within (prep.) Copy link Outline 1. intra, with acc. (of place, time, and limit generally)2. inter, with acc. (during a definite time)3. in, with abl.4. cis, with acc. (on the hither side of a boundary)5. citra, with acc. • within (prep.): 1. intra, with acc. (of place, time, and limit generally): w. my walls, intra parietes meos, Cic. Att. 3, 10, 2: who had received Ariovistus w. their borders, qui intra fines suos Ariovistum recepissent, Caes. B. G. 1, 32: w. twenty days, intra viginti dies, Pl. Curc. 3, 1, 77: to banquet w. the law, epulari intra legem, Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 4. 2. inter, with acc. (during a definite time): the crimes committed w. ten years, quae inter decem annos nefarie facta sunt, Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 13, 37. 3. in, with abl.: they keep their forces w. the camp, copias in castris continent, Caes. B. C. 1, 66: w. a few days, in diebus paucis, Ter. And. 1, 1, 77. 4. cis, with acc. (on the hither side of a boundary): the Germans who dwell w. the Rhine, Germanos qui cis Rhenum incolunt, Caes. B. G. 2, 3: w. a few days, cis dies paucos, Pl. Truc. 2, 3, 27 (only in Plautus and late writers thus). 5. citra, with acc.: w. the mountain-range of Taurus, c. Tauri juga, Liv. 38, 48. Phr.: he was w. a little of being killed, haud multum afuit quin interficeretur, Liv. 42, 44.