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6. Nominative in citations, enumerations, and indefinite predications.

Under the former head more properly belongs also the use of the so-called nominative absolute in the citation of names, in enumerations, and in indefinite predications.

ἀνὴρ δὲ γενόμενος προσείληφε τὴν τῶν πονηρῶν κοινὴν ἐπωνυμίαν συκοφάντης,AESCHIN. 2.99 ; When he became a man, he received the common surname of scoundrels, i. e. sycophant (informer).

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