dativus

The "mir" might be, as I would understand it, added as a sort of dativus ethicus to mean something like "in my presence" or "affecting me", and not so much "beating on me".

languagehat.com: BORN TO KVETCH. 2005

I think Lyle is correct about the dativus ethicus, though the phrase seems somehow incongruous in a discussion of Yiddish.

languagehat.com: BORN TO KVETCH. 2005

[102] Sallust might have said _hujus imperii_, but he prefers the dative, which is a dativus incommodi.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

[351] _Imperatori_, a dativus incommodi, _cui poena imponantur_, 'that with his assistance he should endeavour to find punishments for the general in return for the insults offered to him.'

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

"If any one had no tutor at all" one was assigned by certain magistrates and termed tutor dativus (ibid., t. xx).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Greek, but apparently not with eis, nor yet in the canonical O.T. Deissmann, however, attempts to shew that this use of eis, instead of ’dativus commodi,’ is an Alexandrian idiom (Bible Studies, Eng. tr.,

The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

Hengstenberg indeed, and Bengel before him, on the strength of this dative, a dativus commodi as they regard it, united with the fact that didaskein habitually governs an accusative of the person who is the object of the teaching (thus ver.

Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

It corresponds to our English phrase "to run up."] [Footnote 573: _I. e._ he continues to do so, and will, till his death.] [Footnote 574: Σφίσι is the dativus commodi.] "O son, why weepest thou, and what sorrow has come upon thy mind?

The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840