Abstract
SummaryBy prepositions people can more precisely describe complex relations of persons and things than by means of pure cases. Precision was especially necessary in Roman society in the last decades of the Republic, when the economy and jurisprudence flourished. As a response to these growing demands, certain anonymous speakers created an elaborate system of prepositions in the common language. Through this way of giving information the already-existing tendency to pronounce the endings of cases in a lax manner became less troublesome. In relation to modern developments of common language Cicero and Caesar exercised restraint, following their ideal of
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