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Cloud-compelling Zeus, Godlike Paris fights in front for the Trojans, instead of "in front of." There about the hollow cave trailed a gadding vine. Where in the original the Greek word "cave" is in the genitive case, not as it should be, dative. And the cause of the mutation is that the nominative accusative and vocative seem to have a certain relation to one another.
"Then, what the deevil d'ye take the nominative and the dative cases to be?" said Butler, hastily, and surprised at once out of his decency of expression and accuracy of pronunciation. "I'll tell you that at leisure, Mr. Butler," said Saddletree, with a very knowing look; "I'll take a day to see and answer every article of your condescendence, and then I'll hold you to confess or deny as accords."
* "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/!"
He very soon set down poor Tom as a thoroughly stupid lad; for though by hard labor he could get particular declensions into his brain, anything so abstract as the relation between cases and terminations could by no means get such a lodgment there as to enable him to recognize a chance genitive or dative. This struck Mr.
An oblique censure of the Romans for purchasing peace and alliance with the Germans, cf. XVI. Populis. Dative of the agent instead of the abl. with a or ab. Cf. note 3: Ulixi. Ne quidem. These words are always separated, the word on which the emphasis rests being placed between them. Here however the emphasis seems to belong to the whole clause Inter se, sc. sedes junctas inter se.
After a night behind the scenes, Paul found the school-room more than ever repulsive; the bare floors and naked walls; the prosy men who never wore frock coats, or violets in their buttonholes; the women with their dull gowns, shrill voices, and pitiful seriousness about prepositions that govern the dative.
"After envy, spare, obey, The dative put, remember, pray." Mr. Ogilvy noticed that Cathro tapped his forehead doubtfully every time his eyes fell on Tommy, but otherwise shunned him, and he asked "What are his chances?" "That's the laddie," replied Mr. Cathro, "who, when you took her ladyship to see Corp Shiach years ago impersona " "I know," Mr.
"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.
"Dante, an animal called otherwise the Great Beast." See the work as above entitled, Paris, 1840, p. 60. "Bici" is the Latin dative case of Bice, the abbreviation of Beatrice. This employment, by the way, of an abbreviated name in a will, may seem to go counter to the deductions respecting the name of Dante. And it may really do so.
PROCESSERIT: probably the subject is sapiens, in which case aetate must also be supplied from aetatis; the subject may however be aetas. OSTENDIT: 'gives promise of'; cf. With the whole passage cf. pro Cael. 76. UT ... DIXI: in 9, 60, 62. SECUNDUM NATURAM: = κατα φυσιν a Stoic phrase; cf. n. on 5 naturam optimam ducem. SENIBUS: dative of reference; emori stands as subject to an implied est.
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