This text is part of:
View text chunked by:
[*] 159. Agent. The agent of the passive is put in the genitive with “ὑπό”. “οἱ . . . τύραννοι . . . ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων κατελύθησαν”, THUC.1.18.1; Tyrants were abolished by the Lacedaemonians. DEM.21.36: “ὑπὸ Πολυζήλου πληγῆναι”. 21.74: “ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὑπ̓ ἐχθροῦ . . . ὑβριζόμην”. [47]DEM., 15: “ἐπλήγης ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ”. 54.33: “ὑφ᾽ οὗ γε πρώτου τ᾽ ἐπλήγην καὶ μάλισθ̓ ὑβρίσθην”. PLATO, Conv. 217E: “ἔτι δὲ τὸ τοῦ δηχθέντος ὑπὸ τοῦ ἔχεως πάθος κἀμὲ ἔχει”. XEN. An. 1.3.10: “νομίζει ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἠδικῆσθαι”. THUC.1.18.1(see above). 4.12.1: “ἀνεκόπη ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀθηναίων” . HDT.1.35: “ἐξεληλαμένος . . . ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός”. AR. Av. 285: “ὑπὸ τῶν συκοφαντῶν τίλλεται” . SOPH. Ai. 164: “ὑπὸ τοιούτων ἀνδρῶν θορυβῇ” . PIND. N. 2.20-2: “ἀλλὰ Κορινθίων ὑπὸ φωτῶν . . . ὀκτὼ στεφάνοις ἔμιχθεν ἤδη”. HOM. Od. 9.66: “Κικόνων ὕπο δῃωθέντες”. Il. 13.675-6: “δηιόοντο” | “λαοὶ ὑπ᾽ Ἀργεΐων”. For the so-called Dative of the Agent with the Passive and with Verbals, see Dative.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.