1302. Verbs of separation take an ablative of the thing from which
separation takes place: as,
(_a._) #caruit forō posteā Pompēius, caruit senātū, caruit pūblicō#,
_Mil._ 18, _after that Pompey had to keep away from the market place,
from the senate, from highways and byways_. #adhūc Q. Ligārius omnī
culpā vacat#, _Lig._ 4, _thus far Ligarius proves devoid of any guilt_.
#egeō cōnsiliō#, _Att._ 15, 1, A, 5, _I need advice_ (1305). (_b._)
#Ītaliā prohibētur: nōn tū eum patriā prīvāre, quā caret, sed vītā vīs#,
_Lig._ 11, _he is kept out of Italy; you want to deprive him not of his
country, from which he is debarred, but of life_. #līberēmus cūrā
populum Rōmānum#, L. 39, 51, 9, Hannibal’s words when he took poison,
183 B.C., _let me relieve Rome of anxiety_.
1303. This ablative is used (_a._) with such verbs as mean _abstain_,
#abstineō#, #dēsistō#, #supersedeō#; _am devoid of_, #careō#, #vacō#;
_need_, #egeō#; and in addition to the accusative of the object, (_b._)
with verbs used transitively, such as mean _keep off_, #arceō#,
#exclūdō# and #interclūdō#, #prohibeō#; _drive away_, _remove_, #pellō#,
#moveō#, and their compounds; _free_, #expediō#, #līberō#, #levō#,
#solvō# and #exsolvō#; _deprive_, #orbō#, #prīvō#, #spoliō#, #nūdō#,
#fraudō#.
1304. A preposition, #ab# or #ex#, is often used with these verbs, and
regularly when the ablative denotes a person. But #careō# and #egeō#,
and #exsolvō# and #levō#, never have a preposition.
1305. With #egeō#, the genitive is sometimes used, and often with
#indigeō#: see 1293. Also in poetry, with verbs of abstaining and
separating: see 1294.
1306. The ablative of separation is sometimes used with such adjectives
as #aliēnus#, #expers#, #līber#, #nūdus#, #vacuus#, &c.: as, #negant id
esse aliēnum maiestāte deōrum#, _Div._ 2, 105, _they maintain that this
is not at variance with the greatness of the gods_. #vacuī cūrīs#,
_Fin._ 2, 46, _devoid of cares_. #arce et urbe orba sum#, E. _Tr._ 114,
_of tower and town bereft am I_. But sometimes the genitive: see 1263
and 1264; sometimes also prepositional constructions: for these, and
particularly for the different constructions of #aliēnus#, see the
dictionary.