Terminal accusative

In poetry after verbs of motion the accusative may be used without a preposition to express the goal.

ἄστυ Καδμεῖον μολών having come to the city of Cadmus S. O. T. 35, πέμψομέν νιν Ἑλλάδα we will convey her to Greece E. Tro. 883. Of persons in Hom. (especially with ἱκνέομαι, ἵκω, ἱκᾱ́νω = reach) and in the lyric parts of the drama: μνηστῆρας ἀφῑ́κετο came unto the suitors α 332. Cp. “arrived our coast”: Shakesp. In Hdt. 9.26 φαμὲν ἡμέας ἱκνέεσθαι means we declare that it befits us.

The limit of motion is also expressed by -δε (ἄστυδε Hom., in prose, Ἀθήναζε = Ἀθήνᾱς + δε; χαμᾶζε or χαμάζε = χαμᾱς + δε, cp. χαμα-ί; οἴκαδε) and, regularly in prose, by εἰς, ἐπί, παρά, πρός, ὡς (with a person) with the accusative.