Grammatical construction of Greek, equivalent to a circumstantial subordinate sentence and similar to the absolute ablative of Latin. The subject agrees in everything with the verb in genitive of a participle but this subject will have to be different from that of the verb of the main sentence. It can be translated by a gerund or by an adverbial subordinate sentence. For example: Alexandros thanontos , panta etarachthe : When Alexander died, everything fell apart.
