A preposition in composition sometimes governs the same case which it also governed out of composition, as
Jupiter Olympo Vulcanum calce exegit:
Jupiter kicked Vulcan out of Olympus.
This was not only an ungentlemanly, but also an ungodly act on Jupiter’s part. Reasoning à posteriori, one would think it must have been very unpleasant to Vulcan.
Præteriit me in Quadrante insalutatum:
He cut me in the Quadrant.
Verbs compounded with a, ab, de, e, ex, in, sometimes repeat the same prepositions with their case out of composition, and that elegantly, as
Abstinuerunt a vino:
They abstained from wine.
This properly is an allusion to the Tiber-totallers. It should be remembered that tea was unknown in Rome, except as the accusative case of a pronoun.