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

Arie Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Thu Mar 4 11:31:21 EST 2004


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]

Arie


Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be

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Verzonden: donderdag 4 maart 2004 14:48
Onderwerp: [B-Greek] Dative absolute (was: Mt 9:27)


> I have found the following construction called a "dative absolute", too:
>
> Matthew 14:6 GENESIOIS DE GENOMENOIS TOU HRWDOU WRCHSATO H QUGATHR THS
> HRWDIADOS ...
>
> (It has been changed into the Genitive in the Byzantine text.)
>
> Best wishes
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