Articular infinitive
DATIVE OF THE ARTICULAR INFINITIVE
a. With verbs, adjectives, and adverbs: thus, ἵνα . . . ἀπιστῶσι τῷ ἐμὲ τετῑμῆσθαι ὑπὸ δαιμόνων
that they may distrust my having been honoured by divine powers Ap. 14, τῷ ζῆν ἐστί τι ἐναντίον, ὥσπερ τῷ ἐγρηγορέναι τὸ καθεύδειν; is it something opposed to living, as sleeping to waking? Ph. 71c, οὐδενὶ τῶν πάντων πλέον κεκράτηκε Φίλιππος ἢ τῷ πρότερος πρὸς τοῖς πρᾱ́γμασι γίγνεσθαι
Philip has conquered us by nothing so much as by being beforehand in his operations 8.11, ἅμα τῷ τῑμᾶν at the same time that we honour R. 468e, ἴσον δὲ τῷ προστένειν
equal to sorrowing beforehand Ag. 252.
b. After prepositions: e.g. οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῷ δοῦλοι, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τῷ ὁμοῖοι τοῖς λειπομένοις εἶναι ἐκπέμπονται (ἄποικοι) for colonists are not sent out on the basis of being inferiors, but on the basis of being the equals of those who are left at home 1.34, ὁ μὲν πρὸς τῷ μηδὲν ἐκ τῆς πρεσβείᾱς λαβεῖν, τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους . . . ἐλῡ́σατο
the one, in addition to gaining nothing from the embassy, ransomed the prisoners of war 19.229, ἐν τῷ φρονεῖν γὰρ μηδὲν ἥδιστος βίος
for life is sweetest in being conscious of nothing Aj. 553.
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