[*] 569. Prepositional Phrases: DEM.19.330(= [26]DEM., 23): “ἐν ἀγορᾷ”, but 27.58: “ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ”. 19.330 (=23.130): “ἐν πρυτανείῳ”. AESCHIN.1.43: “ἐν ἄστει”. 2.125: “μεθ᾽ ἡμέραν”. 3.143: “κατὰ θάλατταν . . . κατὰ γῆν”. LYS.12.16 (568). 13.24: “εἰς ἄστυ” , but 81: “εἰς τὸ ἄστυ” . 31.8: “ἐν ἀγρῳ̈,” but ibid.: “οἱ ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν.” ANDOC.1.8: “ἐξ ἀρχῆς. 45: ἐν ἄστει ... εἰς τὴν ἀγοράν ... εἰς ἀκρόπολιν . . . εἰς τὸ πρυτανεῖον”. PLATO, Crat. 440E: “εἰς ἀγρόν”. Gorg. 447 B: “ἐν ἀγορᾷ”. Legg. 844 C: “ἐν ἄστει ... ἐν ἀγρῷ”. Menex. 234 A: “ἐξ ἀγορᾶς” (twice). Phaedr. 227 B: “ἐν ἄστει”, in town, but Rpb. 327 B: “ἀπῇμεν πρὸς τὸ ἄστυ”, towards the city. Theaet. 142 A: “ἐξ ἀγροῦ ... κατ᾽ ἀγοράν ... κατὰ πόλιν ... εἰς λιμένα”. “χεν. ἅμα ἡμέρᾳ” (“κνέφᾳ, δείλῃ, μετοπώρῳ, μεσημβρίᾳ”), “μέχρι δείλης, πρὸς ἡμέραν, πρὸ ἡμέρας, ἅμ᾽ ἡλίῳ ἀνέχοντι, ἅμα ἡλίῳ ἀνατέλλοντι” (“δύνοντι”), “ἀμφὶ” (“περὶ”) “ἡλίου δυσμάς, ἀφ᾽ ἑσπέρας, διὰ νυκτός, περὶ” (“ἀμφὶ”) “μέσας νύκτας, ἀμφὶ μέσον ἡμέρας, ἐν μέσῳ, κατὰ μέσον, ἀμφὶ” (“περὶ”） “ἀγορὰν πλήθουσαν, ἀμφὶ δορπηστόν” (“δείλην, κνέφας”), “ἅμα ὄρθρῳ, κατὰ γῆν, κατὰ θάλατταν, ἐπὶ γῆς, εἰς γῆν, παρὰ γῆν, ἀπὸ θαλάττης, ἐν” (“ἐπὶ, παρὰ”) “θαλάττῃ, ἐπὶ” (“παρὰ”） “θάλατταν, ἐν δεξιᾷ, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ, ἐξ ἀριστερᾶς, ἐπὶ δόρυ, παρ᾽ ἀσπίδα, ἀπὸ ἵππου, ἐκ χώρας, κατὰ χώραν, ἐκ χειρός, ἔξω βελῶν, πρὸ θεῶν, σὺν θεοῖς, ἐν νῷ” (“μάχῃ, πολέμῳ, ῥυθμῷ, ὁρμῇ”), “ἐπὶ θανάτῳ” (“γάμῳ, πολέμῳ”), “ἐπὶ θάνατον” (“πόλεμον, μάχην, δεῖπνον, ξένια, σταθμόν”), “εἰς μάχην” (“πόλεμον, ἀγοράν, κρίσιν”), “παρὰ πότον, πρὸς αὐλόν”, are some of the prepositional phrases used in Xenophon according to Joost, Sprachgebrauch Xenophons, pp. 66-8, which see for particulars. THUC.4.109.1: “κατέσκαψαν . . . ἐς ἔδαφος. 6.2.2: τὰ πρὸς ἑσπέραν 5: τὰ πρὸς βορρᾶν. 6: κατὰ θάλασσαν. 6.6.2: καὶ κατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλασσαν. 7.2: ὑπὸ . . . νύκτα. 8.1: ἅμα ἦρι”. AR. Ach. 21: “ἐν ἀγορᾷ”, and so often, but Ach. 728: “ἐν τἀγορᾷ”, and so elsewhere. Eq. 267: “ἐν πόλει” (= “ἀκροπόλει”). Nub. 69: “πρὸς πόλιν” (= “ἀκροπολιν”). For statistics of local expressions, see Starkie on Vesp. 492.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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