Yes carcere is ablative, yesterday I read a large article about Latin ablative (unfortunately, it's in Russian), and there are sixteen (!) kinds of ablative in Latin, some of them require prepositions, and some do not.
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If we consider removing someone from prison, then that would be the so-called "ablativus separationis" (the ablative of separation). It is used either without prepositions or with prepositions such as a, ab, de, e, ex.
The following examples are provided in the article:
Cave tibi =a cane muto= et =aqua silente (Beware (like "save yourself from") a quiet dog and still water)
Duces copias =castris= educunt. (Warlords are leading their troops out of the camp)
The latter example is somewhat like our prison use-case.
Inultos carcere portas? Carry the unavenged out of prison? Maybe. But is "carry" an appropriate word for that? And what shall we do with "te"? Force it to be "tunc"?
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If we consider removing someone from prison, then that would be the so-called "ablativus separationis" (the ablative of separation). It is used either without prepositions or with prepositions such as a, ab, de, e, ex.
The following examples are provided in the article:
Cave tibi =a cane muto= et =aqua silente (Beware (like "save yourself from") a quiet dog and still water)
Duces copias =castris= educunt. (Warlords are leading their troops out of the camp)
The latter example is somewhat like our prison use-case.
Inultos carcere portas? Carry the unavenged out of prison? Maybe. But is "carry" an appropriate word for that? And what shall we do with "te"? Force it to be "tunc"?
