subjective genitive

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The Subjective Genitive is active in sense: τῶν βαρβάρων φόβος the fear of the barbarians (which they feel: οἱ βάρβαροι φοβοῦνται) X. A. 1.2.17, ἡ βασιλέως ἐπιορκίᾱ the perjury of the king (βασιλεὺς ἐπιορκεῖ) 3. 2. 4, τὸ ὀργιζόμενον τῆς γνώμης their angry feelings T. 2.59 (such genitives with substantive participles are common in Thucydides; cp. 1153 b, N. 2).

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