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Genitive: value/price as modifier

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noun phrase
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genitive
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value / price

ἱερὰ τριῶν ταλάντων

‘offerings worth three talents’ (Lys. 30.20)

The genitive signals a value or price as a modifier with a noun.

Example Sentences: 

χῑλίων δραχμῶν δίκην φεύγω

I'm being persecuted for a thousand drachmas. [provisional translation] ֍

Dem. 55.25

λαβὼν πεντήκοντα ταλάντων στέφανον καὶ δισμυρίους κριθῶν μεδίμνους καὶ δισμυρίους πυρῶν, προσεδέξατο τούτους εἰς τὴν φιλίαν.

When he had been given a wreath of fifty talents and twenty thousand medimni of grain and barley, he guided them towards friendship (with the Romans).

Plb. 21.36.4

References

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