you need money_.

a. These verbs more commonly take the Ablative (Sec. 214, 1); indigeo is the
only verb which has a preference for the Genitive.

2. Potior, though usually followed by the Ablative, sometimes takes the
Genitive, almost always so in Sallust; and regularly in the phrase potiri
rerum, _to get control of affairs_.

3. In poetry some verbs take the Genitive in imitation of the Greek; as,--

desine querellarum, _cease your complaints_;

operum soluti, _freed from their tasks_.

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THE ABLATIVE.

213. The Latin Ablative unites in itself three cases which were originally
distinct both in form and in meaning; viz.--

The Ablative or from-case.
The Instrumental or with-case.
The Locative or where-case.

The uses of the Latin Ablative accordingly fall into Genuine Ablative uses,
Instrumental uses, and Locative uses.

GENUINE ABLATIVE USES.

Ablative of Separation.

214. The Ablative of Separation is construed sometimes with, sometimes
without, a preposition.

1. The following words regularly take the Ablative without a preposition:--

a) The Verbs of _freeing_: libero, solvo, levo;

b) The Verbs of _depriving_: privo, spolio, exuo, fraudo, nudo;

c) The Verbs of _lacking_: egeo, careo, vaco;

d) The corresponding Adjectives, liber, inanis, vacuus, nudus,

and some others of similar meaning.

Thus:--

curis liberatus, _freed from cares_;

Caesar hostes armis exuit, _Caesar stripped the enemy of their arms_;

caret sensu communi, _he lacks common sense_;

auxilio eget, _he needs help_;

bonorum vita vacua est metu, _the life of the good is free from fear_.

NOTE 1.--Yet Adjectives and libero may take the preposition ab,--regularly
so with the Ablative of persons; as,--

urbem a tyranno liberarunt, _they freed the city from the tyrant._

NOTE 2.--Indigeo usually takes the Genitive. See Sec. 212, 1, a.

2. Of Verbs signifying _to keep from_, _to remove_, _to withdraw_, some
take the preposition, others omit it. The same Verb often admits both
constructions. Examples:--

abstinere cibo, _to abstain from food;_

hostes finibus prohibuerunt, _they kept the enemy from their borders_;

praedones ab insula prohibuit, _he kept the pirates from the island_.

3. Other Verbs of separation usually take the Ablative with a Prepositon,
particularly compounds of dis- and se-; as,--