Antigone lines 7 and 8

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From Antigone, lines 7 and 8.

καὶ νῦν τί τοῦτ’ αὖ φασι πανδήμω πόλει
κήρυγμα θεῖναι τὸν στρατηγὸν ἀρτίως ;

Does φασι here take 2 objects, τὸν στρατηγὸν and also τί τοῦτ’ ?
Can the accusative τὸν στρατηγὸν then govern the infinitive θεῖναι ?
Thank you for your input.

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With φασι, it’s indirect speech. τον στρατηγον is the subject; θειναι is the infinitive verb; κηρυγμα is the direct object;

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The noun in the accusative is the subject? I thought all subject nouns are nominative. Wow. I will look for this grammatical rule as related to indirect speech. Thank you.

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The subject of an infinitive is usually accusative.

5

You are using North and Hillard? See page 50 “Indirect Statement II” The first example is “ὑπέλαβε τὸν Κῦρον οὐ παρεῖναι.”

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Joel.
I was using North and Hilliard. Having discovered the videos covering every chapter/topic in Hansen and Quinn, I switched. I found the information there in section 15 after Hylander’s observation.
But thank you anyway.