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Accusative: direction as satellite
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ἥξεις δ' Ὑβριστὴν ποταμὸν οὐ ψευδώνυμον.
‘Then you will reach the Restless River, which is not so called for nothing.’ (Aesch. Prom. 717)
In poetry the accusative signals a direction with verbs indicating movement or orientation.
Lexical usage
Words in the accusative
This usually involves common nouns which refer to a physical location or social gatherings (e.g. βούλη ‘assembly’).
Syntactic usage
In prose one uses a preposition (e.g. εἰς, πρός or ἐπί) or the suffix -δε.
The word in the accusative is usually accompanied by a modifier.
In Homer and in the lyrical sections of tragedies (i.e. in de choral odes) even persons may be put in the accusative of direction.