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[*] 72. Subject contained in the verb. The subject is sometimes omitted in the third person, when it may be involved in the verb as the definite function of a definite character. “ἐκήρυξεν”, he proclaimed (“ὁ κῆρυξ”), etc. In a suit at law, the clerk is often addressed without any further note. In dramatic passages, a servant is often supposed to be at hand. “ἀναγνώτω” (sc. “ὁ γραμματεύς”), DEM. [44]. 45; Let (the clerk) read. “ἐπεὶ ἐσάλπιγξε ῾σξ. “ὁ σαλπιγκτής”᾿, προβαλλόμενοι τὰ ὅπλα ἐπῇσαν,” XEN. An. 1.2.17 ; When the trumpet sounded, etc. DEM. [44]DEM., 45(see above). LYS.19.27: “ἃ δὲ κατέλιπεν ῾σξ. “ὁ Ἀριστοφάνης”）,ἀναγνώσεται ῾σξ. “ὁ γραμματεύς”） ὑμῖν” . Ibid. 57. XEN. An. 1.2.17 (see above). 2.2.4: “ἐπειδὰν . . . σημήνῃ” . 3.4.4: “ἐσήμηνε” . Ibid. 36: “ἐκήρυξε” . 5.2.12: “ὁπόταν σημήνῃ” (twice). 6.5.25: “ἕως σημαίνοι” . Conv. 5.2: “μόνον, ἔφη, τὸν λαμπτῆρα ἐγγὺς προσενεγκάτω” . Cyr. 2.2.2: “ἤρξατο” (sc. “ὁ ἄρταμος”). 4.5.42: “κηρυξάτω” . THUC.3.21.3: “ὥστε πάροδον μὴ εἶναι, ἀλλὰ δἰ αὐτῶν μέσων διῇσαν” (sc. “οἱ διιόντες”) = those who had to go through = “οἱ φύλακες”. HDT.2.47: “ἐπεὰν θύσῃ”. 2.70: “ἐπεὰν . . . δελεάσῃ”. COM. 3.502: “τὴν τράπεζαν ἧκ᾽ ἔχων” (sc. “ὁ δοῦλος”). PIND. P. 1.48: “ἁνίχ᾽ εὑρίσκοντο θεῶν παλάμαις τιμάν”, Hiero cum fratribus. THEOGN. 473: “οἰνοχοείτω”. HOM. Od. 4.214: “χευάντων” (sc. “θεράποντες”). 21.142: “οἰνοχοεύει” (sc. “ὁ οἰνοχόος”). Il. 18.492-3: “νύμφας” . . . | “ἠγίνευν” (sc. “νυμφαγωγοί”).
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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