47; [Greek: kat' etos], ii. 41; [Greek: kata] with peculiar genitive of place, iv. 14 (xxiii. 5) [Endnote 224:1].

The southern doctrine, that Congress is to the District a mere local Legislature to do its pleasure, is tumbled from the genitive into the vocative!

The genitive after [Greek: marturia] may be either subjective or objective'the testimony borne by' or 'the testimony borne to or of' the aged Zacharias.

This is the proper meaning of the Greek text above; but the construction is different, the Greek nouns being genitives in apposition.

Nor does the Latin gerund often govern the genitive like a noun, or ever stand as the direct object of a transitive verb, except in some few doubtful instances about which the grammarians dispute.