[*] 144. Causative active. As in other languages, the subject is said to do what it causes to be done, qui facit per alium, facit per se. “ἡ βουλὴ ἔδησε” (sc. “αὐτούς”), XEN. Hell. 1.7.3; The senate put them in jail. LYS.12.23: “τὸν ἀδελφὸν γάρ μου, ὥσπερ καὶ πρότερον εἶπον, Ἐρατοσθένης ἀπέκτεινεν” (Polemarchos drank the cup at the command of the Thirty, l.c. § 17). PLATO , Meno 94 C: “Θουκυδίδης αὖ δύο υἱεῖς ἔθρεψε . . . καὶ τούτους ἐπαίδευσε τά τε ἄλλα εὖ καὶ ἐπάλαισαν κάλλιστα Ἀθηναίων”, et sim. alib. XEN. An. 1.4.10: “Κῦρος δ᾽ αὐτὸν” (sc. “τὸν παράδεισον”) “ἐξέκοψε καὶ τὰ βασίλεια κατέκαυσεν”. Hell. 1.7.3 (see above). HDT.8.118: “ὡς δὲ ἐκβῆναι τάχιστα ἐς γῆν τὸν Ξέρξην . . . ἀποταμεῖν τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ” (sc. “τοῦ κυβερνήτου”). For Intransitive Verbs of Passive Signification, see 171.
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