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With such deficiencies, Rose offers Hyginus no mercy: Hyginus' style is poor and jejune, with no very outstanding characteristics save its very feebleness and clumsiness we must remember two characteristics …

Lewis and Short provide some guidance on the limitations of the pre-consonant use of ab: [ab] has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only …

However, according to Wikipedia, neither Caesar nor Aulus Hirtius (the author of the final book of De Bello Gallico) is believed to have written these works: Due to considerable differences in style … What is it about the style of these two works that preclude the possibility that Caesar or Hirtius wrote them? An overview of the main differences, preferably with a few examples, would be great. …

I understand from Lingua Latina per se Illustrata (chap. 6) that the prepositions ā and ab are equivalent, except that ā is used only before words beginning with consonants, while ab can be used befor …