If I want to say gold is sweeter than honey using a genitive of comparison construction, would I say Χρυσός μέλίτος ἡδίων or Χρυσός μέλίτος ἡδίονος and why? Thanks!
I’d say the answer is χρυσός μέλίτος ἡδίων. The adjective (comparative) is in the nominative, agreeing with the subject, χρυσός.
In these two examples from the LXX (Judg 14:18), the subject in each case is the interrogative pronoun (nominative singular, neuter) τί, and the adjective is in the nominative in agreement with it:
τί γλυκύτερον μέλιτος καὶ τί ἰσχυρότερον λέοντος
Thanks that helps. I was trying to understand this example from CGCG 30.24:
(φῃς) Σιμμίαν Σωκρατους . . . μείζω εῖναι, Φαίδωνος δὲ ἐλάττω (Pl. Phd. 102b)
and now I see that since Σιμμίαν is in the accusative (because of φῃς) that’s why μείζω is also in the accusative.