[B-Greek] Dative absolute (was: Mt 9:27)

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Mar 4 11:39:01 EST 2004


At 5:31 PM +0100 3/4/04, Arie Dirkzwager wrote:
>R. Kühner - B. Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, II
>Satzlehre, 2. Band, Darmstadt 1966 (=Hannover-Leipzig 1904), p. 113, gives
>exampels in Classical Greek where a dative with a participle is used "in
>stead of" an other case.
>It seems there that one can find for every exampel a reason why the author
>could use the "abnormal" dative, mostly unconsciously e.g. thinking about a
>synonymous construction where the dative is usual.
>I quote Thucydides I 62: HN hH GNWMH TOU ARISTEWS TO MEN MEQ' hEAUTOU
>STRATOPEDON ECONTI EN TWi ISQMWi EPITHREIN TOUS AQHNAIOUS. Thucydides (so
>Kühner-Gerth) wrote HN hH GNWMH TOU ARISTEWS but thought of EDOXEN AUTWi,
>which has the dative.
>
>So I think one can imagine for Mt 14: 6 a reason to put GENESIOIS in the
>dative: dative used to indicate a feast like in DIONUSIOIS TOIS MEGALOIS.
>
>[I believe the grammar of Kühner-Gerth can be found somewhere on a website]

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0019&layout=&loc=1&query=toc

and

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0020&layout=&loc=344&query=toc

and

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0021&layout=&loc=&query=toc

It's a bit unwieldy to have the TOC on three different pages like this, but
it's good to have this massive and important work available.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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