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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4532897, member: 89514&quot;]Thanks for the correction! &quot;For&quot; seems to me quite a good translation for the dative case in Trajan&#039;s legend, where the verb is left out.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As to further context, I don&#039;t think anyone has ever doubted the meaning of Trajan&#039;s common reverse legend SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI, where SPQR is clearly the subject so in the nominative case, while OPTIMO PRINCIPI is in the dative case and is apparently an indirect object, defined thus by Google: &quot;a noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a transitive verb (typically as a recipient), but is not the primary object (e.g. <i>him</i> in <i>give him the book</i> ).&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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