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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.
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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.
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Finally in datives ending in pure iota with a penultimate of alpha the same is done, as [Greek omitted], “horn,”
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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.
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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
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For the datives see the note on 13, 16. 20. tertium, the adverb.
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[49] Respecting the meaning of these genitives, for which datives also might have been used, see Zumpt, S 662.
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[E] Elmsley, on Heracl. 852, more simply regards the datives σοι σηι τ 'αδελφη as dependent upon επισεισω, understanding ‛ ωστε δουναι δικην.
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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
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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.
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