"Dative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cases in each number, (that is, six of one and half a dozen of the other) but can only be put in one of them at a time. They are thus ticketed— nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, ...
— The Comic Latin Grammar - A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue • Percival Leigh
... be the sense of [Greek: mantis ennoia]. Blomfield would add [Greek: ennoia] to the dative, which ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus
... Grammarians often give the names— Nominative case for the Subject pronouns Accusative " " " Direct object pronouns Dative " " " Indirect ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... "al" in this sense, approaching that of "por" but less purposeful and definite, resembles the "dative of reference" and "ethical dative" of other languages, as in French "je me suis brule la langue", I have burned my tongue, German "ich wasche mir die Haende", I wash my hands, Latin "sese Caesari ad pedes proicerunt", they threw themselves at the feet of Caesar, Greek "ti soi ...
— A Complete Grammar of Esperanto • Ivy Kellerman
... the languages of Western Europe. Again, the Slav tongues decline many more of the numerals than most Aryan languages. Germany, which, until the recent formation of the German Empire, was undoubtedly a century slow by West European time, still has four cases; or, in view of the moribund dative, should we rather say three and a half? France and England manage their affairs in a universal nominative[1] (if one can give any name to a universal case), as far as nouns, adjectives, and articles are concerned. Their pronouns offer the ...
— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark
... o'clock?" 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. Oh! it's nothing to boast of, but we did drink them under the table, it can't be denied. Janet heard of it. Hulloa! you talk of a hunting-knife. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... Plato's opinion elsewhere, and in the Greek instead of [Greek omitted] should it be written [Greek omitted], taking the dative case instead of the genitive, so that the stars will not be said to be instruments, but the bodies of animals? So Aristotle has defined the soul to be "the actualization of a natural organic body, having the power of life." The sense then ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... is the dative of investiture as well as means, and is Paul's declaration that what he is writing to the Thessalonians are not his ideas, clothed in his own language, but ideas and thoughts whose investiture, whose very clothing, is no less than the word ...
— Christ, Christianity and the Bible • I. M. Haldeman
... capitals give us such entries as feriae Iovi, feriae Saturno, i.e. the name of a deity to whom a festival was sacred, the foundation days of temples, generally with the name of the deity in the dative and the position of the temple in the city, and certain ludi and memorial days, which belong to a much later age than the original festivals. But the names of those which are inscribed in large ...
— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler |
