[*] 24. Vocative in exclamations. The vocative may be used in exclamations. “Ἡράκλεις” DEM.9.31 ; Herakles! DEM. 19.308: “Ἡράκλεις” . 21.66: the same. 22.78: “ὦ γῆ καὶ θεοί” ; also at 24.186, 39.21, 40.5. PLATO, Prot. 310D: “ὦ Ζεῦ καὶ θεοί” . XEN. Mem.1.3.12: “ὦ Ἡράκλεις” . AR. Nub. 153: “ὦ Ζεῦ βασιλεῦ” . Ibid. 184: “ὦ Ἡράκλεις” . Vesp. 143: “ἄναξ Πόσειδον” . Ibid. 161: “Ἄπολλον ἀποτρόπαιε” . Ibid. 420: “Ἡράκλεις” . Pl. 374: “ὦ Ἡράκλεις” . EUR. Med. 764: “ὦ Ζεῦ Δίκη τε Ζηνὸς Ἡλίου τε φῶς” . SOPH. El. 1466: “ὦ Ζεῦ” . O. C. 221, 532. O. R. 1198. AESCHYL. Ag. 1257: “ὀτοτοῖ, Λύκεἰ Ἄπολλον, οἲ ἐγὼ ἐγώ” . ALCMAN, fr. 29, Bgk.4: “Ζεῦ πάτερ, αἰ γὰρ ἐμὸς πόσις εἴη”. HOM. Od. 4.341: “Ζεῦ τε πάτερ καὶ Ἀθηναίη καὶ Ἄπολλον” (not real prayers). Il. 2.371: similarly
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