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Depriving

verbs of, with genitive

GENITIVE OF SEPARATION

The genitive, instead of the accusative (1628), may be used with verbs of depriving: ἀποστερεῖ με τῶν χρημάτων he deprives me of my property I. 17.35, τῶν ἄλλων ἀφαιρούμενοι χρήματα taking away property from others X. M. 1.5.3.

with dative

DATIVE OF INTEREST

With verbs of depriving, warding off, and the like, the dative of the person may be used: τὸ συστρατεύειν ἀφελεῖν σφίσιν ἐδεήθησαν they asked him to relieve them (lit. take away for them) from serving in the war X. C. 7.1.44, Δαναοῖσιν λοιγὸν ἄμῡνον ward off ruin from (for) the Danai A 456. So ἀλέξειν τινί τι (poet.). Cp. 1392, 1628.

with two accusatives

DOUBLE OBJECT WITH VERBS SIGNIFYING TO ASK, DEMAND, ETC.

Verbs signifying to ask, clothe or unclothe, conceal, demand, deprive, persuade, remind, teach, take two objects in the accusative, one of a person, the other of a thing.

οὐ τοῦτ᾽ ἐρωτῶ σε that's not the question I'm asking you Ar. Nub. 641; χιτῶνα τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἐκεῖνον ἠμφίεσε he put his own tunic on him X. C. 1.3.17, ἰδοὺ δ᾽ Ἀπόλλων αὐτὸς ἐκδῡ́ων ἐμὲ χρηστηρίᾱν ἐσθῆτα lo Apollo himself divests me of my oracular garb A. Ag. 1269; τὴν θυγατέρα ἔκρυπτε τὸν θάνατον τοῦ ἀνδρός he concealed from his daughter her husband's death L. 32.7; Κῦρον αἰτεῖν πλοῖα to ask Cyrus for boats X. A. 1.3.14, ὡς ἐγώ ποτέ τινα ἢ ἐπρᾱξάμην μισθὸν ἢ ᾔτησα that I ever exacted or asked pay of any one P. A. 31c; τούτων τὴν τῑμὴν ἀποστερεῖ με he deprives me of the value of these things D. 28.13; ῡ̔μᾶς τοῦτο οὐ πείθω I cannot persuade you of this P. A. 37a; ἀναμνήσω ῡ̔μᾶς καὶ τοὺς κινδῡ́νους I will remind you of the dangers also X. A. 3.2.11; οὐδεὶς ἐδίδαξέ με ταύτην τὴν τέχνην nobody taught me this art X. O. 19.16.