# dickey's prose comp: chapter eight

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The sentence to translate into English is: ἐπορεύετο σὺν ᾗ εἶχε δυνάμει.  
I translated: “He was traveling with the woman whom he had (obtained) by force.”  
This turned out to be not at all what Dickey meant.Yet I’m wondering whether this sentence can have, also, the meaning I saw in it; and if not, why. Thanks in advance for your help.

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δυνάμει means “power”. “Force” would be βιαι (dative, with adscript).

Your translation is very unnatural. One would expect some noun with ᾗ, e.g., γυναικι, and in its absence, ᾗ goes naturally with δυνάμει. In any event, two datives would be confusing.

εἶχε, imperfect, in your version would mean “he was holding”, not “he had obtained”.

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**Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/dickeys-prose-comp-chapter-eight/15338/3 "2017-09-30T19:13:21Z")

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The exercise is on pg. 93. Dickey says to "translate the following into English, then rewrite them in Greek with “normal” (unattracted, antecedents expressed) relative clauses. Her solution in the back is:

He marched with the force that he had. ἐπορεύετο σὺν τῇ δυνάμει ἣν εἶχεν.

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**Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/dickeys-prose-comp-chapter-eight/15338/4 "2017-09-30T20:14:39Z")

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Thanks a lot! Apparently I was confused about the force of δύναμις here. LSJ gives a variety of meanings.