A short introduction of grammar generally to be used compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latine tongue.

The Ablative case.

ALl verbs require an ablative case of the in∣strument, put with this signe with before it, or of the cause, or of the manner of doing: as, ^a Ferit cum ^b gladio. ^a Taceo ^b metu. Summâ ^b eloquentiâ cau∣sam ^a egit.

The word of price is put after verbs in the ab∣lative case: as, ^a Vendidi ^b auro. ^a Emptus sum ^b argen∣to: Except these genitives, when they be put alone without substantives, Tanti quanti, pluris, minoris, tantivis, tantidem, quantivis, quantilibet, quanticunque: as Quanti ^• mercatus es hunc equum? Certè ^b pluris quàm ^a vellem. Saving that after verbs of price we shal always use these adverbs. Cariùs, viliùs, meliùs, and pejùs, instead of their casuals.

Verbs of plenty or scarceness, filling, emptying, loading or unloading, will have an ablative case: as, ^aAffluis ^bopibus, ^aCares ^bvirtute. ^aExpleote ^bfa∣bulis. ^aSpoliavit me ^b bonis omnibus. ^aOneras stoma∣chum ^b cibo. ^a Levabo te hoc ^b onere, Likewise, Utor, fungor, fruor, potior, laetor, gaudeo, dignor, muto, mu∣nero, communico, afficio, prosequor, impertio, imper∣tior.

Verbs that betoken receiving, or distance, or ta∣king away, will have an ablative case, with, à, ab, è ex, or de: as, ^a Accepit literas ^b à Petro. ^a Audivi ^b ex¦nuncio. Longè ^a distat ^b à nobis. ^a Eripui te ^b è malis. And this ablative after verbs of taking away may be turned into a dative: as, ^a Subtraxit ^b mihi cingulum. ^a Eripuit ^b illi vitam.

Verbs of comparing or exceeding, may have an ablative case of the word that signifieth the mea∣sure of exceeding: as ^a Praefero hunc multis ^b gradibus, I prefer this man by many degrees. ^b Paulo inter∣vallo illum ^a superat, He is beyond the other but a little space.

A noun, or a pronoun substantive, joyned with a participle, expressed or understood, and having none other word whereof it may be governed it shall be put in the ablative case absolute: as, ^a Rege ^b veniente, hostes fugerunt, The King coming, the enemies fled. ^a Me ^b duce, vinces, I being captain, thou shalt overcome.

And it may be resolved by any of these words, Dum, cùm, quando, si, quanquam, postquam: as, ^aRege ^bveniente, id est, Dum veniret rex. ^a Me ^b duce; id est, Si ego dux fuero.