Source: http://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/dative-compounds
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 18:39:55+00:00

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370. Many verbs compounded with ad, ante, con, in, inter, ob, post, prae, prō, sub, super, and some with circum, use the Dative of the Indirect Object.
For I do not agree with them.
Virtues are always connected with pleasures.
He not only had a hand in all matters, but took the lead in them.
It is a point of skill to yield to the weather.
And he will never yield to his foes.
Thus in convocat suōs (he calls his men together) the idea of calling is not so modified as to make an indirect object appropriate. So hominem interficere (to make way with a man, i.e. kill him). But in praeficere imperātōrem bellō (to put a man as commander-in-chief in charge of a war) the idea resulting from the composition is suited to an indirect object (see also b. and § 371, below; also § 388.b).
Note 2— The construction of § 370 is not different in its nature from that of § 362, § 366, and § 367; but the compound verbs make a convenient group.
Who would dare encounter a man well attended?
c. The adjective obvius and the adverb obviam with a verb take the Dative.
371. When place or motion is distinctly thought of, the verbs mentioned in § 370 (above) regularly take a noun with a preposition.
It remains fixed in the vitals.
Eumenes himself engages in combat with him.
Fix your eyes on the senate house.
Macedonia is set to withstand their attacks.
The fire falls upon the standing grain.
Note— But the usage varies in different authors, in different words, and often in the same word and the same sense.
372. Intransitive verbs that govern the Dative are used impersonally in the passive (§ 208.d). The dative is retained (cf. § 365).
That age (youth) not only is not envied, but is even favored.
We must serve the exigency of the occasion.
Note— In poetry the personal construction is sometimes found.

References: § 371
 § 388
 § 370
 § 362
 § 366
 § 367
 § 370
 § 365