"De silva in urbem descendo."

Translation: I descend from the forest into the city.

[Iohannulus]

Is the "in" mandatory ? Couldn't it be an accusatif of direction like in "Romam ire" ?

[PeterScham1]

I believe that only applies to cities and other words that take the locative (which is mostly cities, domus, and humus).

[drskaiser]

silva = forest = woods

[BrodToward]

Wouldn't a/ab work as well?

[PeterScham1]

Descendere already implies a motion down, so "de" is a better preposition because is isn't just "from" but "down from". It's fairly common to repeat the preposition with verbs containing the same preposition as a prefix.

[SyedMoheel]

What word form is used with "de"?