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  • noun Plural form of dative.

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  • Actually, they were the grammatical objects, maybe even indirect ones, and possibly even datives, but definitely not ablatives.

    Shang A Lang. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • I think Vulgar Latin would be spotted by features such as nominative absolutes, datives showing up in all sorts of places, redundant prepositions, and replacement of certain verb inflections by auxiliary verbs.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Latin a Dead Language? 2007

  • Finally in datives ending in pure iota with a penultimate of alpha the same is done, as [Greek omitted], “horn,”

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Again, see whether the genus and the species be used in the same way in respect of the inflexions they take, e.g. datives and genitives and all the rest.

    Topics 2002

  • I recall how often I have felt a thrill of pride as I have ladled out deliberative subjunctives, ethical datives, and hysteron proteron to my

    Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

  • For the datives see the note on 13, 16. 20. tertium, the adverb.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • [49] Respecting the meaning of these genitives, for which datives also might have been used, see Zumpt, S 662.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • [E] Elmsley, on Heracl. 852, more simply regards the datives σοι σηι τ 'αδελφη as dependent upon επισεισω, understanding ‛ ωστε δουναι δικην.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • It is difficult to differ from the commentator, but it seems that genitives in the verse as are used for datives, in which case the meaning would be that they who give unto such persons shall also sink into hell.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • To me such an experience is what my neighbor John calls "growing weather," and at such a time the bigness of the affair causes me to forget for the time that there are such things as double datives.

    Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

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