§435. Adverbs and Prepositions

The following Prepositions sometimes come after their nouns: ad, citrā, circum, contrā, dē, ē ( ex), inter, iūxtā, penes, propter, ultrā; so regularly tenus and versus, and occasionally others:—

• [ūsus] quem penes arbitrium est et iūs et norma loquendī; (Hor. A. P. 72), custom, under whose control is the choice, right, and rule of speech.
• cûius ā mē corpus est cremātum, quod contrā decuit ab illō meum (Cat. M. 84), whose body I burned [on the funeral pile], while on the contrary (contrary to which) mine should have been burned by him.

Syntax of the Verb