Greek Grammar Rules: Drawn Up For The Use Of Harrow School

Excerpt from Greek Grammar Rules: Drawn Up for the Use of Harrow School
N.b. The Genitive Absolute is originally a causal Genitive, and is used, as in Latin, in connexion with Participles. It is there fore a genitive of ablation, and so resembles the Latin Ablative Absolute. It derives its temporal and other meamngs from the Participle with which it is joined. It is less frequent than the Latin Ablative Absolute, because the Greek possesses past participles active and the Latin does not. Thus rafira enema drfipsv would be in Latin His dictis.'