A Dative.
ADjectives that betoken Profit or Disprofit, Likeness or Unlikeness, Fitness, Pleasure, Submitting, or Belonging to any thing, require a Dative; as Labor est utilis corpori. Aequalis Hectori. Idoneus bello. Jucundus omnibus. Parenti supplex. Mihiproprium.
But such as betoken Profit or Disprofit have somtimes an Accusative with a Preposition; as Homo ad nullam partem utilis. Cic. Inter se aequales.
And some Adjectives signifying Likeness, Un∣likeness, or Relation, may have a Genitive. Par hujus. Ejus culpae affines. Domini similis es. Com∣mune onimantium est conjunctionis appetitus. Alienum dignitatis ejus. Cic. Fin. 1. Fuit hoc quondam proprium populi Romani longè a domo bollare. But propior and proximus admit somtimes an Accusative; as proxi∣mus Pompeium sedebam. Cic.