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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 4:01 pm
[size=150]οὔ τις )αχαιῶν πρόφρων πείσεται ἔπεσιν )αγαμέμνονι ἀναιδείην ἐπιειμένῳ καὶ κερδαλεόφρονι[/size]
I think the gist of this line is something like; No one of the Achaeans will eagerly obey the words of Agamemnon who is clothed in shamelessness, and crafty.
I don't understand why Agamemnon is in the dative case.
πείθομαι takes an object in the dative, that explains ἔπεσιν.
They are the words of Agamemnon, so why is αγαμέμνονι dative instead of genitive?
If I understand why Agamemnon is dative I may understand the next two datives as well. My quess is that they are in apposition to Agamemnon, ie; the one clothed in shamelessness and the sly one.
I think the gist of this line is something like; No one of the Achaeans will eagerly obey the words of Agamemnon who is clothed in shamelessness, and crafty.
I don't understand why Agamemnon is in the dative case.
πείθομαι takes an object in the dative, that explains ἔπεσιν.
They are the words of Agamemnon, so why is αγαμέμνονι dative instead of genitive?
If I understand why Agamemnon is dative I may understand the next two datives as well. My quess is that they are in apposition to Agamemnon, ie; the one clothed in shamelessness and the sly one.