[1199.] A few compound verbs admit either the dative of the person or thing and accusative of the thing, or the accusative of the person or thing and ablative of the thing; such are adspergō and īnspergō, circumdō, circumfundō, exuō and induō, impertiō, interclūdō; also the uncompounded dōnō: as, praedam mīlitibus dōnat, 7, 11, 9, he presents the booty to the soldiers. scrībam tuum ānulō dōnāstī, V. 3, 185, you presented your clerk with a ring. For the different constructions of interdīcō, see the dictionary.
[1200.] The dative with many adjectives and some adverbs denotes that to which the quality is directed.
Such have the meaning of useful, necessary, fit, easy, agreeable, known, near, belonging, friendly, faithful, like, and most of their opposites; the adjective is often predicative: as, vēr ūtile silvīs ([1036]), V. G. 2, 323, the spring is good for woods. est senātōrī necessārium nōsse rem pūblicam, Leg. 3, 41, for a senator it is indispensable to be conversant with government. ōrātiōnis genus pompae quam pugnae aptius, O. 42, a style better suited to the parade than to the field. convenienter nātūrae vīvere, Off. 3, 13, to live in touch with nature.
[1201.] Some adjectives of this class have the dative of a person, the accusative with ad of a thing: so accommodātus, aptus, idōneus, necessārius, and ūtilis; and some denoting feeling have also the accusative with a preposition: aequus, inīquus, fidēlis with in, benevolus with ergā, and impius with adversus. propior and proximus sometimes accompany an accusative, like prope, propius, and proximē.
[1202.] The adjectives commūnis, proprius or aliēnus, sacer, tōtus, often accompany the construction of the genitive of the owner: see [1238]. For aliēnus with the ablative, see [1306]. Sometimes aliēnus has the ablative with ab.
[1203.] Some adjectives denoting relationship, connection, friendship or hostility, become substantives, and as such, admit the genitive also ([1103]): such are (a.) adfīnis, cōgnātus; (b.) aequālis, familiāris, fīnitimus, pār and dispār, propīnquus, vīcīnus; (c.) adversārius, amīcus, inimīcus, necessārius.
[1204.] In Plautus and Terence, similis, the like, the counterpart, and its compounds, regularly take the genitive. The dative, as well as the genitive, is also used from Ennius on, particularly of a limited or approximate likeness: see the dictionary.