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§§1460–1468DATIVE AS DIRECT COMPLEMENT OF VERBSThe dative may be used as the sole complement of many verbs that are usually transitive in English. Such are

§2590INDIRECT DISCOURSE(I) Direct Discourse (Oratio Recta).—In a direct quotation the words or thoughts quoted are given at first hand in the exact form used by the original speaker or thinker. Μεγαρέες …

§2590 aINDIRECT DISCOURSE(I) Direct Discourse (Oratio Recta).—In a direct quotation the words or thoughts quoted are given at first hand in the exact form used by the original speaker or thinker. Μεγαρέες …

§§2681–2684EXCLAMATORY SENTENCESDirect (independent) exclamatory sentences with a verb expressed (or easily supplied) are formed

§919SYNTAX OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCEObject.—A verb may have an object on which its action is exerted. The object is a substantive (or its equivalent, 908) in an oblique case. An object may be direct (in the accusativ…

§1553ACCUSATIVEThe accusative is the case of the direct object (919). The accusative is used with all transitive verbs (and with some intransitive verbs used transitively), with some verbal nouns…

§1706ACTIVE VOICEThe object of a transitive verb is always put in the accusative (1553).

§1554ACCUSATIVEThe direct object is of two kinds: a. The internal object (object effected): ὁ ἀνὴρ τύπτει πολλᾱ̀ς πληγᾱ́ς the man strikes many blows. N. 1.—Here the object is already contained (o…

§1556ACCUSATIVEThe direct object of an active transitive verb becomes the subject of the passive: ὁ παῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς τύπτεται the boy is struck by the man. a. The object of a verb governing th…

§1743PASSIVE VOICEThe direct object of an active verb becomes the subject of the passive: ἡ ἐπιστολὴ ὑπὸ τοῦ διδασκάλου γράφεται the letter is written by the teacher (active ὁ διδάσκαλος γράφει τὴν …

§§1716–1722MIDDLE VOICEThe object of the middle (1) may belong in the sphere of the subject, as his property, etc.: λούομαι τᾱ̀ς χεῖρας I wash my hands, or (2) it may be brought into the sphere of the su…

§1748PASSIVE VOICEAn active verb followed by an accusative of the direct object (a thing) and an oblique case of a person, retains, when transferred to the passive, the accusative of the direct obje…

§1717MIDDLE VOICEThe Direct Reflexive Middle represents the subject as acting directly on himself. Self is here the direct object. So with verbs expressing external and natural acts, as the verbs o…

§1718MIDDLE VOICESo with many other verbs, as ἵστασθαι stand (place oneself), τρέπεσθαι turn (lit. turn oneself), δηλοῦσθαι show oneself, τάττεσθαι post oneself, ἀπολογεῖσθαι defend oneself (argue …

§1730MIDDLE VOICEDeponent verbs are either direct or indirect middles; direct: ὑπισχνεῖσθαι undertake, promise (lit. hold oneself under); indirect: κτᾶσθαι acquire for oneself, ἀγωνίζεσθαι contend …

§§1218–1224THE REFLEXIVE PRONOUNSDirect Reflexives.—The reflexive pronouns are used directly when they refer to the chief word (usually the subject) of the sentence or clause in which they stand. γνῶθι σεαυτόν lea…

§1228 N. 3THE REFLEXIVE PRONOUNSInstead of the indirect ἑαυτοῦ, etc., there may be used a. The oblique cases of αὐτός: ἐπειρᾶτο τοὺς Ἀθηναίους τῆς ἐς αὐτὸν ὀργῆς παραλῡ́ειν he tried to divert the Athenians from t…