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1301. With persons the genitive may denote the relation of child to parent, wife to husband, and of inferior to superior: Θουκυ_δίδης Ὀλόρου Thucydides, the son of Olorus T. 4.104 (and so υιός is regularly omitted in Attic official documents), Διὸς Ἄρτεμις Artemis, daughter of Zeus S. Aj. 172, ““ Σμι_κυθίωνος ΜελιστίχηMelistiche wife of SmicythionAr. Eccl. 46, Αυ_δὸς Φερεκλέους Lydus, the slave of Pherecles And. 1.17, ““οἱ Μένωνοςthe troops of MenonX. A. 1.5.13 (οἱ τοῦ Μένωνος στρατιῶται 1. 5. 11).

a. In poetry we may have an attributive adjective: Τελαμώνιος Αἴα_ς ( = Αἴα_ς Τελαμῶνος) B 528. Cp. 846 f.

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