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Lesson XLIII, paragraph 283

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:54 am
by GlottalGreekGeek
Lesson XLIII, paragraph 283

ἀφαιρεόμεθα βασιλῆα χρυσηίδα τὸ γέρας καλόν.

I believe this is saying something like "We are robbing [for ourselves] the king of Chryses' daughter, the beautiful prize." What's confusing me is that both βασιλῆα and χρυσηίδα blah blah are in accusative. Is this how it's supposed to be, or is there some meaning (i.e. that Chryses' daughter is a king, which makes little sense in context) that I'm missing. I have a similar problem with the last clause of the last sentence in this exercise.

Re: Lesson XLIII, paragraph 283

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:12 am
by annis
GlottalGreekGeek wrote:Lesson XLIII, paragraph 283

ἀφαιρεόμεθα βασιλῆα χρυσηίδα τὸ γέρας καλόν.

I believe this is saying something like "We are robbing [for ourselves] the king of Chryses' daughter, the beautiful prize." What's confusing me is that both βασιλῆα and χρυσηίδα blah blah are in accusative. Is this how it's supposed to be, or is there some meaning (i.e. that Chryses' daughter is a king, which makes little sense in context) that I'm missing.
Some verbs take two accusatives. "We are taking Chryseis, this beautiful prize, from the king."

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 2:18 am
by GlottalGreekGeek
That's what I thought. Thanks!