[*] 433. Prepositions often retain their original meaning as Adverbs:—
- Ante and post in relations of time:—
-
Adversus
,
circiter
,
prope
:—
- “nēmōadversus ībat ” (Liv. 37.13.8) , no one went out in opposition.
- circiter pars quārta (Sall. Cat. 56), about the fourth part.
- prope exanimātus, nearly lifeless.
- Ā or ab, off, in expressions of distance, with the Ablative of Degree of
Difference (§ 414):—
- “ā mīlibus passuum circiter duōbus Rōmānōrum adventum exspectābant ” (B. G. 5.32) , at a distance of about two miles (about two miles off) they awaited the approach of the Romans.
- In general, prepositions ending in -ā:—