1 n, adj, pron 02a dative

Question 1

ῥόδον ἔδωκα τῇ ἀδελφῇ.

Answer 1

I gave a rose (objet direct) to my sister (objet indirect) or I gave my sister a rose.

Question 2

ἄλλοις μὲν γὰρ χρήματά ἐστι πολλὰ καὶ νῆες καὶ ἵπποι, ἡμῖν δὲ. (Thucydides 1.86.3)

Answer 2

For others have a lot of money and ships and horses, but we have good allies (literally, to others ther is a lot of money …). ___ the possessive dative

Question 3

πᾶς ἀνὴρ αὑτῷ πονεῖ. (Sophocles, Ajax 1366)

Answer 3

Every man toils for himself. ___ of advantage or disadvantage

Question 4

ἥδε ἡ ἡμέρᾱ τοῖς Ἕλλησι μεγάλων κακῶν ἄρξει. (Thucydides 2.12.4)

Answer 4

This day whill be the beginning of great sorrows for the Greeks (i.e., for their disadvantage). ___ of advantage or disadvantage

Question 5

τούτῳ πάνυ μοι προσεχετε τὸν νοῦν. (Demosthenes 18.178)

Answer 5

Pay close attention to this, I beg you. (i.e. please pay …) ___ the ‘ethic’ or ‘polite’ dative

Question 6

ὦ μῆτερ, ὡς καλός μοι ὁ πάππος. Xenophon, Education of Cyrus 1.3.2)

Answer 6

Oh, mother, how handsome grandpa is (I’ve just realised)! (the feeling conveyed is surprise) ___ the ‘ethic’ or ‘polite’ dative

Question 7

σκιαῖς ἐοικότες

Answer 7

like shadows ___ likeness and unlikeness

Question 8

ἀνὴρ ἡλικίᾳ … ἔτι τότε ὢν νέος (Thucydides 5.43.2)

Answer 8

a man who was then still young in age ___ ‘in’

Question 9

ἔβαλλέ με λίθοις. (Lysias 3.8)

Answer 9

He hit me with stones. ___ ‘with’, ‘by’

Question 10

νόσῳ ὕστερον ἀποθανόντα (Thucydides 8.84)

Answer 10

having died later of (from) a disease ___ ‘with’, ‘by’

Question 11

πολλαὶ θεραπεῖαι τοῖς ἰᾱτροῖς εὕρηνται. (Isocrates 8.39)

Answer 11

Many cures have been discovered by doctors. ___ ‘with’, ‘by’ ___ If the agent (doer) of an action is a person, he or she is usually in the genitive after ὑπό (by, at the hands of). However, with the perfect and pluperfect passive, and after the verb

Question 12

τῇ κεφαλῇ μείζονα (Plato, Phaedo 101a)

Answer 12

taller by a head ___ the measurement of difference

Question 13

μακρῷ ἄριστος (Plato, Laws 729d)

Answer 13

by far the best ___ the measurement of difference

Question 14

μίαν δὲ (ναῦν) αὐτοῖς ἀνδράσιν εἷλον ἤδη. (Thucydides 2.90)

Answer 14

They had already taken one ship with its men and all. ___ dative ___ the idiomatic use of the dative plural with αὐτός (usually without the article) in such expressions.

Question 15

ἀποδόσθαι βούλομαι τὸν ὄνον ἄγων αὐτοῖσι τοῖς κανθηλίοις. (Aristophanes, Wasps 169-70)

Answer 15

I want to take this donkey and sell it, pack-saddle and all. ___ dative ___ the idiomatic use of the dative plural with αὐτός (usually without the article) in such expressions.