[*] 435. The following Prepositions sometimes come after their nouns: ad , citrā , circum , contrā , dē , ē ( ex ), inter , iūxtā , penes , propter , ultrā; so regularly tenus and versus, and occasionally others:—
- [ūsus] quem penes arbitrium est et iūs et norma loquendī; (Hor. A. P. 72), custom, under whose control is the choice, right, and rule of speech.
- “cûius ā mē corpus est cremātum, quod contrā decuit ab illō meum ” (Cat. M. 84) , whose body I burned [on the funeral pile], while on the contrary (contrary to which) mine should have been burned by him.