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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...thus, esse percgre, to be abroad; ire peregrh, tc go abroad; redlre percgre, to return from abroad Obs 4. Interrogative adverbs of time and place doubled, or compounded with cunque, answer to the English adjection soever; as, ubiubi, or ubicunque, wheresoever; quoquo, quueunque, whithersoever, &c. Tha same holds also in interrogative words; as, quolquot, or quotcunque, how many soever; quantusquantus, or quantuscunque, how great soever; ututt or utcunque, however or howsoever, &c PREPOSITION. A Preposition is an indeclinable word, which shows the re lation of one thing to another. There are twenty-eight prepositions in Latin, which govern the accusative; that is, have an accusative after them. These four govern sometimes the accusative, and sometimes the ablative. In, In, into. Sub, Under. Super, Above. Subter, Beneath. Obs. 1. Prepositions are so called, because they are generally placed before the word with which they are joined. Some, however, are put after; as, cum, when joined with me, te, se, and sometimes with quo, qui, and quibus: thus, mecum, tecum, &c. Tenus is always placed after; as, meiito tenus, up to the chin. So likewise are versus and usque; and ward, in English; as, toward, eastward, &c. Obs. 2. Prepositions, both in English and Latin, are often compounded with other parts of speech, particularly with verbs; as, subire, to undergo. In English, they are frequently put after verbs; as, to go in, to go out, to look to, &c. Prepositions are also sometimes compounded together; as, Ex adherens cum locum. Cic. Ex adversum Mhenas. C. Nep. In ante diem quartum Kalendd.mim Dccembris distulit, i. e. usque in eum diem. Cic. Supplicatio indicta est ex ante diem quintumidus Octob. i. e. ab eo die, Lir. Ex ante...
