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Considering

verbs of, with two accusatives

EXTERNAL OBJECT AND PREDICATE ACCUSATIVE

Verbs meaning to appoint, call, choose, consider, make, name, show, and the like, may take a second accusative as a predicate to the direct object.

στρατηγὸν αὐτὸν ἀπέδειξε he appointed him general X. A. 1.1.2, πατέρα ἐμὲ ἐκαλεῖτε you were wont to call me father 7. 6. 38, αἱρεῖσθαι αὐτὸν τὸν Ἰνδῶν βασιλέᾱ δικαστήν to choose the king of the Indians himself to be arbitrator X. C. 2.4.8, οὐ γὰρ δίκαιον οὔτε τοὺς κακοὺς μάτην χρηστοὺς νομίζειν οὔτε τοὺς χρηστοὺς κακούς for it is not just to consider bad men good at random, or good men bad S. O. T. 609, Τῑμόθεον στρατηγὸν ἐχειροτόνησαν they elected Timotheus general X. H. 6.2.11, τὴν σῑγήν σου ξυγχώρησιν θήσω I shall consider your silence as consent P. Crat. 435b, ἑαυτὸν δεσπότην πεποίηκεν he has made himself master X. C. 1.3.18, ἐᾱ̀ν ἐμὲ σὸν θεράποντα ποιήσῃ if you make me your servant X. O. 7.42, εἰς τοὺς Ἕλληνας σαυτὸν σοφιστὴν παρέχων showing yourself a sophist before the Greeks P. Pr. 312a, εὐμαθῆ πάντα παρέχειν to render everything easy to learn X. O. 20.14. Cp. 1579.

with object clause

OBJECT CLAUSES AFTER VERBS OF EFFORT

After verbs meaning to consider, plan , and try ὄπως or ὡς with the subjunctive (with or without κέ) or optative is used by Homer, who does not employ the future indicative in object clauses denoting a purpose. Thus, φράζεσθαι . . . ὅππως κε μνηστῆρας . . . κτείνῃς consider how thou mayest slay the suitors α 295, πείρᾱ ὅπως κεν δὴ σὴν πατρίδα γαῖαν ἵκηαι try that thou mayest come to thy native land δ 545. Here ὅπως with the future indicative would be the normal Attic usage.