1307. (1.) Proper names of towns and of little islands are put in the
ablative with verbs of motion, to denote the place from which motion
proceeds: as,
#Dāmarātus fūgit Tarquiniōs Corinthō#, _TD._ 5, 109, _Damaratus ran away
from Corinth to Tarquinii_. #sīgnum Carthāgine captum#, _V._ 4, 82, _the
statue carried off from Carthage_. #Megaribus#, Pl. _Per._ 137, _from
Megara_. #Lēmnō#, Pl. _Tru._ 90, _from Lemnos_. #Rōmā accēperam
litterās#, _Att._ 5, 8, 2, _I had got a letter from Rome_. Rarely with a
substantive of motion (1301): as, #dē illīus Alexandrēā discessū#,
_Att._ 11, 18, 1, _about his departure from Alexandrea_. Also in dating
letters: as, #V kal. Sextīl., Rēgiō#, _Fam._ 7, 19, _Regium, 28 July_;
less often the locative: as, #Īdibus Iūniīs, Thessalonīcae#, _QFr._ 1,
3, 10, _Thessalonica, 13 June_. Like a town name: #Ācherunte#, poet. in
_TD._ 1, 37, _from Acheron_. With an attribute: #ipsā Samō#, _V._ 1, 51,
_from Samos itself_. #Teānō Sidicīnō#, _Att._ 8, 11, B, 2, _from
Sidicinian Teanum_.
1308. Singular town or island names sometimes have #ex# in old Latin:
thus, #Carystō#, Pl. _Ps._ 730, _from Carystus_, or, #ex Carystō#, _Ps._
737, indifferently. #ex Andrō#, T. _Andr._ 70, _from Andros_. In
classical Latin, town names rarely have #ab#: as, #ab Athēnīs
proficīscī#, Serv. in _Fam._ 4, 12, 2, _to start from Athens_; chiefly
of neighbourhood: as, #ab Gergoviā#, 7, 43, 5: 7, 59, 1, _from camp at
Gergovia_; or direction: as, #ā Salōnīs ad Ōricum#, Caes. _C._ 3, 8, 4,
_from Salonae to Oricum_; regularly with #longē#: as, #longē ā
Syrācūsīs#, _V._ 4, 107, _far from Syracuse_.
1309. The ablative of a town or country name is rarely attached
immediately to a substantive, to denote origin: as, #Periphanēs Rhodō
mercātor dīves#, Pl. _As._ 499, _Periphanes from Rhodes a chapman rich_.
#videō ibī̆ hospitem Zacynthō#, Pl. _Mer._ 940, _I see the friend there
from Zacynthus_. Rarely in Cicero: as, #Teānō Āpulō laudātōrēs#, _Clu._
197, _eulogists from Apulian Teanum_; in Caesar twice. In Livy with #ab#
only: as, #Turnus ab Arīciā#, L. 1, 50, 3, _Turnus from Aricia_. But the
Roman tribe one belongs to, is regularly in the ablative: as, #Q. Verrem
Rōmiliā, _sc._ tribū#, _V. a. pr._ 1, 23, _Verres of the tribe Romilia_.
1310. With a verb, country names regularly have a preposition, and
always in Cicero, Sallust, and Livy: as, #ē Ciliciā dēcēdēns#, _Br._ 1,
_going away from Cilicia_. The ablative alone is rare: as, #Aegyptō
adveniō domum#, Pl. _Most._ 440, _from Egypt I come home_. Chiefly in
Tacitus: as, #Aegyptō remeāns#, 2, 69, _coming back from Egypt_. In
Caesar, by attraction: #cōgēbantur Corcȳrā atque Acarnāniā pābulum
supportāre#, _C._ 3, 58, 4, _they were forced to fetch fodder from
Corcyra and even Acarnania_.
1311. (2.) The ablatives #domō# and #rūre#, and in poetry #humō#, are
used like proper names of towns: as,
(_a._) #domō excesserant#, 4, 14, 5, _they had gone away from home_.
Also metaphorically: as, #domō doctus#, Pl. _Mer._ 355, _by
home-experience taught_. (_b._) #rūre rediīt uxor mea#, Pl. _Mer._ 705,
_my wife’s come back from out of town_. (_c._) #humō#, in Vergil first:
as, #vix oculōs attollit humō#, O. 2, 448, _scarce from the ground her
eyes she lifts_.
[Erratum:
1309 ... #Turnus ab Arīciā#, L. 1, 50, 3,
50, 3.]