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Thvcydidea

PART II. MISCELLANEOUS EMENDATIONS (continued).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

H. Richards
H. Richards
Affiliation:
Wadham College Oxford
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Read just as has been corrected. The rain was still falling.

7. 2. Two points may be urged against the MS. reading. First is an extremely awkward construction, if it means that they gave, not received, the order. In Thucydides the dative is quite rare in this use with passives, except of course with perfect tenses, and the cases in which it most often occurs will not be compared with this by any competent scholar (e.g. ). But special awkwardness arises from the fact that naturally takes a dative of a quite different kind, and that in this sentence such a dative is actually added.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1913 , pp. 243 - 255
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1913

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