Greek
In ancient Greek, the accusative case is used adverbially with participles of impersonal verbs. It is similar in usage to the genitive absolute. For example:
| συνδόξαν | τῷ | πατρὶ | καὶ | τῇ | μητρὶ | γαμεῖ | τὴν | Κυαξάρου | θυγατέρα |
| seeming good-acc | the-masc.dat.sg | father-dat | and | the-fem.dat.sg | mother-dat | marries | the-fem.acc.sg | Cyaxares-gen | daughter-acc |
| "It seeming good to his father and mother, he marries the daughter of Cyaxares." (Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.5.28) | |||||||||
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