[B-Greek] Jussive Dative?

Ann Nyland nyland at tsn.cc
Wed Mar 19 19:40:08 EDT 2008


I've had a quick look through the notes on Leaf and Bayfield's 1931 
commentary, but can't find it - do you have the line number?
Ann
----- Original Message ----- 
On Mar 19, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Edgar Foster wrote:

> Dear B-Greekers,
>
> I've been translating certain books of the Iliad with
> some colleagues of mine and we use Leaf's commentary
> to help us understand what transpiring in certain
> parts of the Iliad. While translating book 9 of the
> Iliad, we ran across some terminology in Leaf that had
> us befuddled. Leaf talks about a "jussive dative," if
> I am not mistaken. While his explanation of what a
> jussive dative is supposed to be, I would like to ask
> if anyone else on the list has run across this
> terminology before. I'm sorry that I do not have the
> exact quote, but I can supply it later. I tried to
> access Leaf's commentary through Perseus, but the site
> gave me problems. I guess my questions are what is a
> jussive dative and is this standard terminology in
> Greek studies? I've tried finding this nomenclature in
> other grammars and might have just overlooked it. 




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