Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, chapter 1398

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[*] 1398. δέομαι I want, request may take the genitive, or the accusative (regularly of neuter pronouns and adjectives), of the thing wanted; and the genitive of the person: ἐρωτώμενος ὅτου δέοιτο, Ἀσκῶν, ἔφη, δισχι_λίων δεήσομαι being asked what he needed, he said ‘I shall have need of two thousand skins’ X. A. 3.5.9, ““τοῦτο ὑ_μῶν δέομαι” I ask this of you” P. A. 17c. The genitive of the thing and of the person is unusual: ““δεόμενοι Κύ_ρου ἄλλης ἄλλης πρά_ξεως” petitioning Cyrus about different matters” X. C. 8.3.19.

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