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Genitive: place as satellite
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ἐσχάτης δ’ ὁρῶ | πυρᾶς νεώρη βόστρυχον τετμημένον
‘’ (Soph. El. 900-901)
The genitive signals a place as a satellite. This is mostly a matter of epic and poetic language.
Lexical usage
Many adverbs of place are in origin genitives: ποῦ; ‘where?’, αὐτοῦ ‘there’, οὐδαμοῦ ‘nowhere’. The genitive of place may, in its turn, accompany an adverb of place (although when it does so it is often interpreted as a genitive of totality).
Historical background
This usage seems to have its origin in the genitive of totality, i.e. the genitive of the whole; the adverbs of place, however, seem to have originated from the genitive of source (Brucale 2014).
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