulcan out of Olympus.
This was not only an ungentlemanly, but also an _ungodly_ act on
Jupiter's part. Reasoning à posteriori, one would think it must have
been very unpleasant to Vulcan.
Præteriit me in Quadrante insalutatum:
He cut me in the Quadrant.
Verbs compounded with a, ab, de, e, ex, in, sometimes repeat the same
prepositions with their case out of composition, and that elegantly, as
Abstinuerunt a vino:
They abstained from wine.
This properly is an allusion to the Tiber-totallers. It should be
remembered that tea was unknown in Rome, except as the accusative case
of a pronoun.
In, for, erga, towards, contra, against, ad, to, and supra, above,
requires an accusative case, as
Quietum
Accipit in pueros animum mentemque benignam:
He admits kind thoughts and inclinations towards the boys.
The master does-- when he gives them a half holiday or a blow out. Mr.
Squeers (vide Nicholas Nick: illustriss. Boz.) was in the habit of
_making much_ of the young gentlemen intrusted to his care.
Sub, when it relates to time, is commonly joined to an accusative case,
as
Sub idem tempus-- Isaaculus trans maria deportatus est:
About the same time-- Ikey was transported beyond the seas.
We say _beyond the seas_, lest it should be questioned whether Mr. I.
was _transported_ as a necessary or contingent consequence of cheating.
Super, for, ultra, beyond, is put with an accusative case, for de,
concerning, with an ablative case, as
Super et Garamantas et Indos
Proferet imperium:
He will extend the empire both beyond the Africans and the Indians.
A wide _rule_ expressed in poetical _measure_.
Quid de domesticis Peruviorum rebus censeas?
What may be your opinion concerning the domestic economy
of the Peruvians?
Tenus, as far as, is joined to an ablative case, both in the singular
and plural number, as
Cervice, auribusque tenus Marius in luto inveniebatur:
Marius was found up to his neck and ears in mud.
What a lark! or rather a mud lark. But tenus is joined to a genitive
only in the plural, and it always follows its case, as
Crurum tenus: up to the _legs_.
Which it is very necessary to be at Epsom and Ascot.