Agent

§839FORMATION OF SUBSTANTIVESAGENCY a. The primary suffixes τᾱ, τηρ, τορ, τρο, ευ, denoting the agent or 1. τᾱ (nom. -τή-ς): κρι-τή-ς judge (κρῑ́νω decide, κρι-), κλέπ-τη-ς thief (κλέπ- steal), ποιη-τή-ς poet,…

§859. 1, 10LIST OF NOUN SUFFIXESVOWEL SUFFIXES 1. ο: nom. -ο-ς masc., fem., -ο-ν neut. A common suffix in primitives denoting persons (usually male agents) or things (often abstracts). ἀρχ-ό-ς leader from ἄρχ-ω l…

§860. 1LIST OF NOUN SUFFIXESSUFFIXES WITH LIQUIDS (λ, ρ) 1. λο, λᾱ: primary, in φῦ-λο-ν race, φῡ-λή clan (φῡ́-ω produce), πῖ-λο-ς felt (Lat. pi-lu-s), ζεύγ-λη loop of a yoke (ζεύγ-νῡ-μι yoke); ἆθ-λο-ς contest…

§861. 18LIST OF NOUN SUFFIXESSUFFIXES WITH NASALS (μ, ν) 1. μο, μᾱ (nom. μο-ς; -μᾰ and -μη): primary, in substantives denoting actions or abstract ideas (840 a. 5-7), and in some concretes: χῡ-μό-ς juice (χέω …

§863 a 2, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16LIST OF NOUN SUFFIXESSUFFIXES WITH DENTALS (τ, δ, θ) a. Suffixes with τ. 1. τ: primary, at the end of stems, as ἀ-γνώς, ἀ-γνῶ-τ-ος unknown (γι-γνώ-σκω know). 2. το, τᾱ: primary, in verbal adjectives in…

§§1488–1494DATIVE OF INTERESTDative of the Agent.—With passive verbs (usually in the perfect and pluperfect) and regularly with verbal adjectives in -τός and -τέος, the person in whose interest an action is do…

§1758PASSIVE VOICEThe dative of the agent used with the perfect passive and verbal adjective is a dative of interest (1488); on ὑπό with the genitive used instead of the dative, see 1493, 1494.

§2149. 2VERBAL ADJECTIVES IN -τέοςVerbal adjectives in -τέος express necessity. They admit two constructions: 1. The personal construction (-τέος, -τέᾱ, -τέον), passive in meaning, and emphasizing the subject. 2. T…

§2151VERBAL ADJECTIVES IN -τέοςThe Personal (Passive) Construction.—The personal verbal in -τέος is used only when the verb from which it is derived takes the accusative. The verbal agrees with the subject in ge…

§2152VERBAL ADJECTIVES IN -τέοςThe Impersonal (Active) Construction.—The impersonal verbal stands in the neuter nominative, usually singular (-τέον), rarely plural (-τέᾰ). Its object stands in the case (genitive…

§§1491–1494DATIVE OF INTERESTThe person by whom (not for whom) an action is explicitly said to be done, is put in the genitive with ὑπό (1698. 1. b).

§1678ORDINARY USES OF THE PREPOSITIONSThe agent is expressed by different prepositions with the genitive: ὑπό of persons and things personified (1698. 1. N. 1): the normal usage in Attic prose. παρά: here the agent is …

§1684. 1 c (2)ἀπόἀπό (Lesb. etc. ἀπύ) from, off, away from; originally of separation and departure. Cp. Lat. ab, Eng. off, of. 1. ἀπό with the Genitive only a. Local: καταπηδήσᾱς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἵππου leap…

§1685. 2 dδιάδιά (Lesb. ζά) through, originally through and out of, and apart (separation by cleavage), a force seen in comp. (cp. Lat. dis-, Germ. zwi-schen). 1. διά with the Genitive a. Local…

§1688. 1 cἐξ, ἐκἐξ, ἐκ out, out of, from, from within, opposed to ἐν, εἰς; cp. Lat. ex, e. As contrasted with ἀπό away from, ἐξ denotes from within. 1. ἐξ, ἐκ with the (Ablatival) Genitive only In…

§1695. 1 bπρόςπρός (Hom. also προτί), at, by (fronting). Of like meaning, but of different origin, is Hom. ποτί. 1. πρός with the Genitive a. Local (not common in prose): τὸ πρὸς ἑσπέρᾱς τεῖχος …

§1698. 1 bὑπόὑπό (Hom. also ὑπαί, Lesbian ὐπα-), under, by, Lat. sub. 1. ὑπό with the Genitive a. Local (rare in Attic prose): out from under (poet., cp. ὑπέκ): ῥέει κρήνη ὑπὸ σπείους a spring …

§1755PASSIVE VOICEThe agent of the passive is regularly expressed by ὑπό and the genitive; sometimes by ἀπό, διά, ἐκ, παρά, πρός with the genitive, or by ὑπό with the dative (in poetry). See 1678.

§1685. 2 dδιάδιά (Lesb. ζά) through, originally through and out of, and apart (separation by cleavage), a force seen in comp. (cp. Lat. dis-, Germ. zwi-schen). 1. διά with the Genitive a. Local…

§1698. 2 bὑπόὑπό (Hom. also ὑπαί, Lesbian ὐπα-), under, by, Lat. sub. 1. ὑπό with the Genitive a. Local (rare in Attic prose): out from under (poet., cp. ὑπέκ): ῥέει κρήνη ὑπὸ σπείους a spring …

§2152 aVERBAL ADJECTIVES IN -τέοςThe Impersonal (Active) Construction.—The impersonal verbal stands in the neuter nominative, usually singular (-τέον), rarely plural (-τέᾰ). Its object stands in the case (genitive…