genitive of place

Place.—The genitive denotes the place within which or at which an action happens. This is more frequent in poetry than in prose.

πεδίοιο διωκέμεν to chase over the plain E 222, ἷζεν τοίχου τοῦ ἑτέροιο he was sitting by the other wall (lit. in a place of the wall) I 219, λελουμένος Ὠκεανοῖο having bathed in Oceanus E 6, οὔτε Πύλου ἱερῆς οὔτ᾽ Ἄργεος οὔτε Μυκήνης neither in sacred Pylos nor in Argos nor in Mycenae φ 108, τόνδ᾽ εἰσεδέξω τειχέων thou didst admit this man within the walls E. Phoen. 451, ἰέναι τοῦ πρόσω to go forward X. A. 1.3.1, ἐπετάχῡνον τῆς ὁδοῦ τοὺς σχολαίτερον προσιόντας they hastened on their way those who came up more slowly T. 4.47; λαιᾶς χειρὸς οἰκοῦσι they dwell on the left hand A. Pr. 714 (possibly ablatival).