στέργειν, absol., cp. 519, Dem. De Cor. § 112 “εἰ δέ φησιν οὖτος, δειξάτω, κἀγὼ στέρξω καὶ σιωπήσομαι”: usu. with accus., as Ph. 538 “ἀνάγκῃ προὔμαθον στέργειν κακά”. Like στέργειν, αἰνεῖν is sometimes absol. in this sense ( Eur. Suppl. 388 “κἂν μὲν θέλωσιν αἰνέσαι”), but ἀγαπᾶν almost always takes a clause with ὅτι, εἰ or ἐάν (
), or an accus. αἱ πάθαι: Her. 1 207 “τὰ δέ μοι παθήματα ἐόντα ἀχάριτα μαθήματα γέγονε”:
ὁ χρόνος, the time (through which I live), attending on me (ξυνών) in long course (μακρός). Cp. O. T. 963 (Polybus died of disease) “καὶ τῷ μακρῷ γε συμμετρούμενος χρόνῳ”, “"and of the long years which he had told."” For ξυνών cp. O. T. 863 “εἴ μοι ξυνείη...μοῖρα”: Ai. 622 “παλαιᾷ... ἔντροφος ἁμέρᾳ”:
.