Questions tagged [ablative]

I am reading through Jenney's Second-Year Latin and I'm translating the following sentence: Campaniam depopulatus est, atque ad Praeneste venit milliario ab urbe octavo decimo. The bit about the milestone is confusing me. I translated as: he came…

Consider the phrase I met in Rome with a friend As far as I know, "in Rome" and "with a friend" both represent the ablative case in Latin. Thus, the above could be translated as convēnī Rōmā amīcō (there is probably a more precise verb than…

Are the expressions "mirabile visu", and "horribile dictu", in the ablative case? If so, shouldn't it be "mirabili visu", and "horribili dictu"?

In the sentence: ...quō ubi accēpit, in agrum quem arāverat magnā cum dīligentiā sparsit. quo could either be the adverb meaning where/whereupon, or it could be the relative pronoun, assuming that accipio takes the ablative. however, the object of…