I am perplexed by this line in Reading Greek 18 unadapted text from Plato’s Protagoras ἀπορίᾳ οὖν σχόμενος ὁ Προμηθεὺς ἥντινα σωτηρίαν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ εὕροι,…The note says that the aorist mid. ptcp means “being in” with the dative. I probably could have guessed from the context that it means being in doubt, but I cannot find the sense of “being” in LSJ. Can anybody tell me where?
Looking at the LSJ article for εχω, I see A.1.8 beginning with “of Habits, States, or Conditions, bodily or mental…”. It has examples of a usage with the dative, classified as passive, including Th.1.25, very similar to this. Passive instead of middle would motivate the dative and explain the usage/meaning.
The απορια article gives examples of the usage, but doesn’t explain it.
Thank you. That’s very helpful. I looked up the quotation from Thucydides and I see that εἴχοντο could be middle or passive whereas here in my passage σχόμενος can only be middle. So I skipped over section A in LSJ and confined my attention to C, the middle. However, I did notice that earlier in the entry it does say that aor. 2 Med. in passive sense and gives the participle. I see that I have a lot to learn about how to use the LSJ.