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Although you may never have thought about this before, people from around the Roman Empire
whose native language was not Latin had to \emph{learn Latin}
as adults in the ancient world, just as we are doing now.  This was true in particular
if they did business in Rome or if they needed to interact with Roman government officials, for
instance in order to make a will to manage inheritance of goods after their deaths.  
\emph{Dositheus Magister} was a Greek grammarian who lived in Rome in the 4th century CE and
taught Latin to Greek speakers.  The following interesting sentences
are taken from his discussion of the cases in Latin in a surviving ``textbook'' he authored.
To interpret the following,
it helps to know that there is \emph{no ablative case in Greek} and the uses of that case in 
Latin are essentially distributed between the Greek dative and genitive cases.  
Dositheus (or the sources on which he was drawing) invents a ``seventh case'' to show how Latin matches up with Greek.
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Casus sunt VI: nominativus, genetivus, dativus, accusativus, vocativus, ablativus.
Adicitur\footnote{from: adici\=o, adicere, adi\=ec\=\i, adiectum, 3rd conjugation, -io group,
``to add''} \=a diligentioribus\footnote{diligentior is a comparative adjective used
as a substantive = ``a more diligent person''} etiam septimus casus.
Semper ablativus un\=o mod\=o profertur\footnote{this verb is a present passive form: 
"is used in one way"}, 
cum \=a persona aut \=a loc\=o aut \=a r\=e ablatum quid\footnote{"something is taken away"} -- 
\emph{ab urbe in Africam redit}\footnote{from the irregular verb rede\=o, red\=\i re, redi\=\i, reditum, ``to go back''} ... Septimus v\=er\=o casus 
modis IIII profertur.  Primo, cum
in pers\=on\=a aut in loc\=o aut in r\=e intelligitur -- \emph{in statu\=a Ciceronis victoria ... inscribitur}.  Et interpretatur talis figura per dativum\footnote{That is, in Greek it would be 
a dative and Dositheus gives a Greek version}.  Quae regula etiam in nominibus secundae
declinationis, qu\=orum ablativus et dativus idem est, observatur et in nominibus tertiae
declinationis, qu\=orum item ablativus et dativus idem est.  
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Dositheus then goes on to discuss the three other uses of the ablative in Latin that
correspond to either uses of the genitive or the dative in Greek.
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{\it Translation (JL)}:  There are six cases: the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, 
vocative, and ablative.  But a seventh case is also added by more diligent people.  The ablative is
always used in one way when something is taken away from a person, or a place, or a thing.
For instance as in the phrase, \emph{ab urbe in Africam redit} (``he returned from the city
into Africa'').  But the seventh case
is used in four ways.  First, when it is understood in or on a person, place, or thing:  
\emph{in statu\=a Ciceronis victoria ... inscribitur} (``on the statue of Cicero, the
victory was inscribed'').  And such a figure (of speech) is translated with the dative
(in Greek).  Which rule is even observed in the nouns of the second declension, 
whose ablative and dative are identical, and in nouns of the third declension whose
ablative and dative are also identical.
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