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Nominative: result or property as (agreeing) argument
καὶ μέγας Ἀντίοχος ἀπὸ τοῦδε κληθείς
‘And for this reason he was called Antiochus the Great.’ (App. Syr. 1)
The nominative signals a result or property as an argument, agreeing with the subject.
Lexical usage
Result
With verbs such as αἱρέομαι ‘to be chosen as’, ὀνομάζομαι ‘to be called’ etc.
Property
Not only with the (passive) verbs νομίζομαι, ποιέομαι, τίθεμαι ‘to be regarded as’, but also with verbs such as φαίνομαι ‘to appear’.
Syntactic usage
In many cases this involves passive constructions in which the agreeing object is put in the nominative, just like the ‘original’ object, which has been converted to the subject. For example, the sentence ὁ Βάκχιος θεὸς νομίζεται ‘Bacchios is regarded as a god’ can be considered a passivisation of τὸν Βάκχιον θεὸν νομίζω ‘I regard Bacchios as a god’.