by C. S. Bartholomew » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:10 pm
We would not expect any special behavior relative to case form. In other words, the same principles that apply to relative pronouns and adjectives generally, with special attention to some complications in relative pronouns commonly referred to as “attraction.” If the relative clause binds closely with the "main clause" (where the antecedent is found) functioning as a virtual adjective, quite often the relative pronoun will have the same case as the antecedent. Where the relative clause has a more independent status, functioning as a separate sentence then the relative pronoun will take a case that represents its syntactical function within the relative clause. This is not a simple matter, reading Guy Cooper and Herbert W. Smyth over the weekend I was once again impressed by the complexity of the issue.
The best I could come up with for your example is Thucydides 8.2.4 τοιούτων ... οἷος
[4] With these reasons for confidence in every quarter, the Lacedaemonians now resolved to throw themselves without reserve into the war considering that, once it was happily terminated, they would be finally delivered from such dangers as that which would have threatened them from Athens, if she had become mistress of Sicily, and that the overthrow of the Athenians would leave them in quiet enjoyment of the supremacy over all Hellas.
[4] πανταχόθεν τε εὐέλπιδες ὄντες ἀπροφασίστως ἅπτεσθαι διενοοῦντο τοῦ πολέμου, λογιζόμενοι καλῶς τελευτήσαντος αὐτοῦ κινδύνων τε τοιούτων ἀπηλλάχθαι ἂν τὸ λοιπὸν οἷος καὶ ὁ ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀθηναίων περιέστη ἂν αὐτούς, εἰ τὸ Σικελικὸν προσέλαβον, καὶ καθελόντες ἐκείνους αὐτοὶ τῆς πάσης Ἑλλάδος ἤδη ἀσφαλῶς ἡγήσεσθαι.
τοιούτων agrees with κινδύνων “such dangers” which construe with the infinitive ἀπηλλάχθαι as the metaphorical place from which they are delivered. οἷος functions as the subject of a clause “that which would have threatened them from Athens.”
C. Stirling Bartholomew
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