Cambridge Preterm Latin language pack

case usage in Ancient Greek and Latin: some major categories
For the full accounts in English see Smyth and Woodcock (fuller than the just adequate Goodwin and Kennedy), if you have
German (or even if you don’t!) see Schwyzer vol. 2 and Leumann-Hofmann-Szantyr (bibliographies below).
1. accusative can be said to fall into four major uses:
1. direct object
2. marking motion or extent (of time or place): Romam, quattor dies
3. cognate accusative: uitam uiuo, !"#$% !&#'()*$& (a.k.a. figura etymologica)
4. adverbial accusative (! accusative of respect): quid, +&: ‘somewhat’
2. genitive
N.B. Schwyzer’s Gk categories: 1. ABLATIVE 2. PARTITIVE 3. OF BELONGING (‘Pertinentiv’) 4. SYNCRETISTIC
1. ‘adnominal’: genitives that ‘qualify’ nouns: fratris mors = mors fraterna
2. genitive of the charge, memory (and forgetting), source of emotion: ADVERBIAL
3. possessive: +, -"-.&)/ $0+)1; MORE COMMON IN LATIN: hominis errare est: ‘it is human to err’
4. subjective: amor Dei—God’s love for us
5. objective: amor Dei—our love for God
6. partitive: tantum pecuniae, 23% +)4)1+)/ 5-627% (note the / here)
7. of definition (‘appositional’): uirtus iustitiae (Eng. ‘the city of London’ but Lat. urbs Roma)
8. of description: homo eius modi
9. of price and value: magni facio, 8)..)1 9/ +)1+) 8)&:4$"*:/: Lys. 1.1
10. ‘time within which’: anni, ;/&$