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Dative: property or manner
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ἡ δὲ δίκην ἐπεκάθητο τῷ ταύρῳ πλεούσης νεώς, ὥσπερ ἱστίῳ τῷ πέπλῳ χρωμένη.
‘Thus she sat on the bull as if on a sailing ship; she used her robe as a sail.’ (Ach. Tat. 1.12)
The dative signals a property or means as an object agreeing with another object.
Lexical usage
This especially concerns verbs such as χράομαί (τινί) τινί ‘to use (something) as...’.
Example Sentences:
διὰ γὰρ τὴν πονηρίαν αὐτοῦ οὔτε φίλῳ οὔτε ἐχθρῷ πώποτε ἐχρησάμην αὐτῷ
Because of his wickedness, I never dealt with him, neither as a friend nor as an enemy. [provisional translation]