Expertlatin
- What is an example of ablative of description?
- What is an example of ablative of agent?
- What does ablative mean in Latin?
- What is an example of ablative of separation?
What is an example of ablative of description?
Ablative of description or of quality is an ablative modified by an adjective or genitive that expresses a quality that something has: vir summā virtūte "a gentleman of highest virtue".
What is an example of ablative of agent?
The voluntary agent after a passive verb is expressed by the ablative with ā or ab. He is praised by these, blamed by those. Whatever is done by your soul is done by yourself. He was brought to trial by his sons.
What does ablative mean in Latin?
The ablative after prepositions of place or time denotes location in place and time. This is to be distinguished from the accusative after the same preposition which indicates motion into, down under, toward, etc.
What is an example of ablative of separation?
Verbs meaning to remove, set free, be absent, deprive, and want, take the ablative (sometimes with ab or ex). He deprived himself of eyes. He (Ariovistus) bars the Romans from the whole of Gaul. He is debarred the use of fire and water.
