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Ano, to Man, | Dat. Anoi, to Men. Ac. Anan, Man, | Ac. Ananda, Men. Voc. Hil-an, O Man, | Voc. Hil-Ananda, O Men. In the elder inflectional literature the dual form existed it has long been obsolete. The genitive case with them is also obsolete; the dative supplies its place: they say the House 'to' a Man, instead of the House 'of' a Man.
I readily grant, that in the modern edition of the Greek Testament I have before me, it is rendered in the dative case, "teen basileian to Theo kai Patri;" "the kingdom to God even the Father." The writer however argued, that as the chapter referred to the general resurrection at the end of time, it seemed to read far better as Christ's mediatoriol kingdom would then terminate.
There is now and then a born philologer, one who studies language for its own sake, studies it perhaps in the spirit of "the scholar who regretted that he had not concentrated his life on the dative case."
* "The Greek wants an ablative, the Italians a dative, I a nominative." "Famous capital!" cried the gentleman in spectacles; and then, touching Colonel Cleland, added, "what does it exactly mean?" "Ignoramus!" said Cleland, disdainfully, "every schoolboy knows Virgil!"
Once I put the question: "What does the Czar govern?" She rested her elbow on her knee and her chin on her hand and took that problem under deep consideration. Presently she looked up and answered, with a rising inflection implying a shade of uncertainty, "The dative case?" Here are a couple of her expositions which were delivered with tranquil confidence: "CHAPLAIN, diminutive of chap.
At all events his fictions and his forgeries had not paid him in that coin which base men generally consider the only coin worth having, namely, the good things of this life. He left nothing behind him if at least Dr. Irving has rightly construed the "Testament Dative" which he gives in his appendix save arrears to the sum of 100 pounds of his Crossraguel pension.
I told her we'd do it by dinner-time: Don't you like Janet, Richie? That is, if our horses' hic- haec-hocks didn't get strained on this hard nominative-plural-masculine of the article road. Don't you fancy yourself dining with the captain, Richie? Dative huic, says old Squire Gregory. I like to see him at dinner, because he loves the smell of his wine.
Potestas==rightful power, authority; potentia==power without regard to right, ability, force, cf. note, 42. Ad rem, cf. Caes. Ambiorix tells Caesar, that though he governed, yet the people made laws for him, and the supreme power was shared equally between him and them. Exemplo imperio. "Dative after sunt==are to set an example, rather than to give command." So Grueber and Doed.
For instance, if one is casually referring to a house, HAUS, or a horse, PFERD, or a dog, HUND, he spells these words as I have indicated; but if he is referring to them in the Dative case, he sticks on a foolish and unnecessary E and spells them HAUSE, PFERDE, HUNDE. So, as an added E often signifies the plural, as the S does with us, the new student is likely to go on for a month making twins out of a Dative dog before he discovers his mistake; and on the other hand, many a new student who could ill afford loss, has bought and paid for two dogs and only got one of them, because he ignorantly bought that dog in the Dative singular when he really supposed he was talking plural which left the law on the seller's side, of course, by the strict rules of grammar, and therefore a suit for recovery could not lie.
"The dative case," resumed the grammarian, "is that in which anything is given or assigned as properly belonging to a person or thing You cannot deny that, I am sure." "I am sure I'll no grant it, though," said Saddletree.
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