by apposition: montem _apud_ Erycum (IV. 43), uxore _ab_ Octavia
(IV. 43--XIII. 12). These usages are not found in the other
works ascribed to Tacitus, nor any of the ancient Latin
prose-writers; though common enough in the poets, the three
instances being found in Virgil;--the first in the Aeneid:--

"Cum litora fervere late
Prospiceres arce _ex_ summa:"
Aen. IV. 409-10;

"Vespere _ab_ atro
Consurgunt venti:" Aen. V. 19-20

And--

"Graditur bellum _ad_ crudele Camilla:"
Ib. XI. 535;

The second in the Georgics:

"Si non tanta quies iret frigusque caloremque
_Inter_:"
Georg. II. 344;

And shortly after,

"Pagos et compita _circum_:"
Ib. 382;

And the third in the Aeneid: