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[*] 1040. The predicate adjective is employed a. With intransitive verbs signifying to be, become, and the like (917): ““ἡ δὲ χάρις ἄδηλος γεγένηται” the favour has been concealed” Aes. 3.233. So with active verbs which take a preposition: ““νόμους ἔθεσθε ἐπ᾽ ἀδήλοις τοῖς ἀδικήσουσι” you have enacted laws with regard to offenders who are unknown” D. 21.30. b. With transitive verbs: (1) to qualify the object of the verb directly and immediately: ““τοὺς κακοὺς χρηστοὺς νομίζειν” to judge bad men good” S. O. T. 609, (2) to express the result of the action (the proleptic use, 1579). So with αὔξειν grow, αἴρειν raise with μέγας great, μετέωρος on high, ὑψηλός high, μακρός large.
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