fit ob viam Clōdiō, Mil. 29, he runs across Clodius. cui bene dīxit umquam bonō? Sest. 110, for what patriot had he ever a good word? nōs, virī fortēs, satis facere rē̆ī pūblicae vidēmur, C. 1, 2, we doughty champions flatter ourselves we are doing our whole duty by the state. Similarly with verbs of transitive use.
[1188.] (2.) Many verbs of intransitive use compounded with a preposition take a dative connected in sense with the preposition: as,
manus extrēma nōn accessit operibus eius, Br. 126, the last touch was not put upon his works. omnibus adfuit hīs pugnīs Dolābella, Ph. 2, 75, Dolabella was on hand in all these battles. pontō nox incubat ātra, V. 1, 89, over the deep, night broodeth black. cōgnitiōnibus dē Chrīstiānīs interfuī numquam, Plin. Ep. ad Trai. 96 [97], 1, I have never been to any of the trials of the Christians.
[1189.] The prepositions are chiefly ad, ante, com-, in, inter, ob, prae, sub, or super. In many compounds of these prepositions, however, the dative is due to the general meaning of the verb, as in cōnfīdit mihī̆, he puts all trust in me ([1181]), as contrasted with cōnsentit mihī̆, he feels with me, nearly equivalent to sentit mēcum ([1188]).
[1190.] Instead of the dative, such verbs often have a prepositional construction, particularly when place, literal or figurative, is distinctly to be expressed: as,
accēdere in fūnus, Leg. 2, 66, to go to a funeral. in morbum incidit, Clu. 175, he fell ill.
[1191.] Some verbs of intransitive use take, when compounded, either the dative or the accusative. See adiaceō, antecēdō, anteeō, praecurrō, praestō, incēdō, inlūdō, īnsultō, invādō, in the dictionary. And some compounds acquire a transitive use altogether, as obeō, oppugnō: see [1137].
With Verbs of Transitive Use.
[1192.] (1.) Many verbs of transitive use take the dative: as,