Ad
Preposition
used with Accusative only.
The circumflected accents
are used to mark the vowels' length.
Non figurative usage
1. Space: to,
up to, towards, near, at
-
Mucius ad castra hostium venit.
Mucius
came to the enemy camp.
-
Porsenna castra ad moenia orbis
posuit.
Porsenna
placed the camp near the city walls.
2. Time: until,
on, by
-
Milites ad noctem pugnabant.
The soldiers
were fighting till the night.
Figurative usage
1. Purpose: to,
at
-
Milites ad pugnam imperator cohortabatur.
The commander
exhorted the soldiers to battle.
2. Manner: by,
in this manner
-
Hunc ad modum diu pugnaverunt.
In this
manner they were fighting for long time.
3. Quantity: about
-
Ad ducentum militum vulnerati sunt.
About
two hundreds soldiers were wounded.
Expressions
-
ad verbum
to
a word
-
referre ad Senatum to
report to the Senate
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