§401. Uses of the Ablative Proper

Verbs meaning to remove, set free, be absent, deprive, and want, take the Ablative (sometimes with ab or ex):—

• oculīs sē prīvāvit (Fin. 5.87), he deprived himself of eyes.
• omnī Galliā Rōmānīs interdīcit (B. G. 1.46), he (Ariovistus) bars the Romans from the whole of Gaul.
• eī aquā et īgnī interdīcitur (Vell. 2.45), he is debarred the use of fire and water. [The regular formula of banishment.]
• voluptātibus carēre (Cat. M. 7), to lack enjoyments.
• nōn egeō medicīnā (Lael. 10), I want no physic.
• levāmur superstitiōne, līberāmur mortis metū (Fin. 1.63), we are relieved from superstition, we are freed from fear of death.
• solūtī ā cupiditātibus (Leg. Agr. 1.27), freed from desires.
• multōs ex hīs incommodīs pecūniā sē līberāsse (Verr. 5.23), that many have freed themselves by money from these inconveniences.

For the Genitive with verbs of separation and want, see § 356. N.