Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 353

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[*] 353. Other constructions for the Charge or Penalty are—

The Ablative of Price: regularly of a definite amount of fine, and often of indefinite penalties (cf. § 416):—

Frusinātēstertiā parteagrī damnātī; (Liv. 10.1), the people of Frusino condemned [to forfeit] a third part of their land.

The Ablative with dē , or the Accusative with inter , in idiomatie expressions:—

dē aleā, for gambling; dē ambitū, for bribery.
dē pecūniīs repetundīs, of extortion (cf. § 352. a).
“inter sīcāriōs ” (Rosc. Am. 90) , as an assassin (among the assassins).

dē vī et mâiestātis damnātī; (Phil. 1.21), convicted of assault and treason.

[*] Note.--The accusative with ad and in occurs in later writers to express the penalty: as,— “ad mortem” (Tac. Ann. 16.21) , to death; ad ( in ) metalla, to the mines.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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