W. M. Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus

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The ‘Partitive’ Genitive with largiter, adfatim borders on the ‘Genitive of Plenty and Want.’ Here, as we have seen, the Ablative competes with the Genitive -- cf.

• Amph. 170 “laboris expers”,
• Asin. 43 “expers metu”;
• Bacch. 849 “exheres vitae”,
• Most. 234 “exheres bonis”,

-- although different words seem to show a predilection for the one Case or the other. Thus

• plenus is found 24 times with Genitive but only once with Ablative, Merc. 881 “caelum ut est splendore plenum!”;
• careo with the Genitive does not occur (by accident?) in the extant plays of Plautus, but is found once in Terence, Heaut. 400 “tui carendum quod erat”;
• cumulatus takes Genitive in Aul. 825 “scelerum cumulatissume” (cf. Caecilius 61 “homo ineptitudinis cumulatus”);
• levare in Rud. 247 “ut me omnium iam laborum levas!”;
onustus with Genitive is found twice in the phrase aula onusta auri in Aul. 611, 617;
• on the other hand compos, which usually takes Genitive, appears with Ablative in Capt. 217 “ea (sc. copia) facitis nos compotes”; also Naevius trag. 5 “eam nunc esse inventam probris compotem scis”, Accius 37 “magnis compotem et multis malis” (cf. Ablative with compotire, 68).

From the other Dramatists may be cited Pacuvius 291 “postquam est oneratus frugum et floris Liberi”, Pomponius 101 “domus haec fervit flagiti”. Vitae seems to be Genitive in Stich. 18 “haec res vitae me, soror, saturant”.