Semantic roles (AGDT table)
The dative may be used of a person to whose case the statement of the predicate is limited.
φευγειν αὐτοῖς ἀσφαλέστερόν ἐστιν ἢ ἡμῖν
it is safer for them to flee than for us A. 3.2.19, τριήρει ἐστὶν εἰς Ἡρᾱ́κλειαν ἡμέρᾱς μακρᾶς πλοῦς for a trireme it is a long day's sail to Heraclea 6. 4. 2. Such cases as δρόμος ἐγένετο τοῖς στρατιώταις
the soldiers began to run A. 1.2.17 belong here rather than under 1476 or 1488.
a. ὡς restrictive is often added: μακρᾱ̀ ὡς γέροντι ὁδός a long road (at least) for an old man O. C. 20, σωφροσύνης δὲ ὡς πλήθει οὐ τὰ τοιάδε μέγιστα; for the mass of men are not the chief points of temperance such as these? R. 389d.
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