Accusative Absolute - Greek

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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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